B1 – Realign with your high-level goals

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What

The reality of everyday life makes it difficult for you to meet the goals you’ve set in A1, but that’s okay: You just have to frequently check to see how you’ve moved towards achieving those goals and how you can move a little faster towards them in the future.

Why

There’s a constant battle between ambitious tasks that contribute to your personal goals and those forced on you by your environment as urgent, but which may not contribute as much to your personal goals. If you don’t manage it well, you become fully focused on the infinite stream of urgent tasks without achieving any personal goal.

Finding ways to balance your tasks needs creative solutions (which is possible, but not easy). More importantly, though, it needs intentionality. That’s why you should stop once a month and work on it as part of your task management routine.

How

Create a recurring task for doing this activity. It’s common to do this activity at the end of each month because many of the things you do are aligned with calendar months. However, if you’re usually busy at the end of each month, you can schedule your review to be in the middle of the month.

List the steps you need to take for this activity, write them down in the task, and improve on it each time you run the task. That’s what you should do for almost any recurring task.

Review everything you’ve closed in the past month and write your personal evaluation in the recurring task you’ve created for this activity. In addition, review your notes from previous months and see whether there are any important trends.

If you come up with habit-making recurring tasks or one-time solutions for better alignment with your goals, create those tasks and add them to your list. Review the effectiveness of your previous realignment solutions as well.

Sometimes, you can get help from someone else for this activity: an expert in your field or a related field, a mentor, a therapist, a partner, etc. If you do so, be careful not to reveal confidential information on people or organizations you work with.

If you want to open a new major goal or close an existing major goal because it’s reasonably fulfilled or you’ve decided to stop pursuing it, run the full yearly cycle to do so.

Common pitfalls

You may be tempted to skip activities like this when you’re under pressure. It’s fine to postpone it for a few days in exceptional situations, but don’t skip it. Remember that we don’t do activities like this despite the fact that we’re busy and don’t have a lot of time: we do them because we’re busy and don’t have a lot of time!