Wow, this is impressive! Thank you for the motivation and sharing your experience. As a new-ish writer to Medium I feel I am ruled by checking stats and praying for curation and you are right - IT DOES TAKE AWAY FROM MY PROCESS AND WHY I WRITE!!! Thank you! I am going to set small goals like not checking for one day, and hopefully get to a month...smalls steps. Thanks again for this fantastic article, please know how much it touched me and like you said, that is what matters :)