Coaching practices for How to List All Your Goals
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- There are so many half-formed goals and someday-projects rattling around in my head that I can’t even see them clearly
- My old list of goals is cluttered with stuff I wanted years ago and don’t anymore, and every time I glance at it I just feel a wash of guilt about all the unticked boxes
- I’m chasing a dozen goals at once and none of them are moving, because I’m spread so thin nothing builds momentum
- Everything on my plate feels equally important, so I spread myself across all of it and make no real dent in any
- My list of dreams is just one long undated jumble, and because nothing on it has a "when," it all feels equally far off and equally deferrable
Practices that may help
- Write all 25 goals without editing
Brain-dump every goal, aspiration, and project you’re holding — professional and personal — uncensored.
Warren Buffett’s Two-List Strategy - Review and revise the bucket list quarterly
A list reviewed only at writing is nostalgia; one reviewed quarterly is a live planning document.
The Bucket List Method - Limit how many you run at once
Keep to a handful of Objectives so the framework concentrates effort instead of scattering it.
OKRs for People, Not Just Companies - Define your Wildly Important Goal (WIG)
Choose the one goal where breakthrough results matter most — and focus there relentlessly.
The 4 Disciplines of Execution (4DX) - Categorize list items by time horizon
Sort items into near (this year), medium (this decade), and distant — then schedule the near-term ones immediately.
The Bucket List Method - Generate a stop-doing list, not just a to-do list for next year
What you stop doing next year is as important as what you start.
The Annual Review (Tim Ferriss Method) - Organize effort under one top-level goal
Arrange your day-to-day goals as a hierarchy serving one overarching aim.
Grit: Passion and Perseverance, Honestly Assessed - Using your ranked values as a coaching north star
Return to your ranked values list every time a goal, project, or decision feels off-track.
Values Card Sort - Specific — name the exact behavior or result
Replace “get fit” with a single, concrete target you could photograph or count.
SMART Goals That Actually Move - Wish — name a meaningful, challenging goal
Pick one wish that is hard but feasible, and that genuinely matters to you.
WOOP: Wish, Outcome, Obstacle, Plan
Related concerns
- Organize Your Goals
Arrange your day-to-day goals as a hierarchy serving one overarching aim.
Organize effort under one top-level goal
- When The Annual Review Stop Doing List
What you stop doing next year is as important as what you start.
Generate a stop-doing list, not just a to-do list for next year
- When Okrs Limit And Focus
Keep to a handful of Objectives so the framework concentrates effort instead of scattering it.
Limit how many you run at once
- When Rapid Planning Method Massive Action Plan
Brainstorm every possible action that could move you toward the result, then ruthlessly prune to the ones that actually will.
Build a Massive Action Plan (MAP)
- When Woop Method Name The Wish
Pick one wish that is hard but feasible, and that genuinely matters to you.
Wish — name a meaningful, challenging goal
- Activities Serving Multiple Goals
Activities that advance multiple goals feel more energising and are more likely to be started.
Design multifinal means — activities that serve several goals at once
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