How To Know When You’re Making Progress, Journey of Enlightenment, And More
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Hey everyone! Last week, I asked you to send in your questions. Over the weekend, I compiled and answered YOUR awesome questions, including questions on confidence, decision making, enlightenment, and how to be a coach.
In this episode of The Personal Excellence Podcast, I talk about
- How to know you’re making progress when you’re not seeing results [00:47 ]
- Using success easter eggs to track your progress [01:51 ]
- What to do if you’re not getting any results at all [02:57 ]
- How to make a decision and avoid disappointing someone [04:30 ]
- How to know if you have reached enlightenment [06:57 ]
- My feeling of disillusionment in the past year [08:36 ]
- Your roadmap for your consciousness growth [09:56 ]
- How to be a coach — My tips for you [11:45 ]
- Why coaching courses are merely 0.01% of the equation to be a successful coach [13:08 ]
- How to be confident [16:06 ]
- The ONE thing that’s most important in life – Career? Health? [19:45 ]
- How to be organized and the calendar system I use [22:02 ]
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How To Know When You’re Making Progress, Journey of Enlightenment, And More [Transcript]
Welcome to The Personal Excellence Podcast. The show that’s all about helping you be your best self and live your best life. Now, your host, Celestine Chua!
Celestine Chua: Hey everyone! Welcome to the Personal Excellence Podcast Episode 11. This is Celestine Chua from PersonalExcellence.co.
A few days ago, I sent out an e-mail via the newsletter asking you guys to send me your questions so I can answer them on the podcast. For those of you who are not on the newsletter, do join — it’s at personalexcellence.co/newsletter/. I send updates and messages that I don’t post on the blog.
So, some of you guys have sent in your questions and I’m super excited to answer them. Well, let’s get started!
How to know if you are making progress
“Greetings to you Celes. I want to ask: Sometimes I think I’m doing everything, more than I’m supposed to do to be successful. But it seems like things are not working well for me. My question is: For the goals that you are working towards, how do you know there’s progress? How do you see progress in everything that you do? Thanks.” — Anonymous
This is an excellent question. So how do you know when you are making progress on something you are working on?
I wrote a post before on the 21-day incubation period and I’m going to be sharing links to all these articles I’m talking about in the show notes, so you guys can click to read more. So I wrote this post before on the 21-day incubation period and essentially, for many of our goals, especially for large goals that take a long period to achieve, sometimes it can feel like we are putting in all this effort but we don’t see any progress or results. We wonder: Are we on the right track or are we not? Is something happening?
My recommendation is to know how to spot what I call “success easter eggs.” That would be indicators telling you, “Hey, you’re on the right track and you are doing things right. As long as you do more of this, you will reach the right place.”
What are the kinds of success easter eggs to look out for? It depends on your goal. You should set milestones and little check markers to let you know that you are moving to the right place.
Say you want to start a business. Success easter eggs could be:
- You getting that first customer
- You getting positive feedback from the customers, the few customers you have served, telling you how great your service or your product was and how they would definitely recommend it to other people
So when you start getting this kind of feedback, you know that you’re moving on the right track. And you want to identify the things helping you achieve these results, and to continue these actions and amplify them.
If you’re not getting any kind of results at all, like after you set certain success easter eggs and milestones and you are not achieving them after a certain period of work, it’s good to stop and troubleshoot. Understand what is going on, why there are no results at all — basically do an audit to understand what’s working, what’s not working.
So take a step back and think about:
- What’s the situation right now? What is the goal I want to achieve?
- Where am I right now versus this goal?
- What have I been doing? What’s working what’s not working?
- Maybe identify certain people who have achieved the results you want. What can you learn from them?
By reviewing and learning from your mistakes or the things that you’re not doing well or that’s not working at all, and experimenting with new things, there will be a point when you see those first signs of success. It has to be. Because let’s say that first batch of actions that you took, they are not working, they’re not bringing you to where you want to be.
Then, by elimination and by learning from your role models and success figures in the industry, it will be a matter of time before you get closer to what you want to be and achieve that.
How to avoid disappointing someone
“Hi Celes. This is Sandra from Israel. I would like to ask a question: How to deal with a situation where you want to make a choice, but you avoid choosing what you want because you don’t want to disappoint somebody else. It’s very important and I’m sure you’ll have a good answer. Thank you.” — Sandra, Israel
Hey Sandra, this is an excellent question.
So it seems there are two conflicting factors involved here. First, you want to do what you want. Obviously, all of us should always do what we want. Se
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