Chris McGraw
Chris McGraw

Chris McGraw

Executive Search & Business Development Executive who is a fan of personal branding, talent management & business development.

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From Forget About Setting Goals. Focus on This Instead. by James Clear

None of this is to say that goals are useless. However, I’ve found that goals are good for planning your progress and systems are good for actually making progress.

From Forget About Setting Goals. Focus on This Instead. by James Clear

Feedback loops are important for building good systems because they allow you to keep track of many different pieces without feeling the pressure to predict what is going to happen with everything. Forget about predicting the future and build a system that can signal when you need to make adjustments.

From Forget About Setting Goals. Focus on This Instead. by James Clear

Each Friday, I spend 15 minutes filling out a small spreadsheet with the most critical metrics for my business. For example, in one column I calculate the conversion rate (the percentage of website visitors that join my free email newsletter each week). I rarely think about this number, but checking that column each week provides a feedback loop that tells me if I’m doing things right. When that number drops, I know that I need to send high quality traffic to my site.