Welcome To My Island

I haven’t been blogging for a long time (consistently anyway), but in the time I have, I have found that I tend to spend more time checking stats than doing actual work.  It’s as if I hope to one day just check my stats and see that magically I made a ton of money without having to do a lot of work.

That likely will NEVER happen.

It also seems that I’m not alone in my stat checking obsession.  Looking around you can see many bloggers talking about how often they check stats.  I have seen many say that it is their favorite thing to do.  I would have to say that it is a GREAT feeling to check your stats and find that you made more money than yesterday, or that your traffic is improving.

The problem, however, is that it takes time.  In the time that I spend checking stats, I could be working on IMPROVING my stats.

Checking stats has become almost an obsession.  Honestly, how often does someone need to check their stats? I know that I usually check my stats 3+ times a day.  Checking it that often just wastes my time!

That is why, for this whole month, I propose a “Stat Checking Ban” until the last day of the month.  I am going to go without checking any kind of stats for the whole month.  No checking of any kind of earnings, traffic, referral, or any other stats. If it works out well I may keep it going, and only allow myself to check stats only ONCE a month at the end of the month.

What do you think? How often do you check your stats? How often do you think someone SHOULD check their stats?