What
Build a goal network: a few identity-level superordinate goals, the intermediate directions that serve them, and the concrete subordinate actions underneath — then link each action to every goal above it that it feeds.
Why
Single small goals are fragile. A network gives you a reason to keep going when one motivation dips: one run can serve sleep, stress and fitness at once (multifinality), and one big goal can be served several ways (equifinality).
How
- Name 1–3 superordinate goals.
- Add intermediate goals and link them upward.
- Add subordinate actions with a when/where cue.
- Link each action to every intermediate it supports.
- Read the map and export a copy.
Multifinality
One action serving several goals above it. The more links a subordinate goal has, the more reasons you have to do it on a low-motivation day.
Make them good goals
Favour approach over avoidance ("eat more veg", not "stop snacking"), process over outcome, mastery over performance — and build in a little planned slack that costs something but isn't failure.
Your goal network
Lines run from a goal to everything that supports it.Who you are
Superordinate goals
Big-picture, identity-level. Closer to a value than a goal. No deadline, no metric.
Nothing here yet.
Which direction
Intermediate goals
Less abstract. A direction of travel that serves one or more of your superordinate goals.
Nothing here yet.
What you'll actually do
Subordinate goals
Exactly what you'll do, when, and where. Approach-framed and process-focused.
Nothing here yet.
What the map says
- 0 actions serve more than one intermediate goal.
- 0 superordinate goals are supported more than one way.
Strengthen a link
Pick your least-linked action and ask: what else, higher up, could this already be serving? Writing that link down is what makes it a motivator on a bad day.
Backup and restore
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