Learn how to use your Paradigm Shift Planner
Your Aspirational Life
Your Aspirational Life
Start by asking yourself some important questions:
What does my ideal life look like in 10, 15, or even 20 years?
Where do I live? What kind of environment am I in?
What am I doing professionally and personally?
How do I feel on a daily basis? What emotions do I want to experience regularly—joy, peace, excitement, security?
Who are the people in my life? What kind of relationships do I have?
What kind of impact am I making on the world or on those around me?
As you reflect on these questions, write down your vision. Be as detailed as possible. There’s no right or wrong way to do this, and your vision can evolve over time. What’s most important is that you dream big and allow yourself to imagine what your best life looks like. This written vision will guide the goals you set in your planner, ensuring you stay aligned with what truly matters to you.
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How to plan for a 12-week initiative.
Initiative Planning
When you plan for an initiative, you're planning for the next 12 weeks. These 12 weeks don't need to align to any specific calendar dates, you can begin anytime. The purpose of planning for 12 weeks is to break down a a couple of themes that you derive from your Aspirational Life vision, and fully commit and focus on just those themes. Use the Initiative Planning page to create an outline of how you'll make progress towards those themes. This is a 12-week period, so be realistic and honest with yourself about how much you can accomplish during that time. These are BIG life goals you're going after. It's normal for many of these goals to span multiple Initiatives.
How to plan for a 2-week Sprint
Sprint Goals (2 weeks)
Your sprint goals are derived directly from your Initiative Planning. Here, you want to figure out how much of your initiative you can accomplish in the next two weeks. You can break this down in multiple ways:
- For every sprint, work on the same sprint goals that come from your intiative.
- Focus on a different sprint goal every two weeks that come from your initiative.
- Use the first sprint to experiment and try a bunch of things before determining what you'll stick with in future sprints.
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Daily Habits & Tasks
The purpose of this section is to select daily habits that align to your sprint goals, which align to your Initiative, which aligns to your Aspirational Life vision.
Select daily habits that will move the needle and make a difference in your life. Choose things that are a bit challenging, but not impossible at this stage of your planning. For week 1, you might be tracking 3k steps per day. But in week 12 that could be 10k steps per day. Each Sprint and each week should be a progression from the previous.
Score yourself each week! On the "goal" line, select how many days you want to accomplish that task. On the "score" like, calculate how many days you completed the task and divide it by the number you set as your goal.
Retrospectives
There are 3 types of retrospectives in this planner.
- Quick Retro: this is a space to reflect on your effort and progress each week.
- Sprint Retro: this is a more in-depth retro to reflect on your effort and progress over 2 weeks.
- Initiative Retro: this is the most in-depth retro to reflect on what you've accomplished over the last 12 weeks.