How is your sense of satisfaction?

Part of being highly productive is connecting with a sense of purpose and meaning and deriving enjoyment from what you do. As part of my coaching process, I sometimes ask clients to rate their sense of satisfaction on a scale of  one to ten, with one being the bottom of the barrel and ten being on the tip-top. It’s a way of measuring our progress as we go along, a checkpoint to make sure that they’re getting the desired results from our work together.

In rating your overall sense of satisfaction, you might consider:

• Are you being challenged and stretched in good ways?
• Do you experience growth?
• Can you point to accomplishments that you feel good about?
• How do you feel at the end of the day?
• Is your day to day feeding your soul?

If you find that your rating is lower than you would like, you can increase your score by taking some simple actions.

Connect your higher aspirations with specific actions. This is something that should be part of every weekly review. By creating alignment in actions and purpose, you’ll immediately strengthen your sense of moving in the right direction.

Practice gratitude. I often suggest this simple exercise called Three Good Things. Each day for at least five days in a row, write down three good things that happened and what caused those events to occur. By caused, I mean what did you do that allowed you to experience those three good things. For example, I will beat a deadline today and the cause of that was my willingness to set aside an entire day this week to finish the project ahead of time.

Acknowledge your achievements regularly. It’s often easy to check something off and then rush right past it. However, when you don’t acknowledge what you’ve done, you deny yourself any opportunity to experience satisfaction. During your weekly review, take time to enjoy what you’ve achieved and think about what that achievement makes possible that wasn’t possible before.

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