Long-range planning has a bad reputation because it is usually done at the wrong resolution. A ten-year plan written as a list of specific achievements is fantasy — you do not know who you will be — while a ten-year plan written as a direction is one of the few things that reliably changes what somebody does with a Tuesday.
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Written once, revisited yearly. Deliberately not a list of achievements.
Each row narrows left to right. If the last column does not lead to the second, something is wrong.
Pulled from the last column. This is the only part with dates on it.
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Not achievements. The kind of work, the kind of place, the kind of days.
Specific enough that you would recognise it if you walked into it.
Read the quarter column and ask whether it points at the ten-year one. Usually it does not, and that is the finding.
So this template steps down through four horizons. Ten years is a direction and a kind of life. Three years is a picture concrete enough to recognise. One year holds actual goals. The quarter holds the work. Each row narrows, and the test of the whole document is whether the quarter column plausibly leads to the ten-year one.
Do it in one sitting, top to bottom, then revisit the bottom two rows quarterly and the top two annually.
This page holds what you intend. It cannot tell you what you did, because nothing on it knows whether the checkpoint on the fourteenth happened, whether the habit ran for nine days or two, or which goal has quietly not moved since March. That is the honest limit of every template, printed or otherwise, 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 this sheet across and the goals, checkpoints and habits arrive as real records with their dates — then progress comes from what you tick off rather than from you remembering to come back and update a slider.
Goals, projects, tasks, habits and skills in one system, with the work logged against what it belonged to.
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