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I'm your host, Elise Hume. Living a fulfilling life starts with tracking what truly matters.

In this talk, personal metrics expert Chris

Musser shares how he turned a single question, am I living a good life into a daily practice,

tracking progress across nine dimensions, from faith and relationships to work and well-being.

By measuring his life each day, Chris tells us how he learned

to spot the patterns and balance the trade-offs that can help any of us focus on what truly

matters.

Can I get a show of hands if you use a wearable?

Fitbit, Ura, Apple Watch, track your health?

Come on.

Okay, okay.

It's like 50% of you.

I love this.

So my question for us today, for you but also the non-wearables,

is what if we expanded from not just measuring our health,

but to measuring all the important parts of our lives? So this really started for me,

after I turned 25, and I started to wake up in the middle of the night pretty consistently with these panics. A lot of folks wake up with to-do lists bouncing through their minds,

a lot of you, maybe, some of you. I had to-do lists bouncing through their minds, a lot of you maybe, some of you.

I had to-do lists, but I also had this major to-be list.

Really just will I be a good man?

Will I live a good life?

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