Episode 07: What are we even Measuring?

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?

This episode traces our measurement obsession back to its fundamental flaw: confusing productivity with progress. Books read, workouts completed, projects finished – these are all external metrics of activity, not transformation. Real progress is invisible: becoming a better listener, learning to rest without guilt, finally stopping abandoning yourself to please others. You can't put that on your resume, but that's where actual change 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 progress isn't linear and doesn't fit into a year-end timeline, and why the metrics you're using to judge yourself are fundamentally wrong. Spoiler alert: you set goals based on what you thought you should want, not what actually matters to you.

Perfect for anyone entering the new year exhausted by the pressure to prove their worth through productivity, or ready to stop treating their life like a spreadsheet.