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Here's your success mentor, Darren Hardy.

Are you counting the minutes that you work or the impact of those minutes?

Are your business metrics reflecting genuine progress,

or are they just smoke and mirrors?

And what about in your personal life?

Is your well-being measured in the steps on a pedometer

or in the destinations those steps take you?

You've probably heard the axiom.

Not everything that can be counted counts,

and not everything counts that can be counted.

I have found so often people are counting the wrong thing, and they are confounded on why their

life is unhappy, unfulfilled, and unsuccessful. Today, we're going to look at those things that people

often count that in the end don't count at all

and can lead you to wonder even after all this work, discipline, and dedication, why am I still

not successful? But that won't happen to you, not anymore after we're done. Let's look at this

both in the business environment and in your personal life

separately. And as I go through these, self-assess if these are the things that you are counting

on helping you be more successful. First, in business, counting your working hours, long hours

do not equate to productivity. I know putting in a 70 to 80-hour week feels like an achievement, but it's not.

Quality over quantity is far more beneficial. Working smarter, not harder, is the objective. It's the

results, not the clocked hours that count. Next, email count. High email counts don't reflect

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