Do you keep track of your personal growth?

Question

As we work on our projects we also grow, both in terms of our knowledge and skills, but also personally.

I was interested if anyone here tracks that growth and what parameters do they track?

Daniel Leal · Accepted Answer

Hey Misha, really good question.

I'd like to share what I do. With my wife we set yearly goals, we separate them into categories:
- Finance
- Social
- Spiritual
- Family
- Profesional 
- Intellectual

Each one reviews the goals weekly and we review them together every quarter to see how we are going and if anything has changed so far. We also give a point to every goal and then divide them for the category total so we know if we are moving forward or not in order to achieve the category goals.

It is something like that. It works for us!

Tytti Sandström · Answer

@saqib301 How do you track these?

Tytti Sandström · Answer

@price2spy this is an interesting topic. If there was (or is?) a tool that would help me visualize how my personal skills, knowledge etc. have grown, i'd be really interested!

Saqib Ali · Answer

For me, there are two parameters to track my personal growth:

1. How many new skills I've learned so far? Or How good I've gotten in my previously learned skills?
2. How much control I've achieved over my emotional, spiritual, and intellectual abilities?

Tytti Sandström · Answer

@saqib301 Thanks, in my opinion it's good to have things in life, that are not date driven. For me exercise is something i don't maintain a full record of. I want it to be feeling-driven instead of data-driven :)

Saqib Ali · Answer

@price2spy Thanks! Yeah like I mentioned above, it's more of a spontaneous thing for me. But I do consider the ROI for my time spent on learning anything.

Daniel Leal · Answer

@price2spy I guess it was the inner, simple willing of being better.

Misha Krunic · Answer

@daniel_leal Wow! I think this is an amazing approach. Out of curiosity, what prompted you to start doing it?

Daniel Leal · Answer

@tytti_sandstrom 3-4 years now. I honestly recommend it.

Saqib Ali · Answer

@tytti_sandstrom Yeah, couldn't agree more. As for the exercise part, I let the mirror be my judge. :D

Tytti Sandström · Answer

@daniel_leal for how long have you been doing this?

Daniel Leal · Answer

@tytti_sandstrom uhmmm I don't have data from the big picture (the 4 years) , but I do from each year separately.

Tytti Sandström · Answer

@daniel_leal thanks, I love data and graphs and this discussion inspires me to build them about personal growth :)

Saqib Ali · Answer

@tytti_sandstrom To be honest, I don't really maintain a record using any tool or something. This is more of an abstract psychological thing for me.

Do you keep track of your personal growth?

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