Experiments

Goal compatibility checkerTwo goals.
One of them is losing.

People assume their goals are additive and they are not. Two goals drawing on the same evening, the same energy or the same self-image are not two goals; they are one goal and a source of guilt, and the second one exists mainly to make the first feel insufficient.

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✦ How to use it

Three things that make it work.

1
Pick the two you actually feel torn between

The tension is the signal. Two goals that never compete need no checking.

2
Be honest about when each one happens

The same time slot is the single most common conflict and the easiest to see once written.

3
Act on the verdict

If they conflict, sequence them. Six months each beats twelve months of both going badly.

Some pairs genuinely reinforce — running and sleeping better, writing and reading more. Some are neutral. And some are in direct competition in a way that is obvious the moment it is written down and completely invisible while both live in your head as good intentions.

Three questions per goal, and an honest answer about whether you are running two goals or one goal and a grudge.

✦ The limit

An answer is not a record.

This works something out and then forgets it. It cannot tell you whether the number moved, because it has no memory of the last time you ran it and no idea what you did in between. Every calculator on the internet has that limit, and if it has never bothered you then this one is yours for free for good.

EvyOS is the same structure with the work recorded against it. Send the result across and it becomes real goals, tasks or habits with their dates — then the next answer is computed from what actually happened rather than from what you remember typing.

Questions

Goal compatibility checker, answered.

Sometimes, for a few weeks. The problem is structural rather than motivational: if both want the same slot or the same kind of energy, no amount of effort creates a second one of those, and the deficit comes out of whichever goal has the weaker deadline every single week.
Different time slots, different kinds of effort, and ideally one feeding the other — running and sleeping better, writing and reading more. Reinforcing pairs are the only honest way to run two serious goals at once, because the hours spent on one are partly hours spent on both.
It is the version where both actually happen. Run in parallel they each move at a third speed and neither finishes; run in sequence you get two results in the same year.
Then you have one goal and four sources of guilt. Use the goal priority calculator to rank them, then check the top two here.
They usually do for the first month, while both are still new. The conflict shows up when one becomes work and the other is still a fantasy, and the fantasy wins that comparison every time.

Keep the answer.
And the record of doing it.

Goals, projects, tasks, habits and skills in one system, with the work logged against what it belonged to.

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