This little cartoon panel shows just one way to use Engines that is probably not readily apparent to most … Can you think of others? (comment below)

And here’s a quick video showing you exactly how to do that when you log in …

(total viewing time: 1 minutes 45 seconds)

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Short version: That which you measure, improves. Start recording stuff (any “stuff” – your body fat percentage, push-ups, sales, whatever …) in Trackers and the act of doing so will cause you to improve it.

But most people forget the second part of Pearson’s law …

“That which is measured improves. That which is measured and reported improves exponentially.”

With the new “Publish Trackers” feature, you can report what you track to the world – dynamically in real-time – by pasting a single line of code to your blog or website.

As you can see here, it will produce a dynamic real-time line diagram that would make Edward Tufte proud:

And you can display it in an almost infinite variety of shapes …

… sizes ….

… and colors. …

How do you do it? It’s so easy, you can learn to do it in less than a minute …

Step 1. Visit the Trackers page and click on the new “publish” button …

Step 2. You’ll see this pop up … Tweak the options. Copy the code.

Step 3. Paste it into any website or blog.

That’s it.

This feature is available to all Simpleology account types. Use it for diet and exercise progress, fund raising goals, sales … Anything.

Now go forth and start reporting!

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Pearson’s Law states …

“That which is measured improves. That which is measured and reported improves exponentially.”

Karl Pearson

If you’ve ever kept a tracking chart for anything you wanted to improve, you know this is true.  The effect borders on the miraculous.   Trackers find themselves taking enormous action to improve the things they track almost unconsciously.

With the new Trackers feature, you can keep track of as many “metrics” as you like right inside your Simpleology account.  This quick video will get you up and running with your first tracker  …

(watch in youtube at full screen and 720p high-res for best results)

This new feature is free to all Simpleology users.

Before you log in and start playing with it, three quick notes …

First, it’s in “beta” but from my testing it’s pretty close to flawless, so don’t be scared by the beta label.

Next, we’re going to be adding some very interesting things to the Trackers feature in the future, so get started tracking things now so you can take advantage of the surprising stuff you’ll be able to do with this feature later on.

Finally, in the spirit of the Kankyo Kaizen “movement” we started last week, let’s start another movement together:  the Trackers movement.  Comment below telling the world what you’ll start tracking.  Then start tracking it, see what happens, and report back your results.

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