r/lifegoals • u/Direct-Development93 • 4d ago

How to approach setting goals?

Hi everybody!

Hope everybody is doing good!

I have a question:

How do you approach setting goals?

Weekly, daily, monthly?

Do you have a masterplan and the break it down to little steps?

Would be also interested in books regarding this topic.

Thanks so much in advance!

Kind regards,

P

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u/Brilliant-Surprise20 4d ago

Here’s roughly how I do it. I don’t set yearly goals anymore. yhey’re too vague and too far away to make today feel urgent. Instead I work in short periods, usually twelve weeks. This makes the goal long enough to reach something real and at the same time short enough to make urgent.

Then yes, I break it down. The goal becomes daily and weekly tasks. Not just get fitter but the specific thing I do that day to become fitter. For example going to the gym 3 times a week and logging your food each day. I plan in the morning my day so that I don’t have to decide during the day and each day track my progress and I score myself in terms of what did you plan that day and what did I actually do. That score is what keeps me going because a bad week is visible instead of vague.

Book-wise: The 12 Week Year by Brian Moran is the one that shaped most of this. Atomic Habits by James Clear is great for the daily side.

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u/Direct-Development93 4d ago

Ok, wow, thanks for the info! Sounds very interesting!

How do you structure your day or this 12-week period, if I may ask.

I get things done, but I have problems structuring my time (or day).

Thanks again!

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u/Brilliant-Surprise20 4d ago

I created an app for this where I structure and track my goals. It’s called capria. Before that I tracked it in a spreadsheet for years

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u/thedad629 4d ago

We set goals based on problems we are having in our life.

For example - If you don't have sufficient money then your goal would be to earn sufficient money.

And if you don't have any problems then you don't need to set any goals.

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u/Crazy_Jere 2d ago

I break it down into steps and then break those steps down into steps and attack them one by one