A take on personal OKRs & daily/weekly/monthly planning.
Taylor Pearson’s system for connected goal-setting & moving toward who you want to be. Cal Newport has a similar method he calls “Multi-scale Planning”.
Antifragile Planning is a series of selection, execution, and review cycles, broken out on an escalating timeline, to ensure the day-to-day activities are in alignment with your overall goals and continue to be the most effective things.
Steps
Quarterly
- Refine a 25 Year Vision for yourself, describing who you want to become
- Pick a quarterly goal - something you can deliver in 90 days to move you toward that vision
Monthly
Pick 1-3 key results to focus on for the month to move you toward your 90 day goal.
Weekly
Pick 1-3 key things to focus on each week to move you toward your monthly goal. Establish KPIs for those focus areas. Use a mix of Lagging Measures and Leading Measures.
Daily
Pick 1-3 highest priority things to move you toward your weekly goal. 3 Goals a Day
Each day, don’t think so much about “if this week’s thing is the thing you should be doing”. That only undermines progress. Trust the decision you made was valid. Work the task at hand as focused as you can. During your next evaluation period you can see whether it’s still the right choice. Trust that. Apply your best effort so that, if it fails, you know it wasn’t due to lack of effort.
This is a Decide and Move On framework.