There’s been a lot of focus on follower counts, friend counts, subscriber counts, viewer counts and readers as of late. And, those are important metrics the from the standpoint of expanding your impact on the world…and potentially, your income.

But, sometimes I wonder if we’re spending too much time on the wrong metric…

Here’s what I care about:

• I care about writing something so raw and real, it moves people beyond laughter, beyond tears, beyond breathlessness, to action


• I care about the lush aroma of razor-thin sliced garlic, aged olive-oil and vidalia onions wafting through the kitchen on a lazy Sunday, emboldened by notch-too-loud Led Zeppelin and a glass of red wine that dances me from counter to counter as I create a dinner feast for my wife and little girl.


• I care that my astonishingly beautiful, kind and brilliant wife feels loved, feels safe, feels supported and free to be who she needs to be in the world


• I care about driving along on cool summer night, windows down, palm snaking through in the wind while Sweet Child of Mine fills the air.


• I care about ridin