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Cause and Effects

Being Rich, Healthy and Fit are effects.

Falling in love with effects won't get them 

you need to start working on the cause(s)

Keith J Cunningham, The Road less Stupid

If you are not getting the outcome then the cause

you are not working upon the right causes 

For example, say body weight reduction is the desired outcome:

Stepping on the  bathroom scale is  KPI (key performance indicator) lagging metric

KPI helps in knowing where you are:

but you need to know what will impact your weight? 

In case of weight : it is diet and exercise -

actual causes that impact will impact weight reduction

so start measuring diet consumption - Calorie input

and Physical exercise - Calorie burnt

measure the causes not the effects

to give calculus analogy : 

y = f(x) ; weight = f(diet, exercise)

Great performers focus on causes : 

fantastic performers focus on rate of causes : dx/dt : 

improve the rate of performance! 



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