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Loved this! RE: crafting your own KPIs, I don't know if you're on Strava, but I created a group a couple years ago for people who like to track their elevation gain (in any activity or all activities). It's not a big deal but I thought it might be worth mentioning: https://www.strava.com/clubs/1148977

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Oh heck yes, I'm in! How do people have so much climbing already by MOnday?!? haha

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Through observing this group, I have discovered that people are insane

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Good advice! Thanks Seth!

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Love that sentiment. Keep up the good work.

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Happy New Year, Seth. Loved the interview with Frederick Woodruff, too. Can we clone you guys? :D

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Excited to be reworking my personal site this year too. It's very much an outdated space that links to other places. A key focus is going to be designing as low-carbon as possible, which is a challenge for an inherently visual portfolio. I've got some fun experiments lined up!

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Looking to get my website setup (again) this year. Thank you for the great advice Set : D

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Heck yes!

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Love the elevation KPI and that’s an impressive amount of stairs climbed last year! Are you tracking again this year?

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Oh, absolutely, I am. At almost 1,800' so far, and just 98,200' for more to go!

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Completely on board with using my website as an alternative to what I'd be posting on socials. I have a WIX website, and it has a blog function that would fit this bill perfectly. Such a great idea.

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YESSS. We put all this cool stuff up on socials, and then our website is just this boring old placeholder. At least re-use that cool stuff (that like 5% of your audience sees on social media)!

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This is great. I'm going to add a tab on my site and starting adding mini updates and posts there. I don't want to call it a blog though so if anyone has any fun names i would love it

Hmmm because you like to run i think i should

Measure me doing squats and situps just because that's fun and easy

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Squats and situps fun and easy?! GET IT!

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I have a band and a tattoo studio, most important KPI is happiness of my partner

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Glad no one got stabbed, bitten or otherwise!

Fully on board with these ideas, especially developing personal KPIs. For what it's worth, the four I try to keep track of daily are: ways in which I practiced creativity, what I learned, what I experienced, who I spent time with. And since social media gives me metrics on precisely none of these, I resort to good ol' pen and paper.

Cheers and happy new year!

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I’m currently working on no. 1 since I won’t be posting my daily activities (lol) on IG, TT, or other social media platforms. I remember building my first website when I was a teenager in the early 2000s. Then, MySpace took over and forgot all about it. Now, I’m realizing how important it is to have a personal website.

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Yikes, good thing you had those hiking poles!

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Right?!! Those dogs were TOO close for comfort. I mean, they were TERRORIZING me, but fuck - I’m just out trying to have a nice calm run. I shouldn’t have to deal with that.

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I loathe people who have dogs off leash who do not listen. “But they are friendly” - great, tell that to my reactive dogs….

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Exactly!!! I don’t know they’re friendly… also, I don’t care! I’ve encountered 30 years of dogs of all types, chased on the bicycle, situations like this on the trails… I’m just trying to enjoy the park!

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Yeah, I know the feeling - just trying to walk to the store on the sidewalk in my city. Too many dog people think they are the "exception to the rule".

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Really tired of the C word.

and yes to reaching out, majority of my clients have graciously kept me around just by remembering their birthdays or following up how their bird tree backhouse built went.

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Heck yes, you get it!!

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I really like the idea of 1. I am sure I’ve seen some good Wordpress themes for that, but years ago. I might have a little search over the weekend to see what I can find.

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I'm still using Twenty Sixteen! https://sethw.xyz/

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