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How to Set Systems, Process Goals

Source: My notes from How to Set Systems Instead of Goals, system that will change your life - Alexis Kingsley

  • Have your end in mind - purpose, dreams
  • Goal like Mountain of your dreams
    • Research support larger goal, more likely to achieve it
    • To climb mountain, start with habit, make a plan, implement systems
  • Goal like hill goal - smaller goal

From book: Claim Your Power

  • Think top 3 childhood memories and write down feelings you had
  • Fill in: My purpose is to pursue _ and feel _ helping others feel the same.
  • List 3 areas of negative emotions
    • Fill in things that cause you anger, heartbreak, and envy.
    • Find commonality between those things
    • Use the items to fill in the next bullet
      • Heartbreak: Who you want to help
      • Anger: What issue you want to change
      • Envy: Your next step
  • Fill in: My life’s work is to help _ by _ by _
  • Adapted my mission statement: My purpose is to pursue peace and feel with nature and helping others feel the same.

  • Think top 3 childhood memories and write down feelings you had:

    • peace
    • understanding
    • with nature
    • joy
    • creative
    • wonder
    • powerful
    • love
    • unbound
    • connection
    • peace
  • 3 negative emotions:

    • Anger: selfishness, lack of care to others
    • Heartbreak: injustice, discrimination, destruction of people/nature
    • Envy: privileges of others, relationships
  • My life’s work is to help people facing destruction and injustice by caring for others through building relationships.

  • Start with 10 year dreams
    • Imagine your best possible life, dream big
    • What do you do, relationships, work, food, how do you treat people, body feel, home
    • People tend of over estimate medium term goals (1-5 years), but excel in long term (10+ years) goal progression
  • Write 10 dreams: I am _
  • Review/Write 10 dreams everyday and circle/write the one you are pursuing currently
    • Choose most significant goal that will help others
  • Quarterly dreams:
    • By the end of quarter 1, I will be a who, with a what by how how many because why
      • Who do you want to be?
      • What do you want to have (an outcome that you may not have full control)?
      • How are you going to do it?
        • Verbs, actions
      • How many / how often?
        • Quantity / frequency
      • Why do you want to do it? - purpose
    • Make more specific goals based on how and how many using time periods (week, days, hours)
      • Chunk to daily goals
      • “5 to strive system”
        • 5 days with specific goals
        • Just 5 minutes
        • Acknowledge your estimates and progress may not meet goals at first
    • Move down to habits