Personal OKRs, Three Years Later

• First, Close Out the Last Quarter with Learning. Take the last week of the quarter to grade last quarter’s OKR set. Reflection is the key to accelerated learning.
• Will you Explore or Exploit Next Quarter?How much time should you spend exploring new possibilities, and how much exploiting ones you have proven work?
• Focus on Won’t Get Done. OKRs for things you’re worried you’re NOT going to do, not for tracking things you will.

Start with an objective:

• Pick vague areas to measure, to make sure the KRs provide a balanced way to look at your life.
• Add a metric. Learn to find the right metrics and measure them regularly.
• Focus On What Won’t Get Done and decide what is valuable, and what is less valuable.
• Find Someone to Keep You On Track It can be hard to build the habit of checking in on your OKRs each week.