Measuring your project’s impact throughout your journey to transforming your world will be of incredible service to you as you seek to improve your programs and grow bigger. It is helpful to create measures of success that will allow you to evaluate your project’s progress. For example, if you are planning an event, one measure of success could be the number of people who attend; another might be the amount of revenue generated from the event.

Some questions to help you understand how you have moved forward with your project and to help you use these lessons in the future are:

• What was the stimulus that moved you from SEEing to ACTing?
• Who and what were your most helpful resources?
• Have you grown personally, as a leader and as a human being, from your work? How? What about others?
• What skills have you and your team developed? What skills can you still improve upon?
• In what ways, if any, has your networking aided your work?
• Have you maintained communication with all of your networking contacts?
• What obstacles did you encounter to your success? How did you deal with these?
• Was there anything you could have done differently? What and how?
• What outcomes are you most proud of?
• What are your recommendations to other youth seeking to take similar action?

Asking yourself such questions and evaluating your work can help you not only appreciate the progress you have made so far, but can be a catalyst for sustaining your organization into the future as well. That is always a bonus.