for the goal-setter chasing goals without checking if they're the right goals
Goal
Draft three radically different five-year goal trajectories in one focused day.
Source principle
Draft three radically different five-year lives to break the illusion there's only one path. : from Designing Your Life by Bill Burnett & Dave Evans.
The plan
- ☕8:00-9:00 AMSettle in. Coffee, no devices. Today is three goal trajectories.
- 📋9:00-9:30 AMCurrent-goals inventory. What you're actually chasing right now.
- 🅰️9:30-11:00 AMDraft Plan A: current goals extended forward 5 years.
- 🚶11:00-11:15 AMBreak. Walk, water, no phone.
- 🅱️11:15 AM-12:30 PMDraft Plan B: backup if Plan A vanishes tomorrow.
- 🥗12:30-1:30 PMLunch + walk. Let the drafts breathe.
- 🅲1:30-3:00 PMDraft Plan C: wildcard, if money and judgment didn't matter.
- 🏷️3:00-3:30 PMGive each plan a six-word title.
- ⭐3:30-4:15 PMScore each on resources / likeliness / coherence / confidence. 0–5 each.
- 🗣️4:15-5:00 PMTable-talk each plan for 10 min. Out loud.
- 🎯5:00-5:30 PMPick ONE goal trajectory to prototype. Not commit: prototype.
- 📅7:00-7:30 PMCalendar the prototype. Close the day.
Reward
Dinner out to toast the trajectory you'll prototype.