Today was a fasting day.
Up to now I haven't really been tracking my weight loss. But I have decided to buy myself some electronic scales linked to my phone to be able to monitor my progress. In business a key principle is that you can only manage what you measure. This definitely works for companies but I wonder if it applies to other areas of life? Should we have indicators for:
- Hours spent on screens per day
- Hours spent in transport per day
- Steps you walk in a day
- Kilos lost in the week
- Meaningful conversations you have with your spouse per month
- Words you exchange with your teenagers per day
- Books you read per week
- Phone conversations you had with your distant (in km) family per quarter
- Random acts of kindness you did in the week
- Lights you forgot to switch off in the day
- And of course hot showers you avoided!
Smartphones have been around for just over 10 years I expect that within the next 20 years they will come with a "life dashboard" application which will give us (or somebody) full control of our lives.
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