Last night our almost 2-year old wanted nothing to do with dinner.

Last night our almost 2-year old wanted nothing to do with dinner.

He refused to sit down. Refused to eat. Just refused.

During this refusal session, I started to think back to our worst time of feeding him. He was breastfeeding and the doctor said he needed to gain weight. We took things seriously in only the way first-time parents could take things seriously. We timed every second he ate. We then added that time to a spreadsheet. The spreadsheet had a formula we made up that turned seconds of eating into ounces of milk. Every day was a new sheet. Every session a new row. All summed for daily and weekly reports. The document was beautiful and we were miserable.

One day, we said this needs to stop. We put away the stopwatch and closed the spreadsheet. He kept eating and kept growing and we were much happier.

When you’re a small team and have too much on your plate sometimes more data is too much data. Do the best you can to do the right thing and trust it will pay off.