So an “AHA” moment hit me for accountability today, and it’s going to be a whale. I will no longer have MUCH of an excuse to fail or to not do what I’m supposed to do.
I’ve been an OCCASIONAL user of Google Docs for a long time. When I have something–like a policy manual–that needs to be worked on by another person as well as me, I’ve used it. But, being in a semi-self employed state my entire career, my “collabarative” times have not been as frequent as I’d like. That creates its own set of headaches, particularly, lack of accountability.
Since one of my goals is to live a transparent life–with all that it includes–I was thinking it would be clever to track a couple of sets of metrics on Google Spreadsheets. A project that I’ve been dreaming of for my entire life is to have some sort of online-social-goal tracking collaborative tool. I actually started working on something relatively earnestly in 2005–but then the wheels came off my life in a big way, and I went down a funky path. I think it’s time to resume my plan in that area.
What if I tracked (or list #3: things to track):
My Weight
Contacts
Closings
Money given away
Checkbook balance. (ouch).
Loans Submitted
Miles Run
Pages Read
Writing Done
Calories Consumed
Other “toggle” or “discrete” position metrics (didja say your affirmations).
etc.
Daily, absolutely and against some particular goals? What then would my life look like? I think that it would create a stronger system, a more accountable Chris, and some more money I could earn. I think doing it is the first step in really, really, getting to where I want to go, and even though I have (by implication on Stats) about 30-40 readers/subscribers, that’s enough to enhance this blog.
This idea started with me tracking my books on Google Docs.
http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=p
Then….”what if i tracked all of my goals…”
Well, we’ll see what happens.
All eyes up here. This is gonna rock…
To all y’all, I’m going live next week with this.
Anyone care to join me?
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