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My system for achieving goals 🎯

2024-06-03 · Short · Ali · recording, 0:40 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Goals, purpose and life design · mode: Explanation and tutorial

Ali walks through his goal, plan, system frame on writing books: a deliberately vague goal of a book every few years, a Notion page of eight book ideas as the plan, and 500 words a day tracked in a Google Sheet or the Streaks app as the system.

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00:00:00 — Goal, plan and system for writing future books

  • ★★ Ali says he does not really believe in SMART goals: they work but can be too specific, and a vague goal, such as writing and publishing a book every few years, is sometimes totally fine. — 00:00:00 · GPS: goal, plan, system
  • ★★ Having written Feel-Good Productivity, Ali wants to write future books; his loose goal is to write and publish a book every few years. — 00:00:00 · Feel-Good Productivity (book)
  • ★★ Ali's plan for his future books is a Notion page listing eight book ideas; he reckons the next one will be either the fitness book or another personal development book. (hedged) — 00:00:00 · Notion
  • ★★ Ali's system for his book goal is to write 500 words a day, which he thinks will probably get him there, and to track it in a Google Sheet or the Streaks app on his Apple Watch to make sure he actually does it. (hedged) — 00:00:29 · GPS: goal, plan, system, Google Sheets, Apple Watch

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Central: GPS: goal, plan, system

Also: Apple Watch · Feel-Good Productivity (book) · Google Sheets · Notion · SMART goals · Streaks

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