I’ve been thinking about how to apply this process to projects in a professional context (rather than a “self-help” context I guess) and in many cases you face costly tradeoffs regarding derisking mitigations. Also, sometimes your project may just be a big bet.
This is true (or should be) for personal improvements as well as professional—many require sacrifice (of time, often of activities with friends or other desirable experiences), and many have uncertain returns. At most companies, professional goal-seeking requires coordination with more people, and sometimes handling misalignment of beliefs by changing the framing of the steps for different audiences, so _is_ more complex than personal goals.
But you really don’t change the high-level process. You _do_ iterate faster—figure out sub-goals and measurements that will get you to step 3 every week, not every few months. (just considered now: maybe it’s a constant of 3 person-months of review). And every 3-10 iterations, start from 1 rather than 3: ensure it’s still the right goal, and tweak (or abandon) your overall plan.
When it comes to problems that are primarily related to motivation, the cost-benefit is so far weighted that the cost of implementing the plan probably doesn’t seem relevant to consider, but this is a good point.
I like the idea of using Murphyjitsu for modeling shorter iterations, that’s probably generally applicable.
This is true (or should be) for personal improvements as well as professional—many require sacrifice (of time, often of activities with friends or other desirable experiences), and many have uncertain returns. At most companies, professional goal-seeking requires coordination with more people, and sometimes handling misalignment of beliefs by changing the framing of the steps for different audiences, so _is_ more complex than personal goals.
But you really don’t change the high-level process. You _do_ iterate faster—figure out sub-goals and measurements that will get you to step 3 every week, not every few months. (just considered now: maybe it’s a constant of 3 person-months of review). And every 3-10 iterations, start from 1 rather than 3: ensure it’s still the right goal, and tweak (or abandon) your overall plan.
When it comes to problems that are primarily related to motivation, the cost-benefit is so far weighted that the cost of implementing the plan probably doesn’t seem relevant to consider, but this is a good point.
I like the idea of using Murphyjitsu for modeling shorter iterations, that’s probably generally applicable.