When it’s difficult to measure what’s important, the tendency is to make the things that we *can* measure more important. So, it’s important to ensure we’re measuring the right thing, and not getting distracted by things that may be easy to measure, but aren’t necessarily important. The reason for this is because success along your journey leads to confidence, and the confidence that you’re able to progress in one area of healthy change actually spreads to other areas of your life. The feedback that you get from measuring progress along your journey is “fed back” into your overall motivation to continue with that goal, and your motivation to address other areas of improvement. This is why what we measure is so important. Don’t just measure something because it’s easy to measure. Seek to measure things that are better indicators of true progress. I’ll get more into what these types of things are in the next segment.
Beginning to Measure Stress