Progress Principle- Power Of Small Victories
charged, when ones creativity and productivity are at their excellence, this is
most desirable psychological state of every human being.
But the biggest question arises is that is it possible to always remain in this life
state
Is it possible
One of the professors’ of Harvard University Teresa Amobile along with her
research partner Steven Kramer did a continuous research for years on the
creativity, motivation and productivity of the employees working in industry.
Based on this research they defined a principle known as the progress principle.
Infact based on their research work, there is a book available in the market
named as “The Progress Principle”, in which they have beautifully explained
about their research work on this principle
What is Progress Principle
Progress principle is making progress in meaningful work is the greatest booster
to our
*Emotion
*Motivation
*Creativity &
*Productivity
You might be knowing how to ride and drive a bicycle.Try to remember those childhood days, when you were learning to ride or drive a bicycle, you were progressing slowly,
sometimes you used to fall, sometimes you were balancing, it was a very tough
day for you. The day when you rightly paddled your cycle and you took your cycle
to a distance, didn’t you get motivation boosted, weren’t you happy? This is how the Progress principle works.
Similarly, when in our life, we do better in a project, when we progress step wise step,
we feel emotionally high as our morale gets boosted, our creativity and productivity increases and this is the Power Of Small Victories
What is the power of Small Victories
If one improves in any work by 1% daily, after an year, one achieves 37% mastery in
that work. Now you can well understand how powerful this progress principle is. Everyday
you need to improve bit by bit. You need to win daily again bit by bit. These victories boost
our motivation daily, and the nature of a person to win gets satisfied
How to apply this progress principle in our daily life
1) Maintain daily progress ritual:- Your complete focus should be in thing that you
are progressing in your life, maybe how minute it is, but still you are advancing.
For this you need to make a journal, and make sure to write at least three points
in which you have advanced, it will give you happiness and will boost your emotions
and motivate you for further victories.
2) Recognise the value of small victories:- We always think for big victories, go for big
victories. In this process, we tend to forget, else we ignore the small victories. If you need
to achieve a journey of 1000 miles, you will have to take the first step. Never forget these
minute & small steps complete your journey to a major victory. If you want that your
motivation remains boosted, your creativity remains enhanced and productivity remains
increasing, you will have to recognise these small wins and to celebrate these small wins.
Hence, from now onwards you have to celebrate your small victories, which will lead you
to a massive victory in future.
3) Crowdsource your performance review :- It means you have to take the feedback from
your family members, relatives, friends, colleagues, from wherever you can as you need
to improve because your complete focus is your progress, The more you take feedback,
the more you improve, and the more you progress
4) Build a Bigger WHY :- When you start with a work, and your reason behind your doing
that work is clear in your mind, purpose behind your doing that work is clear to you and
why are you working, your clarity of thought for the purpose of work you have started the
work and with which motive you are doing the work, if all these things are clear to you, no
one can stop you from climbing the unfathomable path of victory in your life
How will one feel, when one remains motivated everyday, one is emotionally
charged, when ones creativity and productivity are at their excellence, this is
most desirable psychological state of every human being.
But the biggest question arises is that is it possible to always remain in this life
state
Is it possible
One of the professors’ of Harvard University Teresa Amobile along with her
research partner Steven Kramer did a continuous research for years on the
creativity, motivation and productivity of the employees working in industry.
Based on this research they defined a principle known as the progress principle.
Infact based on their research work, there is a book available in the market
named as “The Progress Principle”, in which they have beautifully explained
about their research work on this principle
What is Progress Principle
Progress principle is making progress in meaningful work is the greatest booster
to our
*Emotion
*Motivation
*Creativity &
*Productivity
You might be knowing how to ride and drive a bicycle.Try to remember those childhood days, when you were learning to ride or drive a bicycle, you were progressing slowly,
sometimes you used to fall, sometimes you were balancing, it was a very tough
day for you. The day when you rightly paddled your cycle and you took your cycle
to a distance, didn’t you get motivation boosted, weren’t you happy? This is how the Progress principle works.
Similarly, when in our life, we do better in a project, when we progress step wise step,
we feel emotionally high as our morale gets boosted, our creativity and productivity increases and this is the Power Of Small Victories
What is the power of Small Victories
If one improves in any work by 1% daily, after an year, one achieves 37% mastery in
that work. Now you can well understand how powerful this progress principle is. Everyday
you need to improve bit by bit. You need to win daily again bit by bit. These victories boost
our motivation daily, and the nature of a person to win gets satisfied
How to apply this progress principle in our daily life
1) Maintain daily progress ritual:- Your complete focus should be in thing that you
are progressing in your life, maybe how minute it is, but still you are advancing.
For this you need to make a journal, and make sure to write at least three points
in which you have advanced, it will give you happiness and will boost your emotions
and motivate you for further victories.
2) Recognise the value of small victories:- We always think for big victories, go for big
victories. In this process, we tend to forget, else we ignore the small victories. If you need
to achieve a journey of 1000 miles, you will have to take the first step. Never forget these
minute & small steps complete your journey to a major victory. If you want that your
motivation remains boosted, your creativity remains enhanced and productivity remains
increasing, you will have to recognise these small wins and to celebrate these small wins.
Hence, from now onwards you have to celebrate your small victories, which will lead you
to a massive victory in future.
3) Crowdsource your performance review :- It means you have to take the feedback from
your family members, relatives, friends, colleagues, from wherever you can as you need
to improve because your complete focus is your progress, The more you take feedback,
the more you improve, and the more you progress
4) Build a Bigger WHY :- When you start with a work, and your reason behind your doing
that work is clear in your mind, purpose behind your doing that work is clear to you and
why are you working, your clarity of thought for the purpose of work you have started the
work and with which motive you are doing the work, if all these things are clear to you, no
one can stop you from climbing the unfathomable path of victory in your
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