I stopped looking

I had a rough week a couple months ago. Numbers were flat, motivation was low, and I was opening my analytics dashboard like 20 times a day hoping something would change. It never did.

So I just stopped. Not intentionally. I forgot one day, then the next, then suddenly two weeks had passed.

When I finally opened it back up, expecting a disaster, I found roughly the same numbers. No crash. No spike. Just the slow steady nothing I'd been obsessively watching.

Part of me felt relief. Part of me felt something worse—like the thing I'd been pouring all my anxiety into didn't actually need me watching it every day.

I don't know if this means I should check less, or if it means my product is too stable to matter, or if I've been mistaking "watching" for "working" this whole time.

How often do you check your metrics? And have you ever taken a break from them—did it change anything, or just change how you felt?