How to Evaluate Personal Growth: 10 Evidence-Based Coaching Practices

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Practices that may help

1. Track mastery progress, not just outcomes (accomplishment pillar)
   Measure your growth in capability over time, not only whether you hit your targets.
   Seligman’s PERMA Model, Made Practical
2. Define success by growth and contribution, not scorekeeping
   Shifting the success metric from achievement tallies to personal growth and impact changes what you optimise for — usually for the better.
   Goal-Free Living: When Process Beats Destination
3. Redirect comparison from others to your own past self
   Deliberately compare today’s self to last year’s self — a comparison with a fixed and knowable baseline.
   Social Comparison Online: What the Research Actually Shows
4. Interrupting upward social comparison
   Notice when comparison is generating discontent and shift attention to your own trajectory.
   Santosha: The Practice of Contentment
5. Review goal-self fit at regular intervals
   As you grow, some formerly self-concordant goals become misaligned — review them deliberately.
   Self-Concordant Goals, Made Practical
6. Celebrate growth, not just goal attainment
   Recognize progress in who you are becoming, not only whether you hit the number.
   Self-Concordant Goals, Made Practical
7. Use a challenge-calibration partner or coach
   Have a more skilled observer set the challenge level — your own assessment is biased.
   Growth-Edge Training: Practicing at the Edge of Your Ability
8. Run a PERMA audit of your current well-being
   Rate each of the five PERMA pillars to find which is currently limiting your overall flourishing.
   Seligman’s PERMA Model, Made Practical
9. Track performance goals against your own baseline, not others
   Measure your progress against your personal standard, not against the competitor or the leaderboard.
   Process vs. Outcome Goals in Sport and Performance
10. Pursue personal growth that you share — not parallel but joint
    Growing alongside a partner or friend, rather than separately, leverages the self-expansion mechanism for both people simultaneously.
    Self-Expansion Model: How Relationships Grow (and Stagnate) Us

Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?

• My whole sense of whether I’m doing well rides on outcomes I don’t fully control, so when the results are slow or disappointing I feel like I’m getting nowhere→
• I measure myself purely by the scoreboard→
• I measure myself against everyone else and always come up short, and I’ve completely lost sight of how far I’ve actually come→
• I measure myself against people who have more or are further along→
• I’m years into chasing something I committed to as a different version of myself, and it doesn’t fit who I am now→

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