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
Exercise: Purpose
Section titled “Exercise: Purpose”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 _
Exercise Output Example
Section titled “Exercise Output Example”-
Adapted my mission statement: My purpose is to pursue peace and feel with nature and helping others feel the same.
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Think top 3 childhood memories and write down feelings you had:
- peace
- understanding
- with nature
- joy
- creative
- wonder
- powerful
- love
- unbound
- connection
- peace
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3 negative emotions:
- Anger: selfishness, lack of care to others
- Heartbreak: injustice, discrimination, destruction of people/nature
- Envy: privileges of others, relationships
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My life’s work is to help people facing destruction and injustice by caring for others through building relationships.
Exercise: Life dreams
Section titled “Exercise: Life dreams”- 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
- By the end of quarter 1, I will be a who, with a
what by how how many
because why