Difference between revisions of "Use Quantified Self Strategies to Improve Your Life"

{{fa}}"Quantified Self" is a movement that has emerged to counteract taking a distracted, haphazard approach to everything in life, instead encouraging you to focus squarely on achieving the things that matter to you. Rather than getting caught up in just getting through each day any which way, the Quantified Self uses various self-tracking methods to "quantify" your approach to your life and goals, often helping you to see where things are changing (or need to change) to improve your life. Quantified Self makes use of a variety of methods that have been proven to be effective at tracking nearly anything ranging from work and exercise to sleep, mood, weight and even energy usage. Whether you prefer pen and paper, phone apps, online tracking devices or charts, graphs and lists, using the Quantified Self approach can be a productive and enjoyable way for you to track progress surrounding your professional and personal endeavors.

{{fa}}"Quantified Self" is a movement that has emerged to counteract taking a distracted, haphazard approach to everything in life, instead encouraging you to focus squarely on achieving the things that matter to you. Rather than getting caught up in just getting through each day any which way, the Quantified Self uses various self-tracking methods to "quantify" your approach to your life and goals, often helping you to see where things are changing (or need to change) to improve your life. Quantified Self makes use of a variety of methods that have been proven to be effective at tracking nearly anything ranging from work and exercise to sleep, mood, weight and even energy usage. Whether you prefer pen and paper, phone apps, online tracking devices or charts, graphs and lists, using the Quantified Self approach can be a productive and enjoyable way for you to track progress surrounding your professional and personal endeavors.

== Steps ==

== Steps ==

# Consider whether you're already self-tracking in some part of your life. Many of us self-track in certain parts of our lives without necessarily equating it with the concept of "self-tracking." For example, runners and walkers who wear step monitoring equipment to measure how far they're running or walking are self-tracking. Even people who keep a journal to gain control over emotions and to self-explain events in life are self-tracking because they're able to review emotions and feelings from the past and gauge these against the way they are in the present. Self-tracking is a good way of setting goals, measuring their progress, and meeting them with certifiable points through the process that can help motivate, invigorate, and ultimately bring you to congratulate yourself. If you're already doing some form of self-tracking, you're going to find it even easier to increase your use of it to other areas of your life.

# Consider whether you're already self-tracking in some part of your life. Many of us self-track in certain parts of our lives without necessarily equating it with the concept of "self-tracking." For example, runners and walkers who wear step monitoring equipment to measure how far they're running or walking are self-tracking. Even people who keep a journal to gain control over emotions and to self-explain events in life are self-tracking because they're able to review emotions and feelings from the past and gauge these against the way they are in the present. Self-tracking is a good way of setting goals, measuring their progress, and meeting them with certifiable points through the process that can help motivate, invigorate, and ultimately bring you to congratulate yourself. If you're already doing some form of self-tracking, you're going to find it even easier to increase your use of it to other areas of your life.