The G.Y.S.T. Score
How do you actually know where you stand as a leader?
Personal development is hard to measure. The G.Y.S.T. Score turns it into numbers you can track, now and every 3 months after.
- 35 statements
- 8 areas
- 30 minutes
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Why this exists
At school, a grade told you where you stood. Now self-leadership gets one too.
The first stage of everything we do together is self-leadership, which is applied personal development. You may have collected quotes, kept a journal, been to a seminar or two. The trouble with all of it: it is very hard to measure. How do you know where you actually are? How do you see that three months, six months or a year of work made you better?
When I was still in school and started with personal development, I noticed what a grading system does. It is an imperfect system, but at the end of the year you get a number. That number tells you roughly where you are on the spectrum, and whether you improved or declined. This is the same idea.
This is not version one. It is maybe version 17.
What you get
Eight numbers. No total.
You get part scores in different areas of life and of self-leadership. Three inputs, which are how you think, how you feel and how you act. And five areas of proof: health, relationships, career, family and finances.
Do it again every 3 months. The numbers go up or they go down, and so you know whether you are working in the right direction.
You see your numbers and the focus that fits your age right away. A few minutes later a personal written evaluation of your own answers arrives by email.
Before you start
Set up the next 30 minutes.
- Block the time. About 30 minutes, completely uninterrupted. Switch off your phone and put everything else aside.
- Make a coffee or a tea. There is a reason the mug is on the table.
- Rate, then explain. Every statement gets a number from 1 to 10 and a short Why with a real example. Do not just write "because I do".
- Stay honest. Do not lie to yourself, do not be a hero, do not play the victim. If you did something once last year, that is not a 10. If you are having a bad week, that is not a 1.
- Score 1 where it does not apply yet. No partner, no children: the answer is 1, and that is correct.
Be ready for one hard moment
The first time, this is not going to be fun.
You rate yourself, and then you give the reason for every number. Done for the first time, that shows you all your flaws. I can make grown-up people cry with this little self-assessment. The result might not be sexy. You will not want to show it to your friends.
I promise you will have a moment. One question will hit a pain point, because this is not yet working in your life. You will want to stand up, go somewhere else, pick up your phone, do anything but finish. Do not. Stay with the emotion. Breathe through it. Then move on to the next one.
This is what separates the people who are willing to do the work from the people who only observe it.
Put the spotlight on you
Be okay with looking in the mirror.
You read the book. You watched the videos. You had ideas, and you probably thought, I know someone who does this wrong, and maybe I do too. We tend to see it in other people.
This self-assessment puts the spotlight on you. When you are able to do that, you become coachable. And that is what we want: to say, this is where I am right now, and now let us build on it. You can become really great, really fast, if you are willing to do this.
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