Goal Systems
EXPLORING THE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN DIFFERENT TYPES OF GOALS
This goal systems model is designed to help you create, organize, and prioritize your attention within your creative projects. It is not a to-do list in which you simply list all your tasks (although those are incredibly useful.) It is also not merely a list of ideas or interesting things (although those are amazing to have as well). This is a map of the things you are actively working on in your everyday life. A web of your most personally meaningful motivations both on the big picture level toward the type of life you want to live, and the grounded realistic level of what you want to have in your direct experience each day.
Understanding the different types of goals and their relationships to one another can help make sure your experiences are motivating, connected to tangible achievements, and in line with your most meaningful pursuits. Most importantly, the content of each of these levels are chosen by you. Making these choices is the process by which you design your own life and create experiences align with your authentic self.
Each goal can have multiple branches below it, for example, an intention may have multiple outcome goals, and an outcome goal may have multiple process goals to focus on. examining these branches and keeping an eye on all of them will allow you to prioritize which ones will receive your attention. Moving up the goal system helps to answer the question “Why?” and moving down the goal system helps to answer the question “How?”.
As you achieve new outcomes and build skill within different processes throughout your life, this entire system will have to change in order for it to stay motivating and meaningful. Periodically reflecting on your work and your accomplishments with attention paid specifically toward what you want to continue experiencing, and what you would like to change is a powerful way to continually develop into the person you’d like to become while simultaneously enjoying your way there.
Skipping sections of the system will result in less feedback for how much development you’re making toward the higher levels of the system. For example if you can articulate a life purpose, but you don’t articulate any intentions, it will be difficult to know whether to outcome goals and tangible products you’re making are truly connecting with your life purpose. If you have clear intentions but neglect to set any tangible and specific outcome goals, it will be difficult to demonstrate that the things you are focussing on in your experience aka your process goals, are truly moving you closer to your intentions or not. Feedback is necessary in order to get a clear picture of the direction your life is moving, and ultimately it will help your entire lifestyle flow together such that your everyday actions are engaging, motivating, and meaningful.
You can accomplish everything within this concept map on your own, but the support of a qualified and enthusiastic coach can ensure that you accomplish them with the right amount of support at a pace that works for you.
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