The Month Map has a few components to it. Deep goals, sprint goals, priorities, and the strategy and plan.
Deep goals are the things that motivate you. They're the big picture kind of things that inspire you. They don't necessarily have the steps in there. They're just the things like, I want a healthy body. I want to feel good in the mirror or something like that. Feel good with my physique. Put something there that's kind of like a thesis or a theme for your health goal.
Without your mobility, without your health, you can't do anything. So that's where you start.
For work, think of if you're an entrepreneur or if you're an employee or if you're a student, think about that work area. What's the thing or the big theme or the big goal? It could be finishing a degree. It could be getting a new position. There's a lot of steps to reach that big goal. Make it tangible. Here it's build a business that gives me financial freedom. You might want to build a business that gives you peace of mind, but you need to clarify that and put it in your own language for your work.
For relationships, set a big picture goal. If you have a partner or spouse, maybe it's something to do with your relationship with them. Maybe it's a relationship with a family member or your kids. Put something there. Be strong and positive for my spouse and then connect with kids when we have the time together. Be intentional and make the most of it. The point here is that you're putting your language in a small sentence and you're defining this deep goal in these five areas.
For community, you are able to define these goals and these goal channels any way you want. For me, community is writing online, writing on my blog, writing on LinkedIn, connecting with like-minded people. You define all of these goal buckets the way that you see fit. If it feels like you want to go to church and donate your time, that's fine. But there's other ways to fill community. It could be joining a board as an advisory to help people start businesses. You define what that means.
For spirit, you define what that is. It could be meditation, it could be yoga, it could be going to church, it could be praying, it could be going for a walk, it could be taking a hike in nature. But have some kind of definition on what your spiritual goal is for the month. That sets the tone, that gives you something to work towards.
Once you have those long-term vision, those goals, then you translate your deep goal into concrete steps. Think through what are the top three actions, the sprint goals, that have a clear A and B that you have to do, that are the most important for the month, that are the critical essential things.
It could be a few of those actionable goals from one or two of the deep goals. It really is up to you, but you want to define something that can have a result, that can have a yes or no that you've either accomplished it or you haven't. Set three goals at the beginning of the month. One here is an exercise goal to lift weights twice per week. I've got one to get 100 users on Spry and start collaborating with them. I'm in an MBA program, so it's to study for one hour a day. These are concrete, results based. We want to turn this into data and we can use it to analyze later.
The priorities, this is a prediction. A really important point. When you're starting at the beginning of a month, you're making a prediction on what goals are important and why they're important. But as I've experienced many times, my goals change when I take more action. This is a way to hold yourself accountable to what you think is important and then evaluate and be agile and make changes later.
The plan is how you're going to achieve all that. It's how you're going to fulfill it and what are your given tools and strategy to execute and make it happen. When you have all these things, you can finalize it and this is your month map. You've got all of this that you've created. It's a document that you use to refer to.
You're going to use this on the beginning of the month when you create it, but you're going to refer back to it daily. I have it on my dashboard and it says this month's goals. That's why a lot of the time you forget or you lose sight of it, because you get busy with the execution and busy with the work that you're doing, that you're not referring back to the things that you've declared are important.
But when you break them down in these goal channels, these five areas, health, work, relationships, community, and spiritual, you define them, you've got the deep goals, and you've got the short goals, then you have the ability to hold yourself accountable to it and you can always refer back to make sure that you're on track.
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Once your month is planned, learn how I plan my day using the Day Map.
You break down your goals into five areas: health, work, relationships, community, and spirit. For each area, you set a deep goal, which is the big picture thing that motivates you. Then you translate those deep goals into concrete steps. You think through what are the top three actions, the sprint goals, that have a clear A and B that you have to do, that are the most important for the month. You set three goals at the beginning of the month and refer back to them daily.
Set three goals at the beginning of the month. You want to define something that can have a result, that can have a yes or no that you've either accomplished it or you haven't. It could be a few of those actionable goals from one or two of the deep goals. So it really is up to you.
When you have all these things, your deep goals, sprint goals, priorities, and your plan, you can finalize it and this is your month map. You've got all of this that you've created. It's a document that you use to refer to. You're going to use it on the beginning of the month when you create it, but you're going to refer back to it daily.
Deep goals are the things that motivate you. They're the big picture kind of things that inspire you. They don't necessarily have the steps in there. Sprint goals are the top three actions that have a clear A and B that you have to do, that are the most important for the month, that are the critical essential things. You want to define something that can have a result, that can have a yes or no.
You're going to refer back to it daily. I have it on my dashboard and it says this month's goals. A lot of the time you forget or you lose sight of it because you get busy with the execution and busy with the work that you're doing, that you're not referring back to the things that you've declared are important. But when you break them down in these goal channels, these five areas, you define them, you've got the deep goals, and you've got the short goals, then you have the ability to hold yourself accountable to it.
The priorities are a prediction. When you're starting at the beginning of a month, you're making a prediction on what goals are important and why they're important. But as I've experienced many times, my goals change when I take more action. So this is a way to hold yourself accountable to what you think is important and then evaluate and be agile and make changes later.
Try it for yourself on sprygoals.com.
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