The ultimate quotient that is the test and touchstone of all other quotients from EQ to IQ to SQ is a person's Execution Quotient or XQ. It is the hithert0 unknown and not yet factored quotient or ability of the human being that distinguishes the successful from the not so successful in any profession or sphere of human activity. Hence, it is called XQ. It is easy to measure. No need for a battery of tests or questionnaires. To put it simply, if you plan to do ten things in a day and end up doing 5 of your top ten items targeted for a particular day, your execution quotient is 50 per cent. Your eventual success-failure rate would be in the proportion of one out of two. If the items you executed were not the top five, then your XQ would be less than fifty per cent. If for instance, you performed the last five in your list of things to do,then you further halve your score and your XQ would be just 25 per cent. The good thing about XQ is that it could be as low as 10 per cent on one day but the very next day you could compensate by enhancing the XQ to as high as 90 to 100 per cent.
Most people are said to be good planners but bad executors of our plans. For our personal growth as individuals as well as societal, national and global growth, we need to aim for as close to 100 per cent of XQ. Practised on a daily basis, it would lead to our realizing our goals over a month, a quarter, a year and over a lifetime. While initially it might appear that one needs an iron will to consistently score a high XQ of 9 to 10, the habitual discipline of setting achievable, realistic goals for oneself on a daily basis, doing a mid-day review, checking and evaluating how many were achieved at the end of the day and trying to analyse what were the factors that prevented certain goals from being achieved, would lead to a consistently higher XQ.
Losses of human potential due to proverbial procrastination, overambitious goal-setting and indiscipline would be eliminated over a period of just three months. As Jim Rohn puts it so aptly,
" Change is inevitable, growth is intentional." XQ need not necessarily factor in only work related goals. One could achieve a balance by going for two health related goals, three to four profession related goals,two family related goals, one intellectual goal, one social objective and one spiritual goal. The daily growth in each area would be incremental but over a lifetime would be phenomenal. XQ would enable an individual to gain in due course complete command and mastery of himself/herself. Truly, poise or equilibrium is a great power derived from the mastery of self.
Dr. Prateep V. Philip IPS
