Progress beats perfection — and some of your best progress this year hasn’t reached the numbers yet.

If you looked back at this financial year and felt that quiet sting of “I didn’t get there,” read this before you write the year off.

Financial year-end is just a day — a marker for the ATO, and nothing more.

If you look back over your profit and loss for the last 12 months and you didn’t achieve your goals, I actually want to congratulate you.

Number one, you had goals. Number two, you set them high.

Because it isn’t about setting a goal and achieving it.

It’s about setting a goal and making progress towards it.

And not all of the progress you made this year is showing on your profit and loss or your balance sheet yet.

Some of it is your own leadership development, your relationships, your self-esteem — and those things often have a delay between when you build them and when they show up in the numbers.

So wherever you are, just remember you’re where you’re meant to be. Go easy on yourself.

If you had a great year, congratulations. If it wasn’t everything you wanted, don’t put too much weight on that — it really is just about small improvements, and quietly, steadily, moving forward.

Check out my short video on the topic below.