New Year's Confession: I have a nearly compulsive desire to set goals, make charts, track metrics, graph progress, etc. As I was hiking with a friend yesterday I had an epiphany. What if this year instead of tracking, measuring and checking boxes, I just be. Yes, just go through life enjoying the moment, not plotting anything on a graph, not measuring, just going with the flow. I was so giddy at the prospect that the first thing I decided to do was set a goal of how many consecutive days I could go without measuring anything. Naturally, I also made a chart to track my progress. Phew...glad that's over.
Immediately, there were a lot of "likes" and comments. Clearly the sentiment resonated. Sometimes my sense of humor is so subtle that the joke ends up getting missed and some folks seemed to think my post was a pronouncement that I would no longer be measuring or monitoring the metrics that make up my life. This is not the case. In the same morning that I wrote that post, I took several measurements.
