Hi Everyone!

I hope you are doing well, staying safe, and pursuing mastery in all areas of your life.

It has been a few weeks since the last Mastery Minute Newsletter and over that time my family and I have:

• Celebrated my son’s 3rd birthday

• Attended my mother’s doctoral program graduation ceremony

• Finalized moving my mother-in-law across the state to live with us

• Recognized my daughter’s graduation from pre-K and transitioned her into a summer routine.

• Played chauffeur for my wife as she balanced attending clinical sessions and work

Rather than trying to fit all of this into a congested 3 week period (and doing everything poorly and rushed), I decided to take some time away from the newsletter, perform the activities I needed to complete, and then return when I could give it my singular focus.

Today’s email is a revisitation of one of the most effective emails I have ever distributed.

People still tell me how much this idea has helped them.

I have also included a YouTube video tutorial and template to assist you.

Put this email into practice and I am sure you will get the result.

I am happy and enthusiastic about writing to you again and look forward to supporting you in the future.

In Mastery,

Matthew

In this newsletter, we are going to talk about tracking.

Tracking is finding the KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) that mean the most to you and recording if you did them on a certain day.

For example, my goal is to complete an Ironman in 2022 and I know that my mobility will help me to prevent injuries that could hamper my training.

So I added a daily stretching routine to my daily tracker.

This way I can track and see how many days a week I am stretching and it encourages me to commit to stretching daily consistently which will make it a habit.

There are three main benefits to tracking your KPIs.

1. Tracking helps you see

This means, with your tracker, it will be easy to see how consistently you are doing a thing. We can often think, "That’s not something I do a lot of" or "I only do that occasionally" but, once you use a tracker, the data might refute this.

How can this help you defeat "Above Average"?

If your "Above Average" behavior is performed consistently but your High-Performance behavior is executed sparingly, it is no surprise why you are in the position you are in. The tracker allows you to see what your causes are instead of trying to deal with effects.

2. Tracking helps you to stay on track

There is a story about what Jerry Seinfeld, the famous comedian, told a newcomer in his space when asked how they too could become a High Performing comedian.

Jerry told them each day they write a new joke to mark that day off with an "X" on their calendar. Then he told them, "Don’t break the streak."

Tracking helps you to stay on track because it allows us to see the streak we have started and visually encourages us to maintain it.

3. Tracking helps you build new habits

This quote sums up the goal of utilizing a tracker: Make your excellence habitual.

When your habits lead you to become a High Performer, you produce personally and professionally automatically.

Being a High Performer transitions from being what you do to being who you are.

On your tracker, pick traits that you want to become habits and track their execution daily.

Check out the video below to see how this comes together to create your Daily Performance Tracker.

See you next week!

Matthew

P.S. Click here for your template!