Example Goals
- from Goal-Crafting Intensive participants, shared with permission
- 1st Example
- target, finance, numerical
- goal-title: Reach a monthly income of (Amount)
- goal-info: (measured by a spreadsheet in which I log all my incomes and that calculates the average)
- target, writing, novel
- goal-title: Write my novel
- goal-info: (considered reached when I'll have a readable draft)
- target, health, weight, numerical
- goal-title: Reach and sustain a weight of 87kg with less than 15% bodyfat by the end of 2020
- target, entrepreneurship, business
- goal-title: Launch ABCD and grow it past the point of deficit, by mid 2021
- goal-info: (ABCD is my business)
- 2nd Example
- wellbeing, emotions, mental health, self-therapy, area-of-life
- goal-title: Emotional and Mental Well-Being
- goal-description: I want to develop equanimity, acceptance and resilience.
I want to develop intentionality, mindfulness and confidence.
I want to be well and be motivated.
I will continue my meditation practice, learning and practicing emotional tools, and giving myself slack.
I will take on myself less, and only what I'm excited about. I'll only work with good people.
I commit to taking my wellbeing as the top priority for the current future. - goal-publicity: other users
- goal-top-priority: Choose a good self-therapy process by 2020-07-1
- teaching, admininstrative, area-of-life
- goal-title: Flies and Assemblies
- goal-description: I will make sure that the workshops are great for the students and have interesting results.
I will show interesting results regarding assembly calculus, and publish them or put them online.
These will help me build my strength as an academic researcher and a computer programmer. - goal-publicity: other users
- goal-top-priority: Code review for N's team by 2020-07-18
- EA, community, area-of-life
- goal-title: EA Initiatives
- goal-description: Support EA Israel, the forum and anyone in the EA community.
Run new ideas - be practical and courageous.
Project with Dan Gittik. - goal-publicity: other users
- goal-top-priority: Don't take any more big commitments by 2020-08-01
- lifestyle, productivity, fun, habits, area-of-life
- goal-title: Develop my System
- goal-description: Maintain a healthy, fun and productive lifestyle.
Slowly add on new habits and platforms. - goal-publicity: other users
- goal-top-priority: Daily Strength practice - 14 days in a row by 2020-07-22
- learning, science, target
- goal-title: MetaScience
- goal-description: Understand this domain, and how much this fits me.
Concretely, I want to have done a good literature review, a sort of roadmap and work on the project with Dan Lahav. - goal-publicity: other users
- goal-top-priority: Collect bibliography by 2020-07-09
- learning, research
- goal-number: IR
- goal-title: Improve my research skills
- goal-description: Forecasting, Literature review, roadmapping, problem solving, math confidence, running simulations, data science.
I want to build a good research guide. - goal-start: 2020-06-12
- goal-end: 2020-07-04
- worldview, thinking
- goal-number: DW
- goal-title: Develop my world-view
- goal-description: What do I think of AI-Alignment?
What is the correct path for me in the academia?
How is the most breakthrough research done?
What is lacking in EA?
- 3rd Example
- area-of-life, lifestyle, freedom, growth, adventure
- goal-title: Live a life of freedom, growth and adventure
- target, entrepreneurship, business
- goal-title: Build a science-based business. Incorporate by 2022 - 2024 (Kottabio.com)
- target, project-management, covid (?)
- goal-title: Successfully PM Project ACCESSIBLE GENOMICS (at least 1 SARS-CoV-2 genome uploaded to GISAID within the year)
- target, finance, project-management, Roam
- goal-title: Earn at least $1K per month from online training starting Q4 2020 (Using Roam for Project Management bit.ly/roamfu-pm)
- target, lifestyle, moving, south-america, learning, language, spanish
- goal-title: Live in South America for 3-6 months in 2021 and learn Spanish
- 4th Example
- goals-preamble: By December 31st, 2020 I will…
- goals-category: personal
- target, music
- Put single on Spotify! 🎸🎙👨🎤
- target, career
- Be certified as a fire truck driver 🚒
- target, finance
- Create financial plan to buy a house! 🏠💰
- target, lifestyle, hiking
- Hike the Shenandoah AT! ⛰
- target, coaching
- Attend a coaching program! 👨🎓⚡️
- target, lifestyle, fun, adventure
- Go skydiving! 🛩☁️
- target, lifestyle, dating, adventure, numerical
- Go on 10 dates! (4/10) ❤️
- target, community, event
- Have a home warming pool party 🎈
- target, travel, family
- Go on a family trip! ✈️
- target, event
- Attend another Tony Robbins event! 🔥
- goals-category: professional/work
- target, learning, numerical
- Have 100 unique listens to the podcast! 🎙
- target, learning, numerical
- Take 10 hours of classes in ML or Cyber (1/10) 👨🎓
- target, finance
- Ask for a raise (above the normal increase) 💰
- target, writing
- Submit proposal to Innovation Council 📝
- target, travel, fun
- Take a workcation somewhere fun ✈️
- target, coding
- Refactor deployment code 🤖
- target, writing, blogging
- Write a blog post! 🖥
1 linked reference
January 2nd, 2021
- Example Goals for GCIs etc