It is difficult to find the right yardstick by which to measure success in life. For example, personal, professional and business are weighed differently, often diametrically opposite. It is necessary to look beyond economic gain and happiness and also to evaluate growth, emotional well-being, influence in the community and social interactions.
Steps
Method 1 of 3: Measuring Professional Success
Step 1. Take your income into account, but know that it's not a good yardstick
This is how people often compare their career success. However, money is rarely a criterion of your job fulfillment or the opportunities your position offers.
Step 2. Look at your responsibilities
An increase in responsibilities is usually followed by more income and influence in the company. Draw a graph of your career growth.
Step 3. Weigh your influence and your weight within the company
If you can really play a role in the decision-making stages of your job, then you have achieved great professional success.
Step 4. Check the flexibility of your work
If you can organize yourself flexibly and work from home, it means you have gained confidence and independence. If you have no desire for a managerial position, flexibility can replace influence and power in your success chart.
Step 5. Evaluate your network of professional contacts
Their number is an indicator of your success as an independent individual within your company. The number of favors you can afford to request gives a good idea of your work results.
Method 2 of 3: Measuring Personal Success
Step 1. Start with an overview
If you have a positive feeling about remembering everything you've done in life, then you've probably hit some important personal goals. A sense of "purpose" in life can be applied to both personal and business success.
Step 2. Make a judgment based on your social interactions
A handful of good and trusted friends provide you with all the emotional support you need to have a positive attitude and professional success. As long as you enjoy mutual support and affection, you may not even include your spouse / partner in your social network.
Step 3. Consider your emotional resilience
A person who is able to cope with the challenges of life often achieves greater successes in business, sports and school.
Step 4. Review your health status
If you are healthy it means that you are able to manage stress and lead a good lifestyle. It is a sign of longevity, a valid yardstick for success.
Step 5. Evaluate if you have some influence in your community
Responsibility and social activity make people happier, more empathetic and fulfilled.
Method 3 of 3: Measuring Business Success
Step 1. Start keeping double-entry bookkeeping and an accurate marketing report as soon as you go into business
It is impossible to measure success except by tracking the changes that occur every day, month and year. If you have an online business, make sure the website also has a customer relationship management system.
Step 2. Start with the profits
If you notice that they increase every year, even slightly, it means that your business is successful.
Don't confuse revenue with profitability. While most businesses take revenue into account, there is always a way to increase profit by reducing costs rather than increasing sales
Step 3. Increasing the number of customers is the next step for a successful entrepreneur
As long as your customers increase and with them your sales, your business will grow.
Step 4. Track the wellbeing of your employees
Being able to make employees happy allows you to reduce turnover and at the same time improve customer satisfaction and therefore profits. Graph the years of "loyalty" of your current and past employees.
Step 5. Organize a survey to measure your customer satisfaction
If the customer is happy, he will come back to you. Always try to offer added value, because it is more expensive to gain new customers than to keep historical ones.
