Stop Keeping Score(for a while)

@Wilson: That's a pretty selfless way to live life and definitely results in good karma. thanks for stopping by and sharing your thoughts :)

The way I apply it to my life is by not keeping score on how many favors I do for others. Even though it is sometimes time consuming to do somebody a favor, I value this a lot. You never know when you might need something by having a nice Rolodex of people willing to call is always a benefit.
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@Annabel: If it was easy we'd all be able to stop. I'm not saying I've mastered it, just something I think could be tremendously valuable. I agree with tracking progress, just something we shouldn't get too obsessed with.

Just noticed all the typos in my comment. But you get what I'm saying ;)
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How do you know how many waves you caught then?! Just teasing. I know this is sooo true but can't stop it. If I didn't keep track and couldn't see that things were improvingI might give up. So I think it's good to track your own progress but definitely a mistake to compare yourself to other people:)
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@Andrea: I'm flattered that you'd print out something I wrote and put it on your wall. It might be the first sign of fame as an author :)

Wow! What a great mantra to live by. In a nutshell it's about living (and enjoying) life this hour, this minute, this second and never looking back, only forward.

I'm going to print this out and hang it up on my wall, as should everybody else.
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@Tony: You hit the nail on the head. What it comes down to more than anything else is presence. When you keep score you really are not present and presence is essential to get into a peak performance zone.

@Ryan: Your point is well taken, which is why had to add the "(for a while) " into the title. So I'm not saying you should completely throw caution to the wind and not pay attention, but you got the point that it's the underlying message of this post that I was trying to get across.

I'm hesitant to abandon all metrics because some of them are important in that they dictate my approach and have genuinely helped me respond to what my readers like, but I do agree with the underlying message here and I have found that the less you worry about keeping score the more things take care of themselves.

Nice pithy food for thought!
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When you stop keeping score you focus on the present moment.

I've in the sport of wrestling all my life. When I stopped keeping score of the match I preformed so much better. I focused on doing my best and not get winning. Sometimes you just need to stop keeping score and just do you. Nice post man.
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@Alex: Think about how many posts you could be writing, how many relationships you could be building or how much you could just be enjoying your life. Nothing is going to change in the few hours between when you first looked at it when you last looked at it. Once a week is all I recommend.

@Ben: You'll be blown away by what happens when you just believe that growth will come and focus on activities that cause growth but not obsess over the stats.

@Tim: That's pretty ironic isn't it. You actually became so obsessed with managing time that the process of managing time left you with no time to do anything else. When you put it like that it sounds insane ;)

Besides checking stats and keeping score, it's easy to get caught in the trap of being a time-management fanatic. I used to spend so much time analyzing my productivity rates that I wouldn't actually get any work done. :P
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Oh man, that's gonna be hard. I have to remind myself that if I'm truly passionate about what I'm putting out, then the people and stats will come as a natural by product.
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Great tips man. I look at my hits wayyyyy too many times a day. I can definitely see how I am not using my time wisely. Keeping score holds people back in my opinion. We get too caught up in comparing and scoring ourselves that we forget what our main goal is. You have really touched on a great topic.
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Sid 2-3 times a week is not bad. I check it about once a week at this point. I've realized that there is no value in checking it so often. But somehow with BlogcastFM I get a little stats obsessive. But, I think it's time to take my own advice on that one :)

What?? You mean checking my Google Analytics 50 times a day won't help my SEO traffic?

=P

I still struggle with this. Everyone knows I am a data and stats geek. I have tried to separate it into two activities:

1) Logging it (adding to the score)
2) Reviewing it (looking at the scores)

Of course this is easier said than done, and some interfaces I can't help but look at the progress as I'm logging it. I wonder if there is a market for a calorie tracker that *doesn't* show you your totals except once or twice a month. So you just log your numbers, and then on the appointed day you actually see your stats - and you can't the rest of the month!

I have gotten down to checking GAnalytics only 2-3 times a week. You're right - the less I check it, the faster it climbs!
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@Ryan: Love the add on insights. You more or less nailed the idea of the comparative and competitive disadvantage. When we truly love what we do and do it just for the love of it, we bring out the best in ourselves and everybody around us.

If there ever was perfect advice, this is it.

Keeping score results in superiority, mediocrity, or inferiority: you're better than the average, average, or below average. Nobody really cares about your score, and you shouldn't either. Judgement really can be fatal to your success because appearances can be misleading, and are misleading in most cases.

Do what you love doing, for the joy of it. Be passionate about what you do and people will find you.

Great insight!
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