Episode 07: What are we even Measuring?

What Are We Even Measuring? (Why Productivity Isn't Progress)Year-end reflection isn't self-awareness – it's auditing your life like a business quarter, reducing an entire year of living to a productivity report where success equals completed items and failure equals unfinished projects.In this episode, Hema and Mike expose how we've turned the end of the year into a reckoning where you measure your worth by what you can count. You're taking mental inventory, comparing yourself to where you thought you'd be, making lists of everything you did and didn't do, then judging yourself based on output. But here's the truth: you're measuring the wrong things entirely. You're confusing productivity with progress, and it's making you miss what actually matters.In this episode, you'll discover:• Why productivity measures activity (output, efficiency, volume) while progress is about internal transformation • The real metrics of growth that can't be quantified: becoming a better listener, learning to rest without guilt, stopping self-abandonment • Why "I didn't accomplish enough" is a signal to ask: enough for whom? By what standard? • How the gap between where you thought you'd be and where you are isn't failure – it's misalignment • Why you set goals based on what you thought you should want, not what actually matters to you • The timeline illusion: why progress isn't linear and doesn't fit into a year-end review • What it looks like to measure your life by meaning instead of outputFrom treating yourself like a business that needs to show growth to entering January with another resolution list, we break down why the metrics you're using to judge your year are fundamentally flawed, and why your life is too important to be reduced to a spreadsheet.Ready to disrupt the measurement default? Tune in now.Perfect for: Anyone entering 2026 with another set of goals designed to prove you're enough, beating themselves up about unmet expectations, stuck in the grief of where they thought they'd be, or ready to define progress in a way that honors the messy, non-linear, unmeasurable reality of being human.

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