Good morning and welcome to the Increase Your Impact podcast. I'm Justin Sua, episode 1,884.

Some of you are working extremely hard. You're putting in, you have a lot of discipline.

You're putting in the hours. You have a great process. But you're not seen results. This episode is for you.

You want to consider that you might not necessarily be doing the wrong

thing. Some of you are questioning your process. You're wondering if your system is right

because you have not gotten the results. The problem is your process might not be wrong.

Your system might not be wrong.

It might be the thing that you're measuring.

You're measuring the wrong thing at the moment.

So don't let the lack of results distract you from noticing that you are trending in the

right direction.

That if you stick with it, you will get the results that you want.

So instead of measuring the lagging indicator, which is the fit body after working hard,

losing weight, the good grades, winning the championship, those things will come.

Those are called lagging indicators.

Basically, you have your stimulus, the work you're putting in, and the result lags from that.

And sometimes it's weeks, months, and even years in some cases.

What you want to focus on our leading indicators, meaning what are those short-term goals that

let you know, or indicators that let you know that you're on the right track?

It might come in the form of a sore body.

It might come in the form of peace, peace of mind.

It might come in the form of more energy, of more productivity.

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