Richard Canfield breaks down life into four measurable categories: health, relationships, recreation, and wealth. He took a ten-year sabbatical from 2005 to 2015 to raise his children, and argues that tracking these numbers is how you actually manage your life.
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Now granted it's certain levels or categories if you will, which I teach in this model is health, relationship, recreation and wealth and you can score these and so forth. But the idea is that what gets measured gets managed, right? And that came from Deming back in the whole continuous improvement. Then the Japanese took and call it kaizen. If you understand the root problem that you're trying to solve for the vast, vast, vast majority of people out there there's such a simple system to solve their problem. I mean it's staggering how difficult people make life. Man, you got all these things going on. I mean I had all the stuff right and I took a 10 year sabbatical to raise my kids and thank God I did it. Had it planned from May of 05 to May of 15 away from day to day operations and I'd be dead if I didn't do that. There's no question.