A maxim is an expression of a general truth or principle and I can think of no better description for one of my favourites…
What gets measured gets done!
Yep, that sure is true! And, unfortunately, I get reminded of the truth of it every time I look at my watch, a Garmin Vivofit 2 because it nags me about how I’m going toward achieving my daily step goal.
Now, it never started that way. I wasn’t really expecting to be forced into doing any number of steps every day. In fact, I got the darn watch as a gift from my lovely daughter and, yes, I did think it would be interesting to occasionally look at how many steps I was walking.
But that watch is a ferocious little monster!
The little bugger conscientiously records my every step every day and then forces me to look at what I have achieved against my goal every day, repeat, every day… Christmas day, my birthday, lie-around-and-do-nothing-day, do I make myself clear every darn day!
If you want to do more, be more and achieve more you must read this book today!
And yes, I didn’t start that regime you know! That damn watch did! I didn’t put a goal in there! It created one! All by itself! Auto-digitally-matically!
And when I found myself tired, crippled and heading out at midnight to get to the goal steps it demanded I found that I could set my own goal. So I did!
But now I had set a goal and that black brat kept counting down how I was doing. It was measuring my every step. It was relentlessly recording my progress against my goal.
And there was no way I could go to bed any night, no matter how late, if I hadn’t got the plus + sign and the orange coloured bar for reaching my goal.
I had to do it! (As a matter of interest, to walk twice round our bedroom, kitchen and lounge is 342 steps.)
Just goes to prove what gets measured gets done! And it’s been good for me (and the dogs who used to be the ones who drove me to walk).
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