Clarify your pursuits

1. Identify a small number of ambitious outcomes to pursue with your deep work hours
2. Find your lag (the goal you’re trying to achieve) and lead metrics (the behaviors you’ll do to reach the goal)
3. Develop a scoreboard where you track your time spend in a s...

Being able to achieve a success metric is hard, but knowing which metric to achieve is even more important. Discover what you value and choose your own metrics for success, otherwise, your environment will dictate it for you, which could be unfulfilling for you.

Work towards your own idea o...

But in most cases, these numbers are not set in stone. You want to set goals that are challenging yet achievable, and by definition, it creates a range of options. The OKR method sets the objective (what we are actually trying to achieve here) as context for the actual results and numbers that we...