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Realize Your Goals By Compressing Them Into Daily Systems
Leading indicators are indicators that change before a business or economy as a whole change.
They’re activity-based indicators that show the health of a system in advance of the outcome.
In business, revenue is a lagging indicator, while daily prospecting calls or weekly recruitment phone interviews are leading indicators.
Goals are realized when they’re built on an executable system performed daily.
When you establish a daily system, you make incremental improvements that compound over time.
That’s why I try to compress all my goals down to the day. I execute them as part of a daily or weekly system.
Here’s how you can break down your goals into a daily system:
- Long terms goals: I create a list of all my big hairy audacious goals (BHAG). These are my “10x” goals taking Grant Cardone’s advice. One of my BHAGs is having a group of companies that exceed $100,000,000 in yearly revenue.
- Yearly goals: I break down my big goals into five to ten yearly goals. An example of business goals is to make me unnecessary into day-to-day activities at Skylink and acquire one to two companies.
- Quarterly goals: I then set three to six Objectives and Key Results…