There are only a few minutes to go.  The home team is fighting hard to prevent their opposition from scoring while trying to add to their own score.  You look at the scoreboard and see…nothing.  No team names, no scores, nothing.  You have no way of knowing what the score is because nothing has been recorded on the scoreboard.

You go to the bank to check your balance and are told, “Sorry, we don’t let our customers know their balance.”  Imagine that!  Of course it wouldn’t happen.

There wouldn’t be much incentive in watching sport without knowing the score.  And if you didn’t know your bank balance you wouldn’t know how well your savings plan was going or how much you had been spending.  You wouldn’t accept either scenario.

When you play golf you have a scorecard and perhaps a handicap (if you are a club member).  Yet when you practice, what is your scoreboard?  How do you measure whether your practice session is benefitting your golf?  Most players have no idea.  They hit some shots and usually decide whether they had a good session by the final few shots they hit.

Some golfers even hide behind the fact that there was no official measurement of their round.  I’ll ask players what they scored and they say they aren’t sure, except when they have played well…strange that…

Thomas Monson said “When we deal in generalities, we shall never succeed.  When we deal in specifics, we shall rarely have a failure.  When performance is measured, performance improves.  When performance is measured and reported, the rate of performance accelerates.”

This is a universal truth.  What is so important to you that you demand it is measured?