Quick Answer
The weekly benchmark method replaces vague impressions with one repeated measurement. You choose a single thing you can measure the same way every week, record it, and then leave it alone until the next week arrives. Impressions drift with mood and recent memory. A number taken under consistent conditions, week after week, gives you something you can genuinely compare against itself.
Choose One Measure and Fix the Conditions
The measure matters less than the consistency. A waist measurement, a walking distance, a number of repetitions, the time a familiar route takes: any of these works if you can repeat it faithfully. Write down exactly how you took it, including the day, the time and the circumstances, so that future you can reproduce those conditions precisely.
Then resist the urge to add more measures. Each additional one multiplies the chances that something looks like it is moving when nothing is, and multiplies the effort of keeping the record. One well-taken figure per week, over three months, is a far better set of data than six figures collected enthusiastically and then abandoned.
Read the Series, Not the Latest Point
A single week tells you almost nothing, because ordinary fluctuation is larger than most people assume. Six or eight weeks begins to show direction. When you look at the record, cover the most recent entry and ask what the earlier ones suggest; then uncover it and see whether it changes the picture or merely decorates it.
This discipline protects you from the two common errors: abandoning something that was working because one week looked poor, and persisting with something that was not working because one week looked promising. The series is the evidence. Any individual point is just a point, and treating it as a verdict is how people change course constantly.
Before You Go: The Practical Bit
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