Two Surprising Ways Collecting Data on Myself Transformed My Life
For real growth, go deeper than an app on your smartphone
If you haven’t tried collecting data on yourself, you need to start right now.
Until you do, you may have trouble understanding your own actions.
Since I started doing so, my life has changed in multiple ways. By collecting data on myself, I finally understood the habits and behaviors that held me back from achieving my goals.
I attained a new level of focus in both my personal and professional lives. Ultimately, my work performance improved drastically, and I was selected for an important (and unexpected) promotion.
None of this would have happened if I hadn’t started recording information about myself in an old-fashioned notebook. The idea had been suggested to me by a friend, but I ignored the advice until things got terrible, and I felt lost.
I changed course while in the midst of a months-long rut. I had a falling out with my boss and an argument with my wife on the same day. This was not like me! I (mostly) get along with people!
I knew something was wrong. I always had the best of intentions but was failing to deliver on multiple fronts. I did not understand what was happening.
