Reflect for a few minutes: you’ve been growing your website in small increments over time. We don’t notice how much a child has grown until their shoes mysteriously don’t fit, or how much our website has slowly improved.

1. Do you take regular measurements of a few key metrics? If not, open up a spreadsheet and start measuring!

We measure our visitors, subscribers, Twitter followers, revenue earnt, comments, and number of coaching sessions on a weekly basis. You don’t have to use the same metrics or check them as often, but you need something to measure your progress. Use the data to check your strategies are effective, use it to make predictions, and most of all use it on those “This isn’t working, nothing’s happened, I’ve flatlined and we are doooooomed” days.

2. If you blog, go back to one of your earliest posts. Has your style improved since then? Do you get more comments now?

3. Do people share your content on Twitter, Facebook, Digg, StumbleUpon, Posterous and the rest?

4. Do you have a folder to keep praise and positive feedback in? They’re a great pick-me-up and a continued encouragement to keep doing your best work.

5. How many clients, purchases, interested buyers, requests for a brochure and sales have you had? If you have a small trickle, they add up over time!

Don’t forget, you’ve only got until the end of February to sign up for the free awesomeness consulting. I’ve had 35 fantastic wonderful clever-pants people sign up so far and I can cope with more! (I’m powered by excitement, you see). If you are one of the delightful and rather good-looking signups, make sure I have your email address as I’ll be sending you an email with all the details once the month is over.

So, how much has your little website grown up? Tell us in the comments!