Course 3, Discussion 4: One Key Metric

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✒️ (TW: themes that deal with death) Read chapter 12 of our Searching Soul book and do the exercise where you imagine it is the end of your life. If comfortable, post what you imagine people saying to you at the conclusion of the exercise. If comfortable, then please share how the exercise impacted you. What you imagine them telling you is your compass. If you are acting in a way that is consistent with what they are saying, then it is very likely that you will end up living a meaningful life. Remember to listen to and follow this compass so as not to be distracted by the clock.

I imagined people saying that I always tried my best. Whether it was in school, home, personal life, or work, I always gave things 110% of my efforts. This exercise was insightful and impacted how I think about myself.

✒️ Work with your team or mentor and identify the key metric you are hoping to help move. Post daily (or the cadence that makes sense) in the 3 key things thread to highlight what you are doing to help us move 7 Cups forward. Please post here why this goal of choosing a single metric is important. Think of how this is important in your professional life, but also how this can help you personally as well.

I'm a Teen Chatroom Star ! :) ♡ Our key metric is to keep the Listener Chatrooms safe, supportive and active :p ♡ I have learnt a lot from having this role, and I think it is really important - making sure a wonderful space is kept safe and welcoming, so that listeners coming in can have their questions answered and receive the support they deserve along their listening journey.

I believe having a single metric is important as it - helps us to focus on one key goal, provides clarity and a clear direction. It also helps us to measure and evaluate performance, helps with accountability and responsibility too :) and more!

✒️ (TW: themes that deal with death) Read chapter 12 of our Searching Soul book and do the exercise where you imagine it is the end of your life. If comfortable, post what you imagine people saying to you at the conclusion of the exercise. If comfortable, then please share how the exercise impacted you. What you imagine them telling you is your compass. If you are acting in a way that is consistent with what they are saying, then it is very likely that you will end up living a meaningful life. Remember to listen to and follow this compass so as not to be distracted by the clock.

I have completed this, but don't feel comfortable sharing my answer due to personal reasons.

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Please post here why this goal of choosing a single metric is important. Think of how this is important in your professional life, but also how this can help you personally as well.
Choosing a single metric is important to give you a focal point. To help you measure success in a way that will make you proud of yourself and make you want to get out of bed in the morning to see how much further or how much of a habit you can make steps toward the metric. The north star.
This is extremely important because and remind you not to get caught up in the unnecessary steps. For example... partying may be part of someone steps if their north star is networking to model, being a party or wedding planner, psychologist even (to see how people react in certain circumstances) but if someones north star is to be a CEO of a company, the best thing may not to have stories about how you like to let loose and forget responsibilities. Steps towards CEO may more include small gatherings or, if you love partying, maybe a small gathering for the 4th of July with some alcohol.
What you like doesn't have to be a sacrifice, it just has to be part of the dream. Who you strive to be.
Respecting yourself, knowing who you are and acting as who you want to be.
It is important. Especially if it helps you believe in yourself. As working in LDP helps me believe in myself.

Read chapter 12 of our Searching Soul book and do the exercise where you imagine it is the end of your life. If comfortable, post what you imagine people saying to you at the conclusion of the exercise. If comfortable, then please share how the exercise impacted you.
My compass is difficult. I do not mind sharing the brunt of it because... I want to inspire someone to admit life to themselves.
I had, and am still having, a hugely difficult time imagining my funeral. It didn't hurt to imagine myself gone, I will actually be glad once I have created my own story. It hurt because I do not know or imagine how long I actually have. When I imagined myself in a coffin, I could only see blurriness. I realize right now as I'm typing that it is because that is not where I will be. I want to be reunited with the earth that helped me live.
Apart from that. While I was imagining what would be said, I saw so many sad things... but I did feel what I wanted people to feel about me.
I want my partner to say I was honest, committed, collaborative instead of argumentative and uncompromising, dedicated to those I love and respect, and not afraid to reach for adventures to learn about myself while learning about life.
I want my children to say I was considerate, their best friend, a mother they were proud of, and someone who had a marriage that inspired them to never settle for less.
I messed up a bunch through highschool and college so I lost all my longterm friends but I do want someone I can go to who will prioritize me like I would them. I want to actually want to be around them. I want them to say I was supportive regardless of the circumstances, wise, friendly, didn't take bull**** from anyone, and that I had no filter.
Overall, I just want to be seen as honestly natural to myself as I can be. My values are that I do not want to settle or be a push over or keep my mouth shut or unsupportive/dismissive. I want to be someone anyone can talk to because they know they'll get the truth.

That's a little bit drawn out but yes. It's personal but I believe there is beauty in taking a chance. This helped me see/accept/understand my values. I hope it can inspire someone to share theirs too.

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Work with your team or mentor and identify the key metric you are hoping to help move. Post daily (or the cadence that makes sense) in the 3 key things thread to highlight what you are doing to help us move 7 Cups forward. Please post here why this goal of choosing a single metric is important. Think of how this is important in your professional life, but also how this can help you personally as well.

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✒️ Work with your team or mentor and identify the key metric you are hoping to help move. Post daily (or the cadence that makes sense) in the 3 key things thread to highlight what you are doing to help us move 7 Cups forward. Please post here why this goal of choosing a single metric is important. Think of how this is important in your professional life, but also how this can help you personally as well.

I am not part of 7 Cup Team. But I think I understand the '3 Key Things' I write them down at the beginning of each work day/session. At the end of the day, anything not done is forwarded to the next work day/session '3 Key Things' list and so on and so on. At the end of the week. I monitor which ones I completed and give myself a % Completion Score. Metrics are Important. Unless I acknowledge my accomplishments, I tend to overrate myself.

✒️ (TW: themes that deal with death) Read chapter 12 of our Searching Soul book and do the exercise where you imagine it is the end of your life. If comfortable, post what you imagine people saying to you at the conclusion of the exercise. If comfortable, then please share how the exercise impacted you. What you imagine them telling you is your compass. If you are acting in a way that is consistent with what they are saying, then it is very likely that you will end up living a meaningful life. Remember to listen to and follow this compass so as not to be distracted by the clock.

I read this, but do not wish to put my writing in a post that is open to the public. That said. a terrifically insightful exercise. Thank you.

✒️ Please reply to at least 1 of your peers in this thread with encouraging or supportive words!

@FrenchToastClub

✒️ Work with your team or mentor and identify the key metric you are hoping to help move. Post daily (or the cadence that makes sense) in the 3 key things thread to highlight what you are doing to help us move 7 Cups forward. Please post here why this goal of choosing a single metric is important. Think of how this is important in your professional life, but also how this can help you personally as well.

I lead the peer support team. Our key metric is focusing on helping listeners feel supported when faced with a challenge on the site whether it be with a chat, forums, group support, or a site change. This goal is important so listeners can feel like the listener community cares about them and helps them feel motivated to not give up and keep trying. Focusing on one goal is important because it will be more manageable than trying to hit other targets and keeping important strategies at hand.

✒️ (TW: themes that deal with death) Read chapter 12 of our Searching Soul book and do the exercise where you imagine it is the end of your life. If comfortable, post what you imagine people saying to you at the conclusion of the exercise. If comfortable, then please share how the exercise impacted you. What you imagine them telling you is your compass. If you are acting in a way that is consistent with what they are saying, then it is very likely that you will end up living a meaningful life. Remember to listen to and follow this compass so as not to be distracted by the clock.

I read the chapter but the topic of death is triggering and not something I am comfortable being open about in public.

@FrenchToastClub

✒️ Work with your team or mentor and identify the key metric you are hoping to help move. Post daily (or the cadence that makes sense) in the 3 key things thread to highlight what you are doing to help us move 7 Cups forward. Please post here why this goal of choosing a single metric is important. Think of how this is important in your professional life, but also how this can help you personally as well.

Using a single metric allows us to easily measure the changes we are making by giving us a clear goal. It narrows down the generalised goal into small obtainable steps which may be easier to see, especially in the short-term.

✒️ (TW: themes that deal with death) Read chapter 12 of our Searching Soul book and do the exercise where you imagine it is the end of your life. If comfortable, post what you imagine people saying to you at the conclusion of the exercise. If comfortable, then please share how the exercise impacted you. What you imagine them telling you is your compass. If you are acting in a way that is consistent with what they are saying, then it is very likely that you will end up living a meaningful life. Remember to listen to and follow this compass so as not to be distracted by the clock.

Read chapter 12, have journaled my thoughts privately

✒️ Work with your team or mentor and identify the key metric you are hoping to help move. Post daily (or the cadence that makes sense) in the 3 key things thread to highlight what you are doing to help us move 7 Cups forward. Please post here why this goal of choosing a single metric is important. Think of how this is important in your professional life, but also how this can help you personally as well.

Choosing a goal of single metric may have the benefit of it being easy to fall back on, since it's just one all encompassing thing that helps create simplicity when in a storm. Instead of looking for highly complicated structures, which can be hard to do when you are struggling, the easiest and most efficient way is to fall back on that one thing that is simple yet effective enough to guide you out of that storm, after which you may look into extensive details of how to progress further based on that one simple guiding factor.

I recently joined the quality mentor and chat support team, which is my way of giving back to the community and helping it progress after having gotten lot of good from being on this site.

✒️ (TW: themes that deal with death) Read chapter 12 of our Searching Soul book and do the exercise where you imagine it is the end of your life. If comfortable, post what you imagine people saying to you at the conclusion of the exercise. If comfortable, then please share how the exercise impacted you. What you imagine them telling you is your compass. If you are acting in a way that is consistent with what they are saying, then it is very likely that you will end up living a meaningful life. Remember to listen to and follow this compass so as not to be distracted by the clock.