If you have clear goals, don’t measure the progress of anything else. You may find yourself sometimes measuring progress of things that are not part of your goals but you measure them because you notice someone else is doing well at them. As soon as you caught yourself doing that, drop the measure and get back to your work. We easily get distracted from working on our goals by the attractive things around us. If we don’t build the discipline of ignoring the distractions, we lose a tremendous amount of time chasing something that is not on the list of our priorities.