Episode 7: What Are We Even Measuring? Why Productivity Isn't Progress
In this episode of Disrupting Default, we expose year-end reflection for what it really is: auditing your life like a business quarter, reducing an entire year of living to a productivity report.
We explore how you're measuring, counting, tallying up your life like it's a balance sheet – beating yourself up about everything you didn't accomplish or making lists of everything you're going to accomplish next year. When did we start treating ourselves like businesses that need to show quarterly growth? You're asking "Did I hit my goals?" and "Am I where I thought I'd be?" – but these are questions about external metrics, not internal transformation.
This episode traces our measurement obsession back to its fundamental flaw: we're confusing productivity with progress. Books read, workouts completed, projects finished – these are metrics of activity, not growth. Real progress is invisible and unmeasurable: becoming a better listener, learning to rest without guilt, finally stopping abandoning yourself to please others. You can't put "learned to sit with discomfort" on your year-end review, but that's where actual transformation happens.
Tune in to discover why the gap between where you thought you'd be and where you are isn't failure – it's misalignment, why we set goals based on what we thought we should want instead of what matters, and what happens when you stop judging your year by what you can count. Spoiler alert: the expectations were wrong to begin with, and progress doesn't follow the timeline you thought it should.
Perfect for anyone entering 2026 with another resolution list designed to prove you're enough, feeling like you "didn't accomplish enough" this year, stuck in the grief of unmet expectations, or ready to stop reducing your life to a spreadsheet.
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Episode 7: What Are We Even Measuring? Why Productivity Isn't Progress
In this episode of Disrupting Default, we expose year-end reflection for what it really is: auditing your life like a business quarter, reducing an entire year of living to a productivity report.
We explore how you're measuring, counting, tallying up your life like it's a balance sheet – beating yourself up about everything you didn't accomplish or making lists of everything you're going to accomplish next year. When did we start treating ourselves like businesses that need to show quarterly growth? You're asking "Did I hit my goals?" and "Am I where I thought I'd be?" – but these are questions about external metrics, not internal transformation.
This episode traces our measurement obsession back to its fundamental flaw: we're confusing productivity with progress. Books read, workouts completed, projects finished – these are metrics of activity, not growth. Real progress is invisible and unmeasurable: becoming a better listener, learning to rest without guilt, finally stopping abandoning yourself to please others. You can't put "learned to sit with discomfort" on your year-end review, but that's where actual transformation happens.
Tune in to discover why the gap between where you thought you'd be and where you are isn't failure – it's misalignment, why we set goals based on what we thought we should want instead of what matters, and what happens when you stop judging your year by what you can count. Spoiler alert: the expectations were wrong to begin with, and progress doesn't follow the timeline you thought it should.
Perfect for anyone entering 2026 with another resolution list designed to prove you're enough, feeling like you "didn't accomplish enough" this year, stuck in the grief of unmet expectations, or ready to stop reducing your life to a spreadsheet.
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Episode 7: What Are We Even Measuring? Why Productivity Isn't Progress
In this episode of Disrupting Default, we expose year-end reflection for what it really is: auditing your life like a business quarter, reducing an entire year of living to a productivity report.
We explore how you're measuring, counting, tallying up your life like it's a balance sheet – beating yourself up about everything you didn't accomplish or making lists of everything you're going to accomplish next year. When did we start treating ourselves like businesses that need to show quarterly growth? You're asking "Did I hit my goals?" and "Am I where I thought I'd be?" – but these are questions about external metrics, not internal transformation.
This episode traces our measurement obsession back to its fundamental flaw: we're confusing productivity with progress. Books read, workouts completed, projects finished – these are metrics of activity, not growth. Real progress is invisible and unmeasurable: becoming a better listener, learning to rest without guilt, finally stopping abandoning yourself to please others. You can't put "learned to sit with discomfort" on your year-end review, but that's where actual transformation happens.
Tune in to discover why the gap between where you thought you'd be and where you are isn't failure – it's misalignment, why we set goals based on what we thought we should want instead of what matters, and what happens when you stop judging your year by what you can count. Spoiler alert: the expectations were wrong to begin with, and progress doesn't follow the timeline you thought it should.
Perfect for anyone entering 2026 with another resolution list designed to prove you're enough, feeling like you "didn't accomplish enough" this year, stuck in the grief of unmet expectations, or ready to stop reducing your life to a spreadsheet.
