3 Steps To Accelerate Progress

A main reason that people choose to invest time in their self improvement is because they want to accelerate their progress. They have goals and ambitions to grow their business, get into a healthy and active lifestyle, to make an impact, and they realize the clock is ticking.

What I’m about to share are 3 steps any person can take to accelerate their progress so that they achieve the level of success they know they’re capable of, and it comes from personal experience.

For many years I believed in my heart I was capable of great things, that I was going to do something amazing in the world, but I didn’t have the results to justify it. Month after month falling short of my goals, it made me doubt that I had what it takes to succeed. And it stayed that way until I learned and implemented these 3 steps, and it completely shifted the trajectory of my life.

Step 1) Incorporate daily behavior tracking.

Plain and simple: “You can’t improve what you don’t measure.” Most people aren't doing anything to track their performance and it's the main reason why they're falling short of their goals. It’s the thing keeping them stuck at a plateau. The reason it’s so game-changing is because without the data to know what's working and what's not, improvement is a guessing game.

For something to 'improve' means that it experienced a positive change over time. This requires that you have clear metrics for how things were at the beginning and how they ended up. It’s the direction of progress between those data points that indicates progress, and it’s with that clarity you can guide the direction of your growth.

Step 2) Implement a reliable system of execution

Once you have your tracking in place, now you need to take action in the ways that most influence your results. I bet you already know what you should be doing… You just need to do more of it, do it more consistently, or do it better to get the results you're after.

High-quality, consistent, disciplined follow through comes when you structure your environment to make taking action automatic. Things like an implementation intention, accountability, and systems all help you funnel your time and energy into real action-taking. Saying you're going to take action is usually just an empty promise without an environment backing it up.

Step 3) Optimize your approach with feedback

Back to the original point, feedback is the only thing that actually accelerates progress. It’s the mechanism of incremental improvement because you can take each insight as a clue to the solving the puzzle of being as effective as possible. Without feedback, you don’t change anything about the way you’re taking action and you continue generating the same results.

And good, high-quality feedback requires that you take action and have tracking in place to measure how you did. It's a cycle that leads to optimization: 

Take action → Measure how you did → Make adjustments to your actions + environment → Repeat with a new and improved action.

That is optimization, that’s how you get better results with less effort and in less time, and that’s how you accelerate your progress. But many people don’t know where to start in actually creating meaningful improvement in their life, or are unwilling to do the basic things that generate fast-improvement. I was one of them until I got fed up with disappointing myself and falling short of my goals. 

And that’s when I began my decade long journey of figuring it out for myself. But you can skip that trial and error and implement it all in just three weeks in a step-by-step process I created. It is a self-growth, goal-achieving, best-life accelerator. Check it out here.