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🧭Purpose Reverse-Engineer

The One ThingLife Designers Β· Goal Setting Β· Single SessionMedium

for the one with a "someday" life goal but no line from here to there

Goal

Write your someday life goal and trace one unbroken line back to today's single action.

Source principle

Purpose, reverse-engineered: start from your someday life goal and trace one unbroken line back to today's action. : from The One Thing by Gary Keller.

The plan

  1. πŸͺ‘
    0:00-0:05
    Settle. One blank page, pen. Today you draw one line.
  2. πŸ”οΈ
    0:05-0:15
    Write your someday life goal in one sentence. Plain words.
  3. πŸ› οΈ
    0:15-0:25
    Define what mastery it requires. Name the craft.
  4. πŸ“…
    0:25-0:35
    Set the 5-year marker. Where you must be by then.
  5. πŸ—“οΈ
    0:35-0:45
    Set the 1-year marker. The domino for this year.
  6. πŸ“‹
    0:45-0:55
    Set this month's marker. One domino, one month.
  7. ▢️
    0:55-1:00
    Write today's one action that advances the chain. Just one.
  8. πŸ—’οΈ
    1:00-1:05
    Put today's action on a sticky note. Place it where you'll see it tomorrow morning.

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