How will I measure my life?

This week 3 interesting things have happened.  I have read this book called launching leaders which talks about making the best of our lives, about establishing end goals and about charting a plan to get there.  Secondly, we are in the process of yearly appraisals at work and although I didn't complete my own yet, I have been reminding people and asking them to complete their self evaluations. Third, I have been troubled and busy trying to determine how to effectively measure my newly acquired team of sourcing and procurement professionals.  I am not all that familiar with this and there are many functions in the process. One thing is for sure, no one likes an unfair rating at the end. Everyone wishes we would have had more time to do something, or we regret not doing something simply because we knew it but we lost focus of it.

This week I went and reviewed the Harvard Management Mentor lesson on appraisals.  I didn't really put to much interest in yearly reviews because targets can not be fixed for so long periods. Interestingly I learned that even in business the targets move, that they require adjustments. This made it clear to me that goal setting must be slightly different approach and even when many things can change in such a long time, We should still be setting realistic and relevant targets. We should be checking every now and then on how we are doing.

The same hold true for our lives, I recall troubling my mother and many others with the question of why we need to live, what is the purpose of life. Its not like I didn't have an idea of what was expected out of my life, meaning what Heavenly Father wanted me to do, but the question now is about what do I want to do with my life?

I have my life goals pretty much defined already but still seems like some of them were more like wished and not necessarily goals because there was not plan to achieve them.  I feel confident that I can now go and draft some of them now and bridge the gaps there.

How will I measure my life?  How will I do my yearly appraisals?  How will I do my half-yearly, my monthly and weekly review?  

How would you measure your life?