But after reading this article, you’ll also see it can be shorthand for the QUALITY and QUANTITY of your results.
The QUANTITY viewpoint is demonstrated by many Politicians, Business Leaders, Attorneys, Bankers, Mortgage Lenders, TV Executives, and Athletes / Coaches to name just a few.
But, when the focus and measurement is only on getting elected or reelected, on hitting the quarterly numbers, on increasing shareholder value, or on capturing more viewer eyeballs…those results are too often achieved at the exclusion of excellence, quality, character, compassion and integrity.
So how does this apply to the quality of your life as well as the quantity and abundance of your results? In this value:
Everything you do, every result you generate, every cause and effect relationship comprises of both means and ends…quality and quantity.
Is winning really winning if you are ashamed of how victory came?
Can you really consider yourself a success if the only measurement is based on QUANTITY, and zero attention is paid to the QUALITY of how those results were actually achieved?
Courtesy, honesty, style, excellence, integrity, service and respect for others — these are the QUALITATIVE measurements that make for an inspiring life, legacy and reputation.
How can the ends, or QUANTITY, of your efforts be respected if the means or QUALITY of your behavior make you blush?
Now let’s put all this to use.
The QUANTITY of your results is easy to determine by looking at your checkbook, stock portfolio, sales performance, P&L statement, school grades or your waistline.
Look at the goals and agenda you are currently pursuing and that you have achieved in the past. What’s changed, what’s improved and what remains the same.
Determining the QUALITY and means of your results requires a much deeper and more rigorous self-assessment.
Reflect on how you live your life; how you go about getting the results you achieved. Consider these questions as it relates to the QUALITY of your life.
Over the past year…
It’s no longer what you do or simply the QUANTITY of your results that matters most and which sets you apart from others. It's also how you created those results.
Taking pride in your work, building a stellar reputation and sleeping peacefully -- all these flow from your ability to improve how you do what you do. You must focus on ways to step up your performance and challenge yourself to out-behave who you were yesterday.
When measuring your performance always remember to place a healthy balance on both the quality and quantity of your results.
Quantity without evaluation of quality is a moral misdemeanor: it only takes partial, not a complete true measurement into consideration.
Gary Ryan Blair designed the 100 Day Challengeto be a program that empowers you to achieve a life of quantitative results with honor, service and integrity.
If you want to step up both the quality and quantity of your life, then the 100 Day Challenge can really help you.
I believe in it so much that I am taking the 100 Day Challenge. And I invite you to join me today. Just click here now
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Special thanks to Gary Ryan Blair's team at 100 Day Challenge for permission to share his insights about quantity and quality.
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