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If one does not know which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable. ~Seneca

Let’s create a rough draft of your goal stack from your North Star to High Hard Goals to Clear Goals.

Setting goals is not a new idea but it’s easy to get caught up in the complexity and particulars of goal setting — some times hindering performance and lowering productivity. The key here is to give goals a directional system that has them working in concert with each other. As a pattern recognition system, our brains take in information, find connections with prior experience, and then filter those results through actions on what to do next. As an “expensive” use of energy, the more we alleviate this prediction system with clarity, precision and direction — the faster we’ll reach our goals!

The reverse engineer’s formula:

1. Define a goal.
2. Execute smaller goals until the main goal is accomplished.
3. Reverse engineer goal into smaller goals (chunking).

Let’s start with your Minimally-Viable North Star (MV-NS) Legacy Goal

This may very well change and probably will over time…

Now let’s work backwards on some High Hard Goals (HHGs) that support your North Star.

<aside> 💡 If your MTP is (for example) “Discover sustainable ways to end world hunger” — then examples of HHGs to support that would be “Get a degree in nutrition” or “Create a nonprofit that uses insect-based protein to feed people more sustainably” or “Write a book on easily accessible alternative protein.” HHGs are key sub-steps that help you accomplish these larger missions. They are named thus because they are tough and difficult to climb — make it challenging but attainable within 3 - 5 years.

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Let’s chunk these down further: