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It's Not About the Result, It's About Awareness
The trick is to realize that counting, measuring, and tracking is not about the result. It's about the system, not the goal.Measure from a place of curiosity. Measure to discover, to find out, to understand.
Measure from a place of self-awareness. Measure to get to know yourself better.
Measure to see if you are showing up. Measure to see if you're actually spending time on the things that are important to you. (Make sure to measure backward, not forward.)
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You Can't Measure Everything
There are some things in life that don't need to be measured. Some people just love working out for the sake of working out. Measuring every repetition might reduce the satisfaction and make it seem more like a job. There is nothing wrong with that. (As always, take the main idea and use it in a ...
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The Idea in Practice
But even for things that can't be quantified, measuring can be helpful. And it doesn't have to be complicated or time-consuming.
You can't measure love, but you can track different ways that you are showing up with love in your life
You can't measure morality, but you can track if yo...
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What We Measure, We Improve
The things we measure are the things we improve. It is only through numbers and clear tracking that we have any idea if we are getting better or worse.
- When I measured how many pushups I did, I got stronger.
- When I tracked my reading habit of 20 pages per day, I read more books...
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Measure Your Goals
Evidence of your progress towards a goal is one of the most motivating things you can experience.
The trick is to realize that counting, measuring, and tracking is not about the result. Measure to discover, to find out, to understand.
How to measure what's important in your life
- Measure from a place of curiosity. Measure to understand.
- Measure from a place of self-awareness. Measure to know yourself better.
- Measure to see if you're investing time in the things that are important to you. ...
Stop chasing an impossible Ideal
We set up ideals that are often so far ahead from where we are right now that the ideal feel impossible to achieve.
This future ideal has been set up without really thinking about them, without really being engaged and inspired by getting to this ideal.
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