macro and micro goals

you want to be a millionaire. you want to write a book. you want to run a marathon. cool. what are you doing about it today? this afternoon? in the next hour?

if you can't answer that, you don't have a goal. you have a fantasy.

the gap between dreaming and doing

big goals are seductive. they make you feel ambitious just for having them. but ambition without structure is just daydreaming with extra self-congratulation.

the person who says "i want to be financially free in 10 years" and the person who says "i'm saving 20% of my paycheck this month, increasing my income by applying to three jobs this week, and reading one chapter of an investing book today" -- only one of them is actually going somewhere.

the fractal structure of real goals

every meaningful goal has a fractal structure:

• decade goal: the big vision (financial independence, career change, physical transformation)
• yearly goal: the major milestone that proves you're on track
• monthly goal: the project or habit that drives the yearly goal forward
• weekly goal: the specific actions that make the monthly goal happen
• daily goal: the single most important thing you can do today

each level feeds the one above it. miss the daily level, and the decade level stays a fantasy forever.

why most goal-setting fails

people set the macro and skip the micro. they write "lose 50 pounds" on a vision board and never decide what they're eating for lunch. they want to "start a business" but haven't spent 30 minutes researching their market this week.

the macro goal provides direction. the micro goal provides traction. you need both.

build your ladder today

take your biggest goal and work backwards. what needs to be true in one year for this to be on track? what about one month? this week? today?

write down tomorrow's single most important action. make it small enough to be undeniable. then do it before anything else.

dreams are free. execution is everything.

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