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Leobabout of Zen Habits dot net, and I'm just a molecule personal narrator reading

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Untrack, letting go of the stress of measuring by Leo Babouta of Zen Habits.

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There are few old management adages that seems to run like a current through our society,

powering our work and personal lives. You can't manage what you don't measure and you are what you measure and you get what you measure.

And I've fallen for it myself. At various times I've tracked workouts, miles run, everything

I've eaten, every single work task I complete, progress towards goals, my weight, my body fat percentage, how many days I've done

a habit in a month, words written each day, books I've read, expenses, earnings, debt, website visitors, ad clicks, tweets, followers, and on and on.

Sometimes I've tracked a few of these at the same time.

Now I'm not alone.

There are people who track the most minute to details of their lives,

from heartbeats to steps walked,

to hours left in quality of the sleep to email sent as a society we're tracking

and measuring more than ever before. What's the theory here and is it true and is it true, and is it necessary?

The theory behind measuring is that unless you measure something you don't know if it's getting better or worse.

You can't manage for improvement if you don't measure to see what is getting better and what isn't.

And to some extent, this is true. If you measure how many hours you spend writing, it's very possible that that number will increase simply

because you're measuring it, more aware of it, more focused on it, and motivated for that number

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