I am a fan of process. Whether physical or sociological, I like the journey.
I’m a fan of process monitoring too. Improvements can be made in most systems if we act on both our leading effectiveness and process efficiency measures.
I’ll stop the infinite regress with my fandom of the process of designing process monitoring. This is not as nerdy as it seems, especially when it is called by its common name—gamifying.
One important component of any great game is that it has a fair points system that measures participants’ skill and encourages them to greater levels of achievement. In business this can be product yield or profitability, sprint execution timeliness or contractual recurring revenue, increased output, improved quality, or reduced costs; personally we might measure our hours of practice, reduced cholesterol, or—in terms of my to-do list—karma points!
Todoist (not an affiliate link) is a great To-Do list that gamifies the planning and execution of tasks into karma points. At an average of 20 points per day, the achievement of karmic enlightenment in execution (50,000 points) took me (with a year-long hiatus to try other to-do lists) over 9 years to accomplish.
9 years, 5 months, 2 weeks, 5 days after you first started your Todoist journey on Jun 28 2013, you’ve joined just 0.05% of all Todoist users to ever reach Todoist Karma Enlightenment.
I wrote a book, ran a marathon, changed jobs, bought a new house and made a few renovations, went on a few overseas vacations, and lots of other fun stuff thanks (in part) to my pursuit of execution enlightenment—a journey of 50,000 well-gamified, monitored process management points!