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!