Let’s imagine every memory, events, incidents (good, bad, ugly) is a mark that we leave on a blank piece of paper – a dot that can never be erased or corrected. If success is measured by the value each dot impacts your life or someone’s life; possibly now filled with dots, what do you see?
When we reflect on ourselves and evaluate every dots on our piece of paper; ultimately called life, we can either judge ourselves a true failure or a great success. So what did you do; did you calculate your income earned, include emotional value or couldn’t quantify any dot. In retrospect, we tend to judge ourselves through quantifiable values that are unquantifiable.
IMHO, Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) are just numbers that brings no contextual meaning. It’s just used for the sole purpose of quantifying organisational performance to be presented to stakeholders / shareholders / investors.
But people take measurable indicators seriously, I’m not just talking about Work KPIs, there are weight goals, saving goals, financial stability goals, happiness index, etc. This is the main reason we have so many psychological and mental issues that are stress-related. We judge ourselves too much and when we do not meet our own/peers/family/boss expectations, we tend to give up, lose faith and fall in the cracks of failure. Even so, we cannot live in a world without defined expectations, then there is no goals in life.
So how do proceed without killing our motivations or drive to succeed.
Defining a dot is the next milestone you want to reach ..