Indicators

Pull out the items that are only measurements standing in for something else. They are readings on a dial, not the goal, function, or mechanism itself. Once labeled this way, they stop competing with the things they were meant to track.

Pull out the items that are only measurements standing in for something else. They are readings on a dial, not the goal, function, or mechanism itself. Once labeled this way, they stop competing with the things they were meant to track.

Example

From the decade list, "wake up earlier" is really a reading you would check, along with two others you add: hours of one-on-one time with your kid per week, and months of expenses saved. None of the three is a goal. Each measures whether a mechanism below it is working.