10,000 Steps Towards A Metric That Matters

• 10,000 steps.
• 14 minutes of deep sleep.
• 257 kcal burned and 1,800 kcal ingested
• 1 hour of cardio exercise.
• 5 hours of docu-series on Netflix
• 5 trips across the globe

BUT:

• 2 hours/day in traffic jams and 10 swear words per minute.
• 9 hours of staring into the screen of the office laptop.
• 1 hour/day wishing you were anywhere else.

We’ve grown enamored with data when talking about our bodies, our health, our spare time as well as our work days. What is the metric that matters? The one Holy Grail you need to push yourself one step closer to the finish line, to achieving your goal?

As I like to say: set up one goal and one KPI to optimize against. In some weird way, life is just like digital analytics. 

You need to find that one metric to report on, to track progress and see how much of your goal you achieve. That’s easy. What’s really hard is figuring out what your priorities are, that’s the biggest challenge of both adulthood and digital analytics. Remember: big data might get you lost among irrelevant metrics, but, just as with any decent pedometer, there’s always that 10,000 steps/day milestone that can point you in the right direction. Figure out which way you want to go and start walking the talk.