Goal Setting for Success -How to Set, Track, and Achieve Any Goal with OKRs

1. Overview: Hey, it's Leo here. You're most likely watching this video because you want to achieve your goals, but you feel a bit lost on how or where to start. Do you also struggle with staying motivated or tracking your progress? Look no further. Because our online course goal setting for success, how to set, track and achieve any goals with OKRs is here to help. I remember more than 20 years ago, when I tried to make progress in university, kick starting my first company and trying to grow into the role of being a father. I just felt very lost and overwhelm, but also for the first time, I understood that I have to value my own time. I tried all kinds of different methods and tools to optimize my time and energy. After more than two decades tweaking my personnel and business processes, I finally found something that is bringing me consistent results. And this is what makes this course unique. I will help you to understand and set up your own personal productivity system that helps you to track and make progress towards your goers on a daily basis. I will also help you to avoid making the same mistakes I made and get results faster and consistently. Now it's up to you to fast forward your journey and get the tools and systems that took me two decades to figure out. Not only will you get lifetime access to our course, goal setting for success, But you will also get access to our community with like minded people. You can exchange ideas and help each other out and also keep each other accountable. On top of that, we also will get templates that make it possible that you can start immediately. Once you understand how to work towards a goal on a daily basis, the skills that you will get here in this course will positively impact your private and professional life for sure. If you take this seriously and if you want to continue progressing the words your goers, vision, and dreams. This course is a great starting point, and I'm confident it really can positively impact your whole life. I'm looking forward to see you in goal setting for success and being part of your personal success story. Check out the rest of the page if you want to learn even more, and if you are ready by the course, and we will meet on the inside. 2. Welcome: Hello and a very warm welcome to how to set, track, and achieve goals. We will use OCR's objectives and key results plus habits and other systems to get you there to achieve your goals. My name is Leo Prova and I will guide you through the next video lessons. It doesn't matter if you're here because you want to improve your business or your personal life, your relationship life. The methods and systems can work for anything you want it to work to. If you want to grow your business, if you want to transform your business from a stationary business to a remote business, or if you want to start an independent location, independent financially independent lifestyle, or you want to improve your relationships, you want to lose weight or just get fitter, learn new languages. It doesn't matter, this system will work for you if you set it up. Right. I will give you a rough overview, but also first guide how to set it up and how you can get started if you try to change your life, but keep doing the same things over and over again, you will not get different results. You will need to make some really fundamental changes, Develop good habits that support your goers, set up systems and follow them. You also need to stick to the plan, so to say. You will adjust it through the way, but you need to have some perseverance to reach the results that you want to. I have bad news for you, but also good news. The bad news first, there is no overnight success or these fake gurus who try to sell you their overpriced programs might tell you you can achieve anything you want without putting any effort in overnight. That's not true. You need consistent progress and I will give you the doors do set track and achieve all the goals that you're setting for yourself. Anything is possible, but you should know that it's also an effort. Nothing is coming for free. There is no overnight success. But you can change your life. You can be whoever you want to be and become the person that you were always dreaming of. Now a little summary of what we are going to talk about in the next couple of videos. First of all, I will talk about success factors, like what is important in general to reach and achieve your goals. Then we will talk about where you are standing at the moment. You really need to be honest with yourself. I work with many clients, and friends, and family as well. This is a crucial part. If you're not honest with yourself, where you're standing at the moment, and also why you're standing there, then the results will not be as good as they can be. Then we will also talk about your vision, why you want to do something. This is more long term perspective, like where do you want to be in life? Which person do you want to become? From there, we will work with objectives and key results. I will roughly explain what objectives are, also how to set them. I will then go to key Results, talk about key results, why they important, and what we are using them for, and also how you can set them. Then when we have set our key results, we will break them down to actionable items and tasks that you can do on a daily basis or weekly basis. Yeah. To work towards your objectives and key results. We also will talk about habits, the important and how they can support the overall success. Habits are really crucial. It's hard to get rid of bad habits, it's hard to adapt good habits. But yeah, this is really very important, besides systems and other objectives and key results to be successful on the long run. In one lesson, we will talk about how to take action. That's also really hard. You shouldn't get stuck in the planning too much. You also need to take action because only if you take action, you will make progress. You will move forward, you will come closer to your goals. It's not about doing everything it wants, it's really a Maradon sprint. You really need to also set up systems that, yeah, help you support you with taking actions and moving forward towards your goals. After that, we will come to also important part that is often forgotten or people do not think about it or do not put enough attention to it. It's about reviewing and checking how the progress is, updating the progress. Usually even if you make plans or you work a lot on, on your goals but you never see how you are actually progressing. Yeah. It's also not as effective as it could be. We will have a look at that as well. Last but not least, we will summarize everything. See how everything is working together. How is everything playing together? Yeah, give you the fine tuning that you are ready to get started with reaching your goals. 3. Important Success Factors in our journey: Welcome to this next video. Today we're going to talk about general success factors and what you need to get. Right. To set up a system that works for you in general. There are many different paths. Of course, to reach your goals, to be successful you will need to find your personal one that works for you. Yeah, it's also clear that if you have a strong why you're doing things, which is usually more on the long term, it's way easier to achieve your goals, especially if you can adjust your what you're doing and how you're doing aligned with your Y. I can really recommend two books of Simon Sinek, If you want to read more about that, find your Y and start with your y. But let's jump into today's lesson and talk about different success factors. The first one is setting and tracking mid term goals. When I talk about mid term goals, I'm talking of a time horizon of three to 12 months. Those are very important to keep you focused on the immediate, most important things. We use objectives and key results for that, they should really help you. Do not get distracted. We live in a world of information. There are many shiny objects everywhere that are promising you better results and stuff like this. And yeah, objective, key results help you stay on track and keep you persistent. It doesn't matter if you're a solopreneur, or a small business owner, or working in management, or just a private person. Objectives and key results will help you stay on track. That's why mid term goals are so important. One other important point is that you should start loving the process. That's easier said, I'm aware of that. But even if it's not happening now that you love your journey, if you want to change your life, you want to become a different person. You want to build the business or whatever you need to take actions. Don't wait for pension to have fun to travel or for the lottery win to have enough money to fulfill your dreams. Surround yourself with people you like you enjoy hanging out with. Do more things that are enjoyable for you and results will follow as well. According to the long term vision that you should have, there is only one point in time where you can live and it's now. You cannot live in the future. You cannot live in the past. You only can live in the now. Build supportive habits. That's very important on the long run to be successful. After you figured out your why, or at least your mid term goals, your one year objectives, you can think about how can I support or which habit could support this goal. How can this help me to reach this goal? The more you automate in your life through habits or mini habits, the easier and the more likely you will succeed. You cannot always rely on your willpower. Willpower is limited. Not every day is the same for sure. Sometimes wake up in the morning and you don't know why have a bad mood or low energy. Then the habits really come in handy and we'll do the job for you to keep going, make still a little progress, even if you have a bad day and not make you stop on the way to reach your goers. Another often overseen technique to reach your goers and making the difference between failing them or succeeding is to having an accountability system or accountability partner. You could, for example, have a call Wiki with a friend or with a mentor that helps you to stay on track and keep you accountable towards your goals. This can be really powerful because sometimes tend to trick ourselves in our mind and say, oh, okay, I do this next week. But if, you know, on Sunday at 05:00 P.M. I have to call with my mentor with my beer, or with some friends. It's different. It will maybe help you to put more effort in. Yeah, having an accountability partner can definitely make a difference as well. If you're working with a system like OKRs, you need to trust it, otherwise it will also not work. You need to trust that the progress is updated correctly and that the system works. I can give you my doors that I'm using. I'm using notion for example, but it doesn't matter if you keep track of it on a napkin or on axle or Google sheets. Yeah, it's just the only thing that is important that you trust in the system that you are using. In this course, we focus on the mid term goals, like three months to one year. But this objectives and key results do not work. If you have no daily or weekly plan under the objectives and key results, you need to break down your projects, your work ahead. Also, in smaller tasks, there are different methods to do that depending what you're working on. Some are suited better than others. But yeah, you need to exactly know what you want to do every single day. Best is to write it down in the morning. What is the one thing that I want to achieve? Yeah, then also review that in the end of the day. Last but not least, there is one principle that you need to follow. Do not give up ever. There will be failures, there will be setbacks. Things will not work as long your why and your vision is clear and you know why you're doing something, why you're following your dreams, why you want to become this different person. Why you want to have a free independent lifestyle and take control back of your own life then? It doesn't matter when you fall. Maybe you lay there for 1 minute, for a day, for three days, but you will stand up and you will succeed in the end, step by step. Every day we make a little step forward to the life that we want to live. 4. Know yourself and your Current Situation: Welcome back. In this video lesson, we will talk about your current situation. This is the last step before we are going to set objectives and key results. Your three month to one year goes. Yeah. Before we do that, we need to check and analyze how your current situation is to set realistic objectives. Yeah, we will dive into different aspects that we are looking at right now. One important question is, how much time or money do you have available? If you have five kids working two jobs full time, you will not have much time to sacrifice to work on your goals. You need to consider that, of course, you still can achieve something. But you need to adjust your objectives and key results to your available time. If you want to, for example, build an online shop while working full time and taking care of your kids, then yeah, you need to be extra focused and productive in the little time that you have available. Or you can use money as a leverage and outsource stuff, which is also time consuming of course. But yeah, you can still use that. There is always some time where we can squeeze in some extra hours. But you exactly should know what you want to work on, what's the most important thing to make progress. And of course, you always also need to take care that you are not burning out. Because when you burn out, you also will not achieve your goals and objectives. How much money can you invest in your business? That's also important. It can be a leverage. You can add, you know what you want to do. You can add freelancers that are supporting you on the way. Some businesses need some initial investment. If you don't have that money, yeah, then it will be also hard and maybe you can choose something else that you want to work on, but also with your budget and the money you have available. Same like with the time you need to be realistic. That's why this is important. Also, do analyze your current situation money wise. Do you have relevant experience in the area you want to work on? Where your goals are. It's a difference if you're a programmer or you have a lot of experience with e commerce and you want to build an online shop. Or if you're just starting out and need to learn all the skills on yourself, of course. Then your objectives in which time frame you can reach your goal is different. If you need to learn new skills first, in order to reach your goal, you need to plan in more time. If you're not realistic about that, it can be really frustrating if you don't make the progress that you want to make, the previous attempts. Did you try to achieve this goal before? If yes, why it didn't work out, You should just be honest with yourself and analyze what went wrong last time. Maybe sometimes it's just bad timing or whatever it is. Be honest to yourself, analyze the situation. Do not make the same mistake again. Yeah, be more successful this time. The last thing is that you also should think of potential other obligations. This is not about imagining problems that could occur in the future to demotivate you and to stop you even before you started. This is really about having a realistic perspective on what could go wrong right now, What is realistic to happen, how can I respond to this distraction? We are here to develop a long term vision, our why, and also strong systems and habits to a work on a daily basis, step by step, to become the person we want to be, to have the life that we want to have or have the success in, whatever that means for you that you want to have, be realistic about what is keeping you away from being successful. And yeah, we can deal with the obstacles and then also make progress on a daily basis. That's it. You're ready to set objectives and key results. I hope you were honest with yourself with the analysis of your current situation. Yeah, let's set some awesome objectives. 5. How to identify your Objectives?: Hello and welcome to this video. We're going to talk about objectives today. We built the foundation in the last video with talking about our current situation. And now we are ready to define objectives for the next three months. Objectives should give you the direction you are going to. You should answer yourself the question, what do you want to achieve? And then define motivational objectives. Joe Vital said, a goal should scare you a little and excite you a lot. That describes it really well when we talk about objectives, we always define them in that way, that if you put a lot of effort in, it will be still hard to reach them. They shouldn't be demotivate you, but you really should feel that it's not easy to reach. You shouldn't send back your objectives, which means that you are, yeah, making them so small that you can easy reach them whenever you are done after the three month and you reached around 70% on average of your objectives. That's already good. Set them high, but not that high that they're demotivating you and you are fine. An objective is a short, inspirational, and achievable statement that describes what you want to achieve. Depending on how much time you can invest, you will choose a different amount of objectives. Usually when you work full time on your objectives, you set them around the clock. On your objectives, you can set around three to five for three months. Those objectives will also have key results, we will talk about that later, which make the objectives trackable. The objectives themselves don't include numbers. Usually they just give a direction what you want to work on just to define what will be your focus in the next three months. As I said before, usually objectives contain numbers. We will have the key results for that. Yeah, some words that you could use for objectives are develop, launch, build, improve in your objective name. Here are some examples for objectives in the business and the private life. The business first become accounting, creating, machine, launch my new online shop. Increase profits. Optimize our customer acquisition. Build a targeted organic and recurring drafting source for my website. Now some objectives for the personal life. Develop habits for a better and healthier life. Improve my fitness. Spend more quality time with my family. Create my first yoga class. That's it. By now, you already analyzed your current situation. You know what is important in your life to set up everything to be able to achieve your goals that you're setting for yourself. Plus you know how to basically set objectives. The next step will be to define the key results for that. If you're stuck in the process, you can get further information on the website or also book us as an accountability partner or mentor coach. Yeah, we will help you in the process. 6. How to find your Key Results?: Welcome back to the video how to find my key results for the objectives that we defined before. Yeah, this is all about measuring progress. As Peter Trucker already said, if you can't measure it, you cannot improve it. Yeah, that's why we're going to talk about key results today, depending on how much time you have available. We defined one to five objectives in the last lesson. For each of the objectives to make it trackable, we will define three to five key results. Key results are there to track the progress that you're making towards your goals, towards your objectives. Be realistic in the beginning. Especially pick rather less than more key results. I would suggest to start with three key results per objective, especially in the beginning. And yeah, try to achieve around 70% in one iteration, in three months of your key Rezar progress. Key results are specific and time pound ambitious, but realistic and measurable actions that will collectively allow you to achieve your objective. Key results focus on tracking the progress towards objectives. Usually you use numbers to quantify the key results. Usually key results answer the question, how to achieve my objective. You usually update your key results weekly. It's very important that they are measurable, quantifiable. You could, for example, say, walk 10,000 steps every day, or make it a percentage. But then be sure that it's very clear which tasks need to be completed to make it happen, you could use pounds or pieces or articles. Yeah, just make it very clear that you can update your key results on a regular basis. Suggested is a Wiki basis, at least in the end of the iteration, usually three month. If you have on average 70% of your key results reached, you can say you were successful. Because as we said before, we are setting our goals a bit higher and try to stretch our efforts a little bit. If you always reach 100% of your Kosar, you should improve them because that's not how it's supposed to be. You should set higher goals and yeah, just make them a bit more harder to reach. Now some examples of Kiss in business and private area. We can two objectives that we were defining yesterday. The first objective was become a counting crating machine. Key result would be create and post 60. Tiktok 60 is a clear number, you can easy track it and measure it. Second key result could be the objective, become a counting grating machine, Produce and publish 12 high quality videos on Youtube. The third key result, do the objective become a counting grating machine. Could be complete the course, final cut from beginner to advanced. All of this is measurable, Yeah, very trackable and are good key results. We pick another objective from the private area that we defined in the last lesson. We'll also try to come up with three key results for that. One, we pick the objective, develop habits for a better and healthier life. One key result could be, walk daily more than 1,000 steps. Again, easy to drag. You can easy update it and see the progress towards your objective. Second one could be the objective, develop habits for better and healthier life. Could be, meditate 60 times. Again, very trackable, nice ist and definitely aligned with the goal to live a healthier life. Kist. Number three could be, track your calorie intake 60 times. Also related to objective, develop habits for a better and healthier life. If you track your calories, you're more aware of what you eat. Yeah, definitely also a good Kyis art. Those were two examples from the last lesson. Now you're almost ready. Yeah. In the next lesson we're going to break down the result into actions and initiatives. If you need further help for creating your own objectives and results, you find a lot of resources on our website, but you also can a care with us and consult us as mentor or accountability partner. Just check out our website and we will help you on the way. You're almost done. You know how to define objectives and also key results and why they are important. The next step we're going to break the resorts down to make it more actionable so that you know on a daily basis what you want to do. Yeah, if you need further resources, you can find a lot of free content on our website. If you want to speak to a mentor or consultant or accountability partner, you can book a call on our website and we're going to help you with Yeah. Making progress in your goal setting and reaching efforts. 7. How to break down your Key Results?: Welcome back to this video. I'm happy you're here. Last session we defined our key results. Today, we're going to break them down. And it's all about how to achieve your key results. Because a goal without a plan is just a wish. As Antoine de San Expre already said, a goal and the key result can be too big, which means it's too overwhelming. If you have a big chunk of work ahead and you don't really know where to start and how to achieve it, that's a sign that you need to break it down. And yeah, more detailed, you write down the first steps, how to get started, how to get in motion, which is a really important thing. The easier it will be to work towards the goal. This is what we are talking about today. We call the smaller chunks of work that we find from our key results initiatives. Initiatives, again, have more or a couple of action items that we can break them down to. They will just help you to find the direction or figure out what you want to try first to achieve your key results. The initiative is a strategy, an idea of how to fulfill the key result. Each initiative consists of multiple action items. If you're just starting out with your core setting, then you should really follow the process. If you're in it for 2030 years, you already know how to set your Cos, you're used to work towards core setting. Of course, you can loosen up the system a little bit and adjust it more to your needs because you already know what you need to achieve. Maybe you just need a little bit more structure. But yeah, when you start out, I would suggest to integrate initiatives in your daily and weekly planning as well. It will help you to make progress. But let's make some examples to make it more clear how initiatives and action items could look like. We already defined the objectives in Sykes. Now let's define some initiatives and action items to it. Be sure that for the week ahead that you always have defined at least one action item for an initiative. Because otherwise, yeah, you will just struggle to get started. It's like the problem with the white sheet in front of you. If you want to start writing, it's always easier if you just really know what will be the next step. And yeah, it will help you to get started. But now I said, let's go and check some examples. We had the objective become a content creating machine. The key result we defined was create and post 60 dicto in the span of the next three months. Easy, measurable. As we said before, initiative could be grade a content plan. Grade A content plan is still a consisting of more than one action item because you have to do different things. Yeah. To make a content plan. And that's why we break it down to action items, which could be for grading a plan. Writing down what I want to talk about like some brainstorming session. For example, check my favorite Tiktokers and write down what I like most with them, for example. And the third action item to the initiative, create the content plan, could be research the best keywords for my niche. And that's it. This was the first example for how to create initiatives and action items To it, you already know now how to define objectives and key results plus how to break it down into actionable items, tasks that you can integrate in your day. Thank you for listening and yeah, see you soon. 8. Tutorial: How to Set and Track your OKRs in Notion? (Free Template): Hello and welcome to this tutorial where I'm going to show you how to set track and achieve any goal with cars. I prepared a notion template and an example for you. Yeah. To make the next steps towards the goals. Yeah, I would say we directly jump into it. I also prepared a little persona, I will directly come back to it soon again. But yeah, in this template that I graded, you see the different steps that we are doing. First, we will define the period for the next OKRs. If I said it for the year, yeah, this would be a year. Then I would also define them for the next three month. A typical period is three month, around 12 weeks after we have defined our next next period, we will go to define our objectives. Usually those will be three to five depending on how much time you have available. When we're done with the objectives, we will define the key results and also initiatives. Yeah. Then you are ready to start your quarter, do your weekly updates. I will also show you how you can do this in our template here. Yeah, I would say let's jump into it. I prepared persona to make the example a bit more realistic. Let's say I just quit my job and I want to become a digital not, I want to start my own freelancing business to begin with. Photo video editing and social media management to finance the life and yeah the world. I also want to learn new skills and develop healthy habits just to become fitter while traveling. I also want to make friends and socialize with interesting people in the countries that I'm visiting. These are basically, is the direction where I want to develop in the next year. To keep a little bit shorter, I will not go into the yearly objectives. The principle is the same just for a longer timespan, but we will try to find objectives for the next three months. In that example, we will go with three objectives. For each of the three objectives, we will define three key results to track the progress towards the objective. And then also find some initiatives to make it easier. Which are basically ideas to how to get started with reaching your codes that you defined in the key result. Let's get started. But first things first, you need to go to the template page. Then you can fabricate the template to your own workspace. In Notion, this can take a couple of seconds, then you see it already here. This is your workspace. Yeah, we can follow the step by step guide and start with specifying the quarters here. We will delete the old one. We can just mark it and delete it and then add the quarter. Since 202033 is incoming, we are defining at the following, let's say we want to start our quarter next Monday. Yeah, we will have 12 release weeks. Yeah, since we are going for three months, it will be around 12 weeks that we're working on our objectives. The next step would be to define our objectives. We said we will keep the yearly objectives for now. What we are going to do is add our free, predefined objectives from before. As we said, we want to start or kick start our freelancing career in Photoshop and video editing and social media to earn enough money to be able to travel the world. I copied this from here and add a quarterly objective. We see it appearing here in the name. You can describe it further here if you like, but for now, yeah, this is fine. I select myself for the responsible person, being the responsible person here. Go to the next objective, we add another one since we also want to stay fit or even become fit and develop some healthy habits. As another objective here, yeah, the third objective is start expanding knowledge and skills. Since we want to grow and learn new things, we also have this on our to do list. As you already learned in the course. You can find the link to the course in the description. Objectives are there to give you direction basically? Yeah, what you want to work on in the next time. Yeah, we define our three first objectives for the next three months. I think they are good. Now, the next step, as written here in the guide, would be define the key results for the objectives. For each objective, we are defining three to five key results just to make the progress attractable. Yeah, this will help us if we are on track, the words, our objectives, or if we need to adjust, maybe here and there to reach our goals. We also have one objective here, result already here. I will delete it and start adding a new one. As we did it before, I start copying the key results in key results usually contain a number. Yeah, because you need to quantify somehow to track it in our T reviews. Later we will update the key results on a weekly basis. We also will see the progress towards our objective. Then in that case, for our first objective, kick start freelancing career in photo video editing and social media management. We have the goal to secure at least three new clients. This will be our first objective, key results, We will connect it to our freelancing career. You need to do this here, then it will show up later related to your objective. Here we set our starting point. We start with zero clients. Our goal is free clients. Yeah, the first one is here. I also will already copy the initiatives there that we don't have to touch each of the results again for securing at least three consistent clients. The first, the first initiative could be develop a portfolio, show photo, video editing, and social media skills. Reach out to potential clients through freelancing platform, social media, and professional network. And the third initiative could be offer a discount or bonus service for the first few clients. For feedback and reviews, this is basically nothing that we will track on. Those are just ideas how to reach our key result. The second one, the second key rest, I will go a bit faster now, is generate a steady monthly, at least $1,500 income that covers basic expenses. I will just add it here, set to go 1,000 or basically since it's three months, 4,500 in the beginning. It can take longer for sure. But yeah, it's also not the goal to always reach 100% like the target goal is around 60, 70% of your objectives. You can really set them higher and really challenge in the process starting zero, I think we set everything we also need to set the quarter. I will do this here as well just to be sure we have minus now. It's because it's just starting next week. I will change that, that the release start is already, it was already last week, but yeah, as you said, you can leave that as well, like this here. You can set the unit, it's money. You can also add different things here. We will also define three initiatives. Determine a pricing strategy that balances market rates, personal skills, and living costs. Actively market services online with local communities, and maintain high quality work and communication. Let's copy this as well and put it in here to speed this process a little bit up. You can also just duplicate your last key result and then just exchange the name. Our last key result for the objective is receive positive feedback from the Giants. Coal is free. Yeah, our initiatives are also clear, regularly request guides, feedback to improve services, ensure prompt delivery and high quality work, and maintain professional and open communication with the clients. I think those are also great initiatives and three pieces of review is the thing here, let's check up. We already also see here for the first objective picks that freelancing business, The key results receive positive feedback, generate steady income, and secure at least three consistent tides. We have to add six more key results for the other objectives, like begin fitness journey and develop healthy habits. I will do this right now. I will go a little bit faster. Now we start with zero and we have 12 weeks, five times, which is 60, 60 times of workout. I will copy the initiative ideas here then we just got period also the objective, which is the fitness journey. In the case, I will copy this two times. Tablo fasting is the next key resort practice. 16 hours fast, 8 hours, eating five days a week. Let's do that. Here are some initiative ideas. Create a sched when you want to fast's 60 times since it's five times a week. And track your progress in notion. A great way. The first year result is take at least one day fully off per week. Yeah. To explore the places where you were traveling to and Yeah. Learn something about the culture and also recover from the working week. Do it like this. Yeah, the initiatives are also clear plan block the days off in advance, plenty of breaks. It's also important to not burn out. You need to listen to your body when you need breaks. Sometimes we forget about that. But on the long run, you really need to take care of yourself and also have enough breaks and time off to refill your batteries. It's also helpful to follow your schedule during the week and not waste your time and try to automate whatever you can. Then we have the last objective, start expanding knowledge and skills. Read at least three books to personal growth. Yeah, please. This is one idea to do So let's replace this. We start with zero and we have three books, This is one per month. The initiatives are also clear research and create a reading list set aside dedicated reading time each day Using E reader or audiobooks tweet weekly in a thread about what you have learned. To also apply or store the learn information in a stronger way, we go in again and select periods free. The objective is start spending a personal knowledge and skills. Then I will copy it twice again. Second, second period Art. Here is finish online course related to photo, video editing or social media management. Also quite clear on online course Resurgent, Choose the most suitable course, the Princess. Our objectives, create study schedule and stick to it. And also apply the knowledge to your own social media accounts to grow your business. The third result would be learn the basics. Let's say 200 phrases of local language in each country you visited. We would only do that if we stay longer than one month in the country. For that, you can use apps like lingo. You can of course, go to local meet ups or whatever helps you do. What is also really helpful is to develop a daily habit of language learning. We also do that just in the morning after waking up. Half an hour can help you to reach your goals. So we have the specified the quarter objectives. Set the key results. Yeah, also the initiatives. We also already assigned the key results that we defined to an objective and the period. Yeah, you see here the progress is zero since we didn't start yet. But as you also heard in the course, what is really, really important to make your objective and key rest method successful is frequently updating your key results. I would suggest to do this at least week, maybe in a group, in the team. If you're alone, you can of course, do it alone or find an accountability partner. Basically go to your key rests. You can do it here, you can click on the temperate here, key rest, track, then track my week and say, okay, I'm tracking week one, I did add my day off this week, so you can add value one if you are, for example, like I will show you with the fasting for exercise at least five weeks. Let's do it here as well. You can add your key rest tracking, you just need to do this in the first week, but then it will be here already for the next week and say, okay, we are in week one. This is the keys exercise for at least 30 minutes a day, five times a week. Yeah, let's say you didn't managed to do it five times, but we did it three times. You can add the value here and then it will be automatically updated. And you see the progress. You see we added here, yeah, updated our progress and the program is now at 8% here with the exercise, it's at 5% Let's also update the intermediate fasting, let's say we did it five times a week as plant. Yeah, we are also at 8% Yeah, that's what you do on a weekly basis. You basically go through all your key results and update the values here. We also see the total progress that we have for now. Basically, that's what I also wanted to show you because we already assigned before the key results to the objective and the time period here when we were defining the key results. But you can also do it in the assigned key results block. It's maybe easier because you only have them here you see you have your key result and then here you can choose your objective that it's belonging to. And also the period when you plan to do this objective. That's it for this video. I hope you enjoyed it. Thanks for watching and see you. 9. How to take action?: Welcome back to this video. Today we're going to talk about taking action because knowledge isn't power until applied, as Dale Carnegie already said. Yeah, it's just really important not only to plan, but actually really take action as well. I know many people, maybe I was one of them myself, 25 years ago, who just got lost in the planning and not took action enough. You really need the right proportions there. Usually in the end, it's about taking actions because that is what will bring you forward and bring you closer to your goals. So to summarize that, you just should do as much planning as necessary. But yeah, you really need to get going and take action and that's the key, We will talk about it. Now, a little reminder, you're not alone in this journey. Everybody is struggling with procrastination, with problems that come up that we're not planned in. You just need to find a way how to deal with them so that they don't shake you off your path, that you have ahead to achieve your goals. Everybody knows that feeling. You wake up in the morning and you feel like crap, it's normal. Just use the energy that you have. And moving forward, even if you have a bad hair day or you have a bad day, just do less or do different tasks. Just keep the streak going. Keep moving forward to your gods every single day, and then you will succeed in the end. That's how easy it is, or at least in theory, how easy it is. As we learned before, your time and energy is a very limited resource use it wisely. More important than working hard is working smart. If you can combine both work hard and smart, of course, great. Also during your journey, first three month of iteration of objectives and key results, you might spot a result that just doesn't make sense. It's not a big deal to change the key result, especially when you start out that's normal. It can happen. But just make sure to take a note, what's the problem with the key rest and consider it in the review when you are doing your final retrospective after three months, look back why you planned it in and why it didn't work out just to improve every iteration and make or better objectives and results for the next iteration. One example, Covid 19 has really destroyed many successful and also sustainable businesses overnight. Basically, if your OKRs are planned before Covid happened and you just need to react to the current situation, of course you need to adjust your objectives and results, but Covid is also not the usual thing to happen. In the normal case, you should stick to your objectives and rests, since it's just for a span of three months. If you regularly change all your objectives and key results within three months, it will be hard to be successful with your business because, yeah, you need some direction that you're following at least and some consistency in the process when you want to be successful. Congrats, you're done. Just don't forget to stay flexible, iterate and improve, but also do have some fun on the journey. 10. How to measure and review your progress?: Welcome back to the video, measure and Review. This is one of the most and overseen, under rated and underestimated point. If you're not measuring and reviewing your goers after some period of time, you're most probably not going to succeed to look back after an iteration and see what went well. What didn't go so well is a really important part and can really make the difference between success and failure, which is often really a tiny thing that can make the difference. Yeah, it's also be hard to be aware of what was really making the difference, but usually it's small things. It's actually way easier to set thoughtful goals than stay on track and achieve them. As we learned before, there are many obstacles on the way. Of course, many distractions, many disappointments. Weekly reviews will just help you do stay on track and improve on a weekly basis. If you check on a weekly basis, worked in the last week didn't work and then can do more of the things that worked in the next week and do less of the things that didn't work or find new approaches, better initiatives or action items. Then you will improve a little bit every week. And that's what it's all about, as we said before as well. You need to find a system that you can trust. It doesn't matter if you start scribbling down everything in your physical notebook. If you use Google Calendar as I prefer to use notion because you can create way more sophisticated systems. It's not about the tools. This is also, can be also a trap for you. If I talked before about people who are just falling into the trap of forever planning and never taking action. This can also happen with tools. If you're only playing around with the tools to make the perfect system, you will probably forget to take actions to reaching your goals. Just try different things. Use the thing that work for you over time. You will figure it out and then stick to that. There are many different ways how to achieve what you want to achieve and which tools you can use to achieve it. Just everyone's abilities and preferences are different. Yeah, The most important thing is that you pick the system or find the system that suits you best. Yeah. Lets you move forward or supports your journey forward best. It is essential to hold ourselves accountable for the actions we do, but it's also important to be accountable to others. Find yourself accountability partner. If you want to use a professional service, you can always write us and yeah, can find an appointment to discuss how we can help you on your journey. Accountability partners can really make a big difference since they help you to stay accountable towards your goals. Just schedule an appointment. Congrats. You're still here and you reached the end of this course. By now, you should be able to set track and achieve any goal you set for yourself. In this course, we were going through different facts about goal setting and what keeps you away from reaching your goers. We were talking about being honest, on analyzing your personal situation. To figure out the path to the place you want to be, the person you want to become, the business you want to have. Then we talked about objectives and key results first. What objectives are, what key results are? How to break them down into initiatives and action items. Yeah, how to take action, of course as well. And find the system that works for you. I hope you enjoyed this course and see you soon.