SCRIPT CHECK · 60 SECONDS
Five quick questions show how often it appears, how believable it feels, and what it makes you avoid. You’ll get one private next step.
This is not a diagnosis and there is no pass or fail. It measures the current frequency, credibility, and behavioral cost of “My metrics look worse because I'm the one who logs the bad months”, including the private rule underneath it: If I was the one who recorded the slump, then the slump counts more than the recovery. Clean months can be explained away, but the bad months feel like the truest thing on the sheet, so I treat them as the verdict and edit my view around…
QUIET
“My metrics look worse because I'm the one who logs the bad months” appears, but it rarely gets the final say. Keep this line available for higher-pressure moments: “I’m not inventing the bad month by logging it. I’m keeping the record honest.”
PRESENT
“My metrics look worse because I'm the one who logs the bad months” wins some small decisions before you catch it. Your useful interruption is: “A rough stretch is part of the timeline, not proof that the whole company is sinking.”
ACTIVE
“My metrics look worse because I'm the one who logs the bad months” is shaping action often enough to deserve a deliberate counterexample. Start privately and concretely: Open your last six months of metrics and add a private label to each month in one word only: up, flat, or rough. Do not change any numbers. Just mark the pattern and close the file.
DOMINANT
Right now, “My metrics look worse because I'm the one who logs the bad months” is steering many of the moments you measured. That is a pattern reading, not a diagnosis or character verdict. Begin with one reversible receipt: Open your last six months of metrics and add a private label to each month in one word only: up, flat, or rough. Do not change any numbers. Just mark the pattern and close the file.