Increasing your production is a relative process. Regardless of how well you are doing now, you can and should always be looking for ways to improve. This constant search for ways to improve and get better is what separates successful people from people who accept far less than what they should.

Regardless of your level of success or happiness, it is a mistake to sit back and think things will always remain the same. Things happen, circumstance, sometimes out of your control, can sweep in and radically change things, not always for the best, on you in a flash. That is why I always work with people on the mantra, get good, and then get better.

Getting better at things is like an insurance policy, its there if and when you need it. If you adopt this policy for yourself, you will always be putting yourself ahead of the curve. You will find this position is one that has a great many advantages for you. One of those advantages that goes along with always wanting to improve your performance is the built in component of not accepting a second best effort from yourself or those that are around you and those that you deal with.

The term that I use is standards. What are you willing to accept as the minimum standard for anything that goes on around you? Someone hands you a report, what standard of performance will you accept before you say, this is not acceptable. There is nothing that passes through your hands, nothing that you are not a part of that you should not have standards set on the completion of that task.

It is the setting of these standards that will allow you to set a base line for performance. The base line is the right part of this exercise. With out have a base line, a right way to performance, you have no chance of increasing your production to a higher level than you are already at. We all have to have some thing to shoot for, a start point on the horizon. With out some goal out in front of us, we tend to wonder and when we do that, forget getting anything close to getting the production we should be getting.