Yesterday was the first day of the second half of the year (well, it was when I wrote it on July 1, 2025). A little mind-boggling, but it's a time when many of us check in on ourselves to see how we are progressing towards the goals we have set.
As I worked on my own yesterday and then read Mariel Diaz's post on Typeshare, I started to wonder what everyone else does to track their progress.
Below is just a brief outline of what I do, but I would love to hear your methods.
At the beginning of every quarter, I go through a slightly modified version of Dan Sullivan's The ABC Model Breakthrough.
- I do a brain dump of all of my activities (relating to work)
- I then sort them into 3 categories - Irritating, Okay, Fascinating
- In each of those categories, I pick up to 3 activities to target for the quarter.
- From those activities, I create goals for each one for the quarter. Idea is to get rid of/improve the irritating, delegate/automate the okay, and find ways to do more of the fascinating.
- I take it one step further and use his 4Cs method to identify the Game Changer - the one big thing that will move me closer to an ultimate goal.
- I then put all of these goals into Clickup and track them throughout the quarter. Some I check in on daily, some weekly, and some at the end of the quarter.
I also do a quarterly mind-clearing exercise that I got from one of Dave Crenshaw's trainings.
Share your methods below. We could all learn some new ways to help us reach our goals. I learned a great deal from Mariel's post.
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