Personal Productivity with AI PART 3
In the last Part we converted our values into annual goals.
Annual goals are a good start but most people will leave their annual goals until the end of the year and then either:
Try to sprint them out in the last few months of the year or
Forget about them
Instead we need BIG annual goals to be split up into smaller components.
Remember our basic flow?:
Value → Goals → Projects → Tasks
We’re converting each major annual goal into a project and carving each project into smaller, actionable, steps.
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Let’s get started:
Breaking down the year
Use this prompt below your others from the work so far:
Act as a goal setting coach
Analyse my annual goals
Break each goal into quarterly, monthly and weekly actions so that by the end of the year each goal is complete.
The weekly actions should match add up to equal the monthly action. The weekly actions will be a mix of continuous actions done all year and progressive actions that change over the year.
The monthly actions should add up to match the quarterly action.
Provide a 12 month plan for each annual goal.This will break your larger goal into smaller chunks - subgoals to be performed across the year.
As always give it amendments. For example in the output above it assumes I want to live abroad for 2 moths during Q3. But maybe I want to move that forward to April. I’d have to tell ChatGPT this extra context so that it can adjust accordingly.
Do this will all of your goals until you are happy with the basic shape.
Then use this follow up prompt
Give me a calendar with all goals on a weekly basis for 52 weeks
Use format
Week 1 (Month 1 1-7)
Goal 1 subgoals
Goal 2 subgoals
Goal 3 subgoals
etc.
Week 2 (Month 1 8-14)
Goal 1 subgoals
etc.
Starting January 2024This will now take all your previous work and generate an extremely detailed 52 week plan.
Each time the prompt stops use “continue, referring to above 12 month plan” to generate more weeks.
To make your goals even more actionable we need to add Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).
To paraphase Peter Drucker “what gets measured gets done”.
To assign KPIs to our goals we need 2 measures: where we are now and where we want to be.
Here’s a prompt that’ll add KPIs to our existing goals:
Act as a KPI expert
For each of the goals I want to set a KPI
Make suggestions and confirm which KPI I wish to use for each goal
Then for each goal and ask for i) my target and ii) where I am now
Then break the goal KPIs down month by month over the year and return in a tabular formatChatGPT will come up with some suggested KPIs. Use these, suggest your own or ask for more.
Then give ChatGPT your starting and goal points.
ChatGPT will then generate KPI goals for you to aim for each month:
Adjust as required and then get these badboys up on your wall! Print our your KPIs or use a whiteboard so you can keep on target and accountable to yourself.
Pulling it together
Tomorrow we’re going to put the pedal to the metal and start the daily work.
We’ll change our goals and tasks into actual “here’s what you need to do on a daily basis” tasks.
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