SMARTER goals

a good improvement on classic SMART goal setting technique
How to Set Goals You’ll Actually Achieve - Michael Hyatt

1. "Write specific goals. The more focused your goal, the more you will find yourself motivated to accomplish it. If a goal is too vague it can be hard to know where to even start.
2. Goals should be measurable. As you write your goal, you need to ensure that it has built in markers for what it would mean to achieve it. You should be able to break the goal down into specific milestones along the way in order to track your progress.
3. Make your goals actionable. Use action verbs to help ensure that your goals define what it is you are going to do. This type of goal will prompt you into action. This will help you throughout the year to stay motivated.
4. Risky goals are better than playing it safe. I challenge you as you write your goals for this next year, to make them ones that will stretch and challenge you. If you set goals that you know you can achieve you aren’t forcing yourself to rise to the challenge.
5. SMARTER goals must be time bound. The most successful goals are those with a sense of urgency. But how can you ensure that your goals will trigger that response in you throughout the year? You need to time-key your goals with either a deadline, frequency or a time trigger.
6. Create exciting goals. An exciting goal is one that connects with your internal motivation and inspires. This is a critical step. If your goal isn’t compelling to you personally then it will be very difficult to stick with it when obstacles come up. And they will.
7. Set relevant goals. I look at this as a necessary “gut-check”. Before you commit to your goals, you must review them and ensure that they are taking into account your life circumstances as well as your values. What you hope to achieve this year must be balanced with the reality of your circumstances."

book review:
YOUR BEST YEAR EVER by Michael Hyatt | Core Message - YouTube
1-Page PDF Summary: https://www.productivitygame.com/summ...

Your Best Year Ever: A 5-Step Plan for Achieving Your Most Important Goals: Hyatt, Michael, Hyatt, Michael: 9781545900659: Amazon.com: Books





5 Steps to Achieving Your Best Year Ever | Soundview Magazine

1. Design Your Future. Great results don’t usually just happen. You need to find the clarity you need so you can create the life you want. There are 7 keys to transforming our resolutions, aspiration, and dreams into compelling written goals. Each must be Specific, Measurable, Actionable, Risky, Time-keyed, Exciting, and Relevant (SMARTER).

Goals: 3, for day, week, month, year... (book: The Gap and The Gain)

5 Journal Prompts You Should Answer EVERY 30 days | Dr. Benjamin Hardy - YouTube

"journaling is the master tool
there's so much research on journaling as a tool for clearing your mind"

every 30 days just sit down and answer these five questions

1. Where am I right now
2. what are my wins from the last 30 days
3. what are main 3 goals for the next 30 days
4. main 3 goals for the next 12 months
5. main 3 goals for the next 3 years

"We are kept from our goal, not by obstacles, but by a clear path to a lesser goal."
- Robert Brault (quoting Hindu scripture The Bhagavad Gita)

If You Want To Achieve Your Dreams Faster, WATCH THIS! | Dr. Benjamin Hardy - YouTube

goal: "one key outcome" => reverse engineer the path to it

"If you've got more than three priorities, you have none." - Jim Collins

"success is about taking 20 steps in one direction 

whereas busyness is about taking one step in 20 different directions"

Anatomy of a Perfect Morning Routine | Dr. Benjamin Hardy - YouTube

How To Plan Your Week Effectively | Dr. Benjamin Hardy - YouTube

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FREE ebook: The Gap an the Gain

Amazon.com: The Gap and The Gain: The High Achievers' Guide to Happiness, Confidence, and Success eBook : Hardy, Benjamin, Sullivan, Dan: Kindle Store

optimize: Habits

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Habits 101

Optimizing Algorithms 101


Tiny Habits by B. J. Fogg
The Small Changes That Change Everything

Atomic Habits by James Clear
An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones

The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg
Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business

The Compound Effect by Darren Hardy
Jumpstart Your Income, Your Life, Your Success

The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande
How to Get Things Right

   

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The Hero's Journey

 

Hero's journey - Wikipedia

the hero's journey, or the monomyth, is the common template of stories that involve a hero who goes on an adventure, is victorious in a decisive crisis, and comes home changed or transformed.

The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life and Work (The Collected Works of Joseph Campbell): Campbell, Joseph, Cousineau, Phil, Brown, Stuart L.: 0783324814934: Amazon.com: Books

FINDING JOE | Full Movie (HD) | Deepak Chopra, Robin Sharma, Rashida Jones, Sir Ken Robinson - YouTube

A story about Joseph Campbell and The Hero's Journey.

Let's teach for mastery: Sal Khan

 Sal Khan: Let's teach for mastery -- not test scores | TED Talk

"Would you choose to build a house on top of an unfinished foundation? Of course not. Why, then, do we rush students through education when they haven't always grasped the basics? Yes, it's complicated, but educator Sal Khan shares his plan to turn struggling students into scholars by helping them master concepts at their own pace."

Let's teach for mastery -- Not test Scores

• Students need to master basic skills before learning more difficult material
• Teachers should focus on students retention of material
• Our ability to learn and solve difficult problems depends on mastery of concepts
  
  
Would you choose to build a house on top of an unfinished foundation? Of course not.
Why do we rush students through education when they haven't always grasped the basics?

Learn Faster with the Feynman Technique

Feynman Technique - Wikipedia

"The Feynman Technique is a learning method named after Richard Feynman.^[1][2] In this technique, a person explains the concept they're learning to themselves in a simple way to find gaps in their knowledge.

The Feynman Technique is a mental model to convey information using concise thoughts and simple language.^[3] 

Feynman Technique - Wiki | Golden

The technique uses four steps to obtain information and gauge the genuine understanding of the individual learning it.

1. Choose a topic or idea that you want to gauge your comprehension on; it can be a topic that is completely new to you or something that you already know. Write down this topic in a notebook or on a piece, followed by everything you know about it and everything you are learning about it.
2. Write an explanation using simple language about the topic in the notebook as if you were teaching a class on it.
3. Observe the gaps in your knowledge on the topic and return to studying about those specific gaps.
4. Simplify your explanation in number 2. This can be done using analogies and simpler language.

The Feynman Technique: The Best Way to Learn Anything - Farnam Street

1. Choose a concept you want to learn about
2. Explain it to a 12 year old
3. Reflect, Refine, and Simplify
4. Organize and Review

How to learn anything with the Feynman Technique - Ness Labs

How to Learn Anything Faster With The Feynman Technique | LinkedIn

How to Learn Faster with the Feynman Technique (Example Included) - YouTube

What Does “ELI5” Mean, and How Do You Use It?

ELI5 stands for “explain like I’m 5.” When people use it online, they’re asking others to explain a complex or obscure topic in the simplest of terms. So, if taken literally, they would explain something in a way that a 5-year-old would understand.