The Tao of Self-Evaluation

As a one-person business owner, you are your own quality assurance director. Your responsibility when it comes to this part of your role includes evaluating your own performance. Not always an easy task.

My weekly self-evaluation helps me to refocus, reimagine, reignite, rejuvenate, recenter, and remember.

This passage from 🔗 Tao 365 🔗 guides my evaluations.

It’s important to examine both the short-range and the long-range. If you want to go far in a decade, you have to go far each year. If you want to go far each year, you have to make sure that you do something significant each day. Use the cycles of life to establish a measure to your life, and then arrange your plans according to the units that you have chosen. Then there will be no fear of not knowing your own progress.

This quote lives in the Google Sheet I use to evaluate my progress toward the goals I've committed to this year. My weekly self-evaluations occur every Friday morning when I work through my goals, update them with a detailed progress note, and reread this passage.

This process works like a charm. It keeps me motivated and on track.

How do you evaluate yourself and your work?