Personal Productivity with AI PART 2
In the last Part we started off by working out what is actually important to us.
Today we start to convert what we value into specific goals.
Remember our basic flow?:
Value → Goals → Projects → Tasks
Today we’re covering Goals.
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Productive Goal Setting
Let’s get cracking with a prompt that we’ll use below our previous work:
Act as a goal setting coach
Review my list of values and for each ask me for 3 goals that I want to achieve in the following year.
Ask about one value area at a time, collect the 3 goals, make suggestions according to SMART framework, confirm my goals then move to next value area.
Then generate a table with all the areas, goals and SMART details in columns.
This prompt will walk you through a coaching process where you need to think about your own goals.
ChatGPT will elicit answers and then make suggestions to make the goal SMART (ie. Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant and Time-bound):
It’ll work through each of your value areas going from most to least important.
It will then generate a table of all the goals:
It’s best to copy/paste this out to Google Sheets or a similar spreadsheet tool as it’s hard to see it all in ChatGPT!
Once you have all the areas of your life and the annual goals set against them we want to manually edit.
Anything look out of place in that table? Edit it or straight up delete it. No problem. These are your goals, not ChatGPTs!
It’s easier to do this once you have it all in a table in front of you.
Keep a hold of this big ol’ table as we’re going to be using it tomorrow as the basis of an annual, quarterly and weekly project plans.
The basic prompt above will treat all areas of life as equal.
But yesterday we weighted our values.
We can also weight our goals.
For instance if health is more important than money for you this coming year we need that to be reflected in your goal planning.
We don’t want to dedicate the same amount of time and energy to both.
Here’s an updated prompt:
Act as a goal setting coach
Review my list of values and for each ask me for goals that I want to achieve in the following year.
My values are weighted, not all are equally important.
Assign a number of goals to each value area according to its importance.
Ask about one value area at a time, make suggestions according to SMART framework, confirm my goals and THEN move to next value area.
Then generate a table with all the areas, goals and SMART details in columns. Make sure that the goals are distributed in a way that matches my value distribution.As a reminder in yesterday’s example we had:
Entrepreneurial Freedom: 20%
Innovation and Creativity: 15%
Knowledge Sharing and Teaching: 12%
Health and Well-being: 10%
Impactful Work: 10%
Continuous Learning: 9%
Work Efficiency: 8%
Personal Growth: 7%
Balanced Lifestyle: 5%
Community and Network Building: 4%
As the distribution of values.
The prompt with this list will return the following:
Notice we are asked for 4 goals, not 3. Our weightings have adjusted the balance of goals set for each area, allowing us to adjust focus.
The lowest priority will have one goal only for the year. The focus is reduced.
Continue the process as above and ChatGPT will generate a full table.
We’ll use this table in the next Part tomorrow.
Pulling it together
Tomorrow we’re going to convert your large annual goals into specific quarterly and weekly projects. We’ll get granular with your goals!
Part 1: How to be more productive
Part 2: Productive goal setting
Part 3: Breaking down the year
Part 4: Crushing the daily grind
Part 5: 1% better
Until then, keep PROMPTING!
Kyle