What is your benchmark for success?
What is your benchmark for success?
Are you looking to create an organization that Bill Gates or Steve Jobs created, but in 6 months? Are you looking to establish yourself as a coach and have paid clients (Investing Top $$$ with you as a coach) in a few months? Or are you looking to become a coach like Marshall Goldsmith, in 6 months? What is your benchmark for success?
Whether you are looking to start a business, or you want to learn a competency and master it ~ what is an appropriate time frame? This is a question that some of you might be facing in your day-to-day life these days.
What is your reality about the benchmark for success?
You may be someone who has already completed a Coach program, attended the best NLP training in India/Asia, or on the way to becoming a credentialed coach (ICF approved program). This is the bare minimum to get started. The real work, and the difference that makes the difference, is not only about attending the programs but is a sum total of other elements which are a part of who you are and your environmental factors. The starting point about being a successful coach is when you are aware about, ‘What is your benchmark for success?’
Becoming aware of these factors will help you reflect on what is important to you at the moment, and how critical it is for you to pursue what you want to or are currently.
– How much stamina do you have to face difficulties and rejection and criticism (at times), or handle feeling low and desperate at times?
– How much time have you planned for this on a daily basis, whether your business is full time or part-time?
– Perhaps you are setting up your business to serve, and not to make money?
– Or are you trying to set up something as a secondary source of income?
– Are you learning to become more knowledgeable, or are you learning a new competency to make money from it?
– Are you doing this because the whole world seems to be doing it?
– Are you doing it because you feel this is an easy way out?
– What are the quality of your thoughts around this outcome of yours?
– What are your success criteria, or what is your benchmark for success? money, name, fame, contribution, awards, recognition, legacy, impact, or making a difference?
Spend some time to understand if what you want to do is what you really want to do.
– What is the leverage that you have in terms of resources: time, money, training, mentoring?
– How deeply do you believe in what you want to do?
– What is your belief about yourself, while you are pursuing this?
– What are your top values that are guiding you through this process?
– How do you see this business/competency when you think about others in this world?
– How do you want to be remembered?
– Fast forward 10/20/30 years into the future, and reflect on today (which would be the past in that time). What do you tell yourself from that future?
Ensure that you connect your outcome with your highest intention, and have a vision worth pursuing. Then reflect on your progress on a weekly basis, and ensure that you are in this for the long term.
