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<\/a><\/div>\nI was in a meeting about Social Media the other day and the speaker was talking about having a baseline, starting that day, I needed to write down and know how many Twitter followers do I have, how many people like my Facebook pages and how many Blog followers do I have. Knowing these numbers today and comparing them to the same time next year allows me to know how much my business and social media presence has grown. When I was 40, I had to have a mammogram so the radiologist would be able to see if there were changes from one year to the next. When you are in 3rd grade, you take a test at the beginning of the year and the same test at the end of the year to see what you have learned. How do you know if you’ve achieved anything if you don’t have a baseline? <\/span> I was in a meeting about Social Media the other day and the speaker was talking about having a baseline, starting that day, I needed to write down and know how many Twitter followers do I have, how many people like my Facebook pages and how many Blog followers do I have. 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<\/span>I am constantly reminding my organizing and life coach clients to remember where they came from instead of always looking at how much work, organizing, and changing they need to do. <\/span>
Many of them have forgotten the reality of their life circumstances or the reality of what their life used to look like. When you forget, you end of up not giving yourself any credit for your accomplishments, only grief at not reaching your goals. <\/span>
<\/span>Take a baseline today of where you are in your life. If need be, write it down, take pictures, whatever you have to do to remind yourself of your starting point. Then write down where you want to go and you can eventually look back and see how far you’ve come while at the same time continuing to “have faith in how far you can go!” <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"