252: The Moment I Realized I Was Measuring My Success All Wrong

252: The Moment I Realized I Was Measuring My Success All Wrong

Update: 2025-12-08
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The Moment I Realized I Was Measuring My Success All Wrong - The GAP and the GAIN

Feel like you're never doing enough even when you're crushing it? In this transformative episode, Cindy Gordon reveals why high-achieving entrepreneurs feel constantly behind and how to shift from measuring against impossible horizons to celebrating actual progress. Inspired by Dan Sullivan's gap and gain concept, discover the neuroscience of success measurement.

In this episode, you'll discover:

  • Why you feel behind even when you're winning (the measurement trap)
  • The neuroscience of measuring backward vs. forward
  • How gap thinking triggers stress while gain thinking creates momentum
  • The 3-question Entrepreneur's Gain Journal that changes everything
  • Why comparing to others poisons your actual success
  • How to shift from "I'm behind" to "I'm progressing" identity
  • Specific practices to make gain thinking your default
  • The progress paradox: why celebrating gains helps you achieve goals faster

Perfect for: Overwhelmed entrepreneurs who never feel like they're doing enough, high achievers stuck in constant dissatisfaction, and anyone measuring their worth against moving finish lines.

Key insight: "You're not behind. You're not failing. You're just measuring wrong."

Join 1,500+ entrepreneurs learning gain thinking through Cindy's weekly Reality Check newsletter, and discover how Growth Collective members celebrate progress daily for just $1 a day.

Resources mentioned:

  • The Entrepreneur's Gain Journal
  • Weekly Gain Practice Framework
  • The Growth Collective Membership
  • Reality Check Newsletter

Stop living in the gap. Start living in the gain. Your progress is already remarkable - you just need to see it.

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252: The Moment I Realized I Was Measuring My Success All Wrong

252: The Moment I Realized I Was Measuring My Success All Wrong

Cindy Gordon - Execution Coach | Reality Check Method