How I monitor progress

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I am a big fan of dashboards, I use them on my business, I use them in my hobbies, and I use them on Steemit. A dashboard is simply a bird's eye view of KPIs (key performance indicator or also known as a metric) in single consolidated view. This sounds complicated, but it is rather simple.

Good information greatly increases your chances of success. It's easy to go overboard, too much information and the noise drowns the signal and will reduce your efficiency.

My STEEM daily dashboard

Currently set at a weekly view, I can toggle any time period I like. I typically use weekly or monthly as it allows me to see my progress changes from the last time period.

This is my main dashboard for my profile, I also have some dashboards my bots and some global data of what's going on around me. The data is gathered from a SQL database and updates the charts on a regular basis (from 1 minute to 24 hours depending on how volatile the metric is).

To make the most use out of a dashboard you should have it on a dedicated TV or monitor. This way you can quickly glance at it on a regular basis. My TV cycles through many dashboards on a 30-second delay.

It is easy to fall prey to measuring everything, but doing so is very counterproductive as you tend to lose critical data in the process. You focus on the wrong metrics and lose sight of your key performance indicators or you just stop paying attention as there is too much information to process.

Knowing what to measure takes practice and at what level. Do you break down your metrics or use aggregate data, how often do you capture the data? Once you figure out the answer to these questions, building a dashboard that helps you on a daily basis is the easy part.

One of the benefits of a good dashboard is the time saved hunting down information in many different areas.

Think of what is important to your daily success, boil it down to metrics you can measure, and boil it down to one view. Use that on a daily basis to keep track of your progress, but most importantly change direction when you need to!