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Your goal could be to lose weight. That's great but it's not actionable. An actionable goal is "go to the gym for 30 min today before lunch to run on the treadm
by stevewodil 6y ago
Your goal could be to lose weight. That's great but it's not actionable. An actionable goal is "go to the gym for 30 min today before lunch to run on the treadmill." So set that easy and actionable goal and go do it.
What works for me is focusing on at most two or three things at a time. Anything more than that becomes too difficult to keep up. Right now for me those are fitness, working on my startup idea, and reading.
As an example, for fitness I use the two day rule. If I didn't workout yesterday I have to work out today. If I worked out today then I can choose to workout tomorrow, or not. I never go two days in a row without working out. I also workout first thing in the morning so that it's not hanging over my head all day.
It's mostly about scheduling things that you want to do into your day and actually doing them. Give yourself days off if you need them, and plan things out ahead of time.
- deepaksurti 6y agoThis is excellent advise and goes into the `Goals vs Systems` territory. A good sensible and enjoyable read for the same would be Chapter 5 'Goals vs Systems` from [1]. From personal experience, opting for the systems approach has helped me: - Focus on multiple activities (max 4) with time bucketing and ensuring the time bucket has a task that can be done, like the actionable gym example above - You are not worried about reaching the goal, instead you consistently put in the effort and don't feel the void when and if any goal is completed - Systems help a ton in tackling complex or difficult subjects. YMMV and mind you, earlier I was goal focussed and IMHO, got lesser done. [1] https://www.amazon.com/How-Fail-Almost-Everything-Still-ebook/dp/B00COOFBA4 https://www.amazon.com/How-Fail-Almost-Everything-Still-eboo... edit: added the ref [1]