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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 way that is best for you.)
Measurement won't solve everything. It is not an ultimate answer to life. However, it is a way to track something critical
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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.
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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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You Can't Be Successful At Everything
You can't have it all. So any vision of success has to admit what it's losing out on, where the element of loss is.
And the thing about a successful life is that a lot of the time, our ideas of what it would mean to live successfully are not our own.
Everything Is Supposed To Be
There are always things out of place in our life, seriously contemplating our existence tends to make us feel slightly alien to this world. Taken to an extreme, it leads to existential depression.
The simple fact of the matter is that nothing is out of place. It is simply human nat...
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