A quick little reminder from one of my best buds turned on a light switch this morning as I prepared for The Drive Conference 2009:
Remember,the only measuring tool to measure “worship” on Sunday mornings is the level of surrender in your heart. Not experience & feeling.
I think there’s wisdom here in it’s application for our personal blogs and the metrics that we pull daily (for some of us, at least).
One of the reasons that I’ve started getting rid of a number of analytic packages is because I’m a performance junkie: I’m very interested in the speed and performance of my blog than nearly anything else because I want the user to have the best time possible.
In addition, I’ve now completed my analysis of all of the one’s I’ve been interested and have landed on the two that I feel are the best for my particular usage.
But one of the much larger motivations for getting rid of one of them is because I was spending far too much time looking at it, and that was just gnawing on my soul.
Metrics are good, but the things that can’t be measured are the most important perhaps. Thanks Carlos for the reminder.
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Jim says
I'm there with you on the numbers piece. I've had to take a good look at my commenting and posting and other activity. It's chief end must be to glorify God. I also have to look at the simple fact that I'm getting busier and need to prioritize my time and resources to manage work and family time.
J.C. says
Hey man great post… I agree with you and Carlos. sometimes wish there was a program that could manage our "lifestream" and can manage our surrender. I guess that's what the Holy Spirit is for. Anyway it was awesome to meet you this week. You are much cooler in person than in blog world. Cool to hear your heart to get people involved in technology too!!!
Keep it up John you are awesome!
Ancoti says
Less is more. Or at least less is less distracting.
Brandon Cox says
Now that's true. We live in a results driven society, but some of life's greatest results are completely hidden from sight. One real connection with a soul is better than 10,000 "readers" who don't really care. Great point!
Shaun says
Let's not forget what happened when King David began counting…
human3rror says
definitely. that's a great pont.
Mikes says
Correct!
Phillip Gibb says
🙂
not that you have reason to complain about the performance and reach of your blog 😉
but yeah I know what you mean, I find myself a bit too enamored or frustrated with some numbers related to my blog.
Mikes says
focus…focus…focus on what's more important: CONTENT! Numbers will just come right behind it!