The Most Important Way to Measure Your Day
On a popular blog, Nancy Daley wrote about how to think of your day once it’s over and measure your success or effectiveness for that day. Nancy says:
Most of us will measure our day by what we did. We will reflect back and count the things on the to-do list we were able to check off. The more check marks, the better.
Measuring your day based on what you do, can force you into a dark hole where success becomes what you do, and then when you don’t or can’t ‘do,’ you see yourself as failing that day — and even worse, as being a failure.
We can’t always be ON. Some days we achieve very little at all in terms of actual tasks, but simultaneously achieve a lot through deep thinking, reflection and realizations. Your progress in life is about more than tasks and to-do lists.
Life is about who you become and the way you grow as a human in order to achieve that future self. This goal goes well and truly beyond physical tasks.
Robots and machines do tasks and complete checklists and you’re a human that has far more potential than that.
Maybe you hit inbox zero on your email. Does that make today a success?
