It is easy to lose track of progress. A good example was this morning during my meditation session. I could not focus and meditate—instead, my brain thought of a million and one things.
My daily fifteen minutes of meditation usually go by quickly, but I struggled at the six-minute mark this morning. I pushed through to the end. I use a MUSE headband to measure my EEG (brainwaves). The MUSE headband comes with an app and it showed that I was quite distracted. I scored particularly low from the usual. That did not surprise me. My inclination was to feel down for not getting the usual high marks. But then my eyes darted to my weekly goal and noticed that I had completed fifty-seven minutes of my one-hour and fifteen-minute weekly goal. Having that weekly goal to reference made me realize that despite having a low-focus day, I was progressing toward my overall goal.
How many of us feel bad for not meeting our standards without realizing we are inching closer to our overarching goal? Without a roadmap, we might not know how close we are to the end. So maybe ask yourself, do I have my goals written down, and if so, are they quantifiable?
So that was my Aha moment! Sometimes we are closer than we know to achieving our dreams and goals. We just need to learn how to create quantifiable goals and know how to keep track of them.