What If Your Life Had Quarterly Reports?

Have you ever noticed that companies publish quarterly reports, but people rarely do?

Every three months, businesses stop, review the numbers, measure progress, celebrate successes, identify problems, and adjust their strategy.

Yet most of us drift through life without ever asking the same question:

"Am I actually better off than I was three months ago?"

When the Credit Crunch hit in 2008, I started treating my own life like a quarterly report, although it wasn’t until years later that I realised that was what I was doing.

I don’t want to turn life into a business, but I do want to know whether I'm moving in the right direction.

My review isn't just about money.

It includes:

• Debt reduction
• Income
• Health and fitness
• Weight
• Books and Articles written
• Podcast episodes published
• Website progress
• Family events
• Concerts and days out
• Future plans

At first glance, those things seem unrelated.

They're not. They include waypoints that give a chance to assess.

They're all evidence of one thing:

Am I building a life with more freedom than I had three months ago?

For example, when I go to see Jungle in November, I don't just want to remember a great gig.

I want to look back and know that by then:

• My debts are lower,

• My fitness has improved,

• I've published more content,

• My business has grown,

• I'm closer to the life I want.

The concert becomes a milestone, not just a memory.

Companies measure shareholder value.

I measure Lifestyle Freedom.

Perhaps we should all spend a little less time comparing ourselves with other people and a little more time comparing ourselves with the person we were three months ago.

That's the only quarterly report that really matters, because small improvements, repeated over months and years, can completely change the trajectory of a life.