Thinking about how you’ll feel during the process is a good indicator of whether you’ll stick it out in the long run. Traditional advice assumes work should be a slog, but there’s a huge difference between embracing the pain necessary to cultivate our vision vs simply slogging our way to another boozy weekend to collect a pay cheque. Or what you want your days to look like when you’ve achieved objective success. Most goal-setting advice goes into specify and timing – which are all key – but less goal setting advice talks about how you want to feel moving towards your goal, taking action. The point is, this vision needs to be specific to you because it should be inspiring enough to engage action. There’s no ultimate truth or one size fits all, despite what mainstream advice tells us. Building a successful freelance lifestyle can be just as inspiring as building a career in a high-flying city firm. It should excite you. And inspiration can take many forms. My biggest take-away is this zone should inspire you. I won’t cover too much here – the internet is filled with coaches and goal setting writing. In short, it’s where you decide you want to take over the world or become the next JK Rowling. It’s where we get into conversations about purpose and meaning. Mid-term or “measurable-scale” planning which breaks goals into bit-size chunks. Long term or large-scale planning, usually dealing with 3-5year goals and beyond. If we buy into this philosophy, we start to see clarity on two levels: I love the in-the-weeds systems, but my experience is the magic happens in the space where we build a link between our vision and what we’re doing on a typical Monday morning. My favourite systems have the long game in mind with an added layer of detail defining what matters when. Andy StanleyĪt the heart of it every productivity system are goals - conscious and unconscious. A few people end up somewhere on purpose. The Two Levels of Clarity – Large-Scale and Measurable-Scale PlanningĮverybody ends up somewhere in life. Often, that means we end up disillusioned and frustrated, or worse – apathy sets in – sadly before we get to the end goal.Įnergy deployed without a strategy for how it’s to be focussed, is often energy lost. There’s often an abstract goal but no definition of the path to get there. I’ve seen people get a hell of a lot done without any real clarity on the ultimate goal or the plan to get there.
It sounds obvious but it’s a step that’s often skipped. It’s only obvious to focus on the quick-win tactics.īut before getting to the place where we use these hacks effectively, I’ve found huge value in having a system for getting from A. our long term vision -> to B. And understandably so – we live in a culture of overload and speed. In productivity circles, hacks and tools get all the hype.
Without clarity or alignment, we end up wasting energy applying it to the wrong points at the wrong times, or worse, in the wrong direction altogether. Alignment is the practice of focussing our energy where it’s needed to get us to that vision. The higher the definition of that vision, the more engaging it is. In Week 2, we’ll be going over the first leg of the tripod – Clarify and Align.Ĭlarity is the vision of where we want to go. The productivity tripod captures how we make the productivity philosophy we talked about a practical tool. In Week 1 of the series, we introduced The Productivity Tripod.
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