When you were a child, your Teachers used report cards to track your performance. As an adult, your Managers complete performance reviews, to evaluate your work. Keeping Score, as a method of tracking performance, is nothing new in your life. Yet why do you not track your performance with respect to your personal goals and objectives?

How do you know you are constantly improving and working to better your life, without evaluating your performance?

I created a daily report card, which I use to evaluate my daily performance. I keep a daily report card journal and reference it throughout the day, checking off items, as I complete and accomplish them.

It is important to note this is not a catch-all summary of my life, rather it is a method for tracking my performance in areas, that I am working to improve.

I have found this to be a simple, stress-free method for motivating me to accomplish and achieve my daily, self improvement, goals and objectives.

I modify my daily report card template on a regular basis, as I learn new skills and set new goals. I remove items from the list, as tasks become part of my daily-routine. Any time my life feels out of place, I can reference previous daily report cards to see what I am missing, then can add those tasks back to my current daily list.

Below is a snapshot of my current daily report card.

• Maintain a clean, clear and organized environment
• Do not procrastinate
• Be overly nice to at least 3 people, per day
• Read at least 10 pages of non-fiction, per day
• Read News/Blogs a maximum of 3 times, per day
• Network for Business and Personal Life (LinkedIn, Facebook, Associations)
• Email/Call two personal contacts, per day
• Make more money, by decreasing daily expenses
• Drink at least 60 oz of water, per day
• Do a minimum of 30 push-ups, per day
• Do a minimum of 100 crunches, per day
• Run 3 times, per week

I challenge you to take a minute to start your daily report card. Just think – if I offered to let you complete your own performance review at work, you would do it without thinking twice!