The Importance of Measuring
This article reviews how one can determine certainty in the world today regarding your beliefs. The primary focus of the article is an argument for taking responsibility for one’s results. It also covers why personal habits fail and present a case for gaining certainty in living your life.
Background
There is a real reason to determine certainty in our world today: measuring helps ensure that. As an example, when we think of manufacturing, we need to be sure that the products we are creating meet the design criteria and safety specifications. Especially when working with critical systems that support transportation: things like engines, aircraft wings, automobile tires, etc. to name a few. Imagine if you will for a moment, dispensing pharmaceuticals without measurements (e.g., how many deaths could occur?) or driving somewhere without knowing how many miles to travel or how far you have gone toward your destination? Unimaginable – yes?
Yet, do we think of our own lives and our own beliefs as such measurable systems? Yes? No? Maybe? And, more importantly, how can we and will we act to measure them, especially when we can learn a simple measuring method? From our experience, we realize that most of us don't even consider this. We are inconceivably bankrupt in the way that we handle our belief systems. We must become willing to take responsibility for our results: which, by the way, are entirely based on our belief systems and relate to our taking personal responsibility for them.
Teaching & Learning Objective
At Choice Awareness Management, we intend to change this condition, which we perceive as personal habits failure because:
1. We don't learn how to create our own beliefs systems,
2. We don't learn how to measure tangibles or intangibles within our own lives,
3. We are not encouraged to measure our successes and adjust our beliefs when we don’t receive the results we designed,
4. We don't learn to think for ourselves and apply our learning in our own lives,
5. We are not taught to make decisions based upon time-tested principles but strive for the average or accepted weak standard,
6. We are guided by our culture to embrace mediocrity, instead of meritocracy
7. Our culture teaches us to be ashamed of striving and excellence
8. We learn that some higher authority knows what’s best for us
Feel free to expand this list with what you know are the teachings in our current declining culture: we believe you will be surprised how much this thinking prevails across our country, in our schools and officials. We want you to drop these ineffective ideas and start creating the life you want for you and your family – anything is possible!!!
Start Measuring Your Life Now and All Things in It
Take a moment to see our CAM Awareness Scale learn how easy it is to accomplish. Then begin to measuring something today.
The Case for Gaining Certainty
You can gain much from measuring things in your life because you will receive new perspectives and knowledge. Knowledge will provide you the “What,” while perspective will deliver you the “Why.”.
Those are effective deliverables, but more than those two essentials, measuring will allow you to receive and gain confidence in your abilities: this is the primary reason for you to engage in this personal discipline.
We will list the top benefits that we believe are delivered you by measuring later in this article, but here is a more detailed explanation of the two identified so far:
Knowledge – learning about your capacity, abilities, and limits (i.e., your What’s), which largely depends upon the specific topics and your beliefs about them (e.g., nutrition, healthy activities, etc.). all of which dramatically affects your thinking, actions, mood, stability, etc.
Perspective – combined with the knowledge, this will allow you to gain the “Why” and understand the importance to you and others. It will help answer the question, “How does this new perspective help me stay on the personal discipline journey and keep doing effective steps in my life?”. You will gain confidence in yourself.
No one else can give you this foundational self-esteem ingredient and supercharge your motivation, except that which you obtain from your own experiences – inspecting and understanding what it means to you is so crucial to your believing.
We suggest that you explore and read all you want about other people’s journeys: gaining from others will inspire your thinking and ideas for you. But remember first to create and have your own beliefs, choices, actions, and results-set with your personal experiences for yourself: it’s the only way to embed your living and vital ideas inside of you.
(Wisdom-Sidebar) Each of our visual displays/images throughout our articles are indented and contains extra information, knowledge, and practical application that you can use for your specific requirements.
Understanding How Beliefs Work For You
Keep in mind also along the way of your experiences, and you will need to gauge how effective your designed beliefs are working for you. You will gain effectiveness by measuring your choices and actions with your expected results. Did they produce the results you wanted? If not, what needs to change to get what you defined?
Don’t Attempt Change without Setting a Baseline.
Periodic Measuring Image: Background
This image illustrates various tasks or occurrences during the life of a project. Think of your belief-set as a project plan with components that include your basic belief definition, the choices you have defined for that belief, the related actions you will take over time, along with the significant outcome (i.e., the results you designed).
Evaluate Your Baseline Measure
The first thing you will want to do is set the baseline measure for your belief – this is the starting measure. For example, let’s assume that your idea is that “You encourage your employees frequently during the week.” You believe that you do this somewhat effectively and gauge yourself to be a six on the CAM Awareness Scale today.
(Wisdom Sidebar) We can use unique surveys and other mechanisms to track the actual employee feedback to ensure our self-evaluation is realistic.
Set & Record Your Measurement
After making your initial assessment, record your measurements for the result: this is your beginning baseline measure. We have a method for doing this task – see our Beliefs Workshop. There is a basic rule-of-thumb about change. This rule goes like this: “Always take an initial measurement to set your baseline starting point – so that you will know where you began.” For you, handy-people and carpenter’s reading along, you will remember the axiom “Measure twice, cut once.”
Record Your Measurements
We suggest you record all your observations and measurements for tracking attainment. How else could you know what’s occurring for you? Do You Need Incentives? Sometimes we want to understand better how things affect us, and we would like to know what to expect.
Here is a beginning list of what we believe you can receive by measuring things in your life:
Confidence and understanding of your abilities
Freedom from the world and other beliefs
Peace and tranquility
Understanding
Awareness and Insights
Connection to others and your higher power (i.e., if you believe in the concept of a higher power)
Health and well-being
Acceptance and surrender to what is
Appreciation for many things – your humanity, feelings, others, etc.
Consequences for your selections and the impacting effects of your choices and action. If these items prove essential and exciting to you, join us and begin investigating further.
Start Your Learning Journey
You can learn more about how to make some of our suggestions by attending one of our introductory webinars for Getting On-Purpose. Please give us your feedback below or on our Contact-Us page.
