TK Draft
Here is a quick summary of this blog post.
❶ Commit to your Quest.
❷ Deconstruct your Quest into Objectives.
❸ Outline your Key Results.
❹ Connect with your WHY/PURPOSE of each KR
❺ Connect with an accountability group
❻ Check in every week with your group
❶ Commit to your Quest
Above all, I invite you to commit to a Quest Statement for your quarter.
In Q2 2021, mine is: beat the lockdown blue and finish this quarter as the optimal version of myself. Life will almost certainly be back to normal by the end. I invite you to treasure this final stretch of personal time constrained by the pandemic.
❷ Deconstruct your Quest into Objectives.
When you’ve committed to your quest, I invite you to commit to the categories of your life that you truly want to optimise.
Since we are talking about personal OKRs, I invite you to avoid work-related objectives.
My areas of focus for Q2 2022 are:
🅐 Optimise Fitness
🅑 Mental and Physical Decluttering
🅒 Sensory Acuity
❸ Outline your Key Results.
KR are SMART (Specific/Significant/Stretching, Measurable/Meaningful/Motivational, Attainable, Relevant/Results-oriented and Tangible/Trackable).
Your KRs guide to be aware if you are on track to ace your goals.
To illustrate, one of my objectives is to optimise my fitness.
I have four KRs for this Objective.
(1) Track what I eat on Fitness Pal.
(2) Run once a week
I’ll know I’ve optimised my fitness if I reach a 70 per cent average or higher by the end of this quarter.
Any KR should be able to have a percentage assigned to it show demonstrate how complete it is. Your KR is not genuinely measurable if you can’t.
Suppose you had a KR of “go to the gym more frequently”. How frequent is more frequently?
❹ Connect with your WHY/PURPOSE of each KR
It is critical to think about why you want to achieve each goal in addition to defining KRs. Setting inconsequential goals for yourself is a surefire way to fail.
It will be much easier to motivate yourself when you hit a slump if you can clearly articulate why you want to achieve something and have this reason written down in your OKRs sheet.
❺ Connect with an accountability group
The key is that the process has to spark joy when you share successful results and to trigger pain when you share unsuccessful ones.
❻ Check in every week with your group
I invite you to start with the following questions:
(A) What went well?
(B) What didn’t go well?
(C) What did you learn?
(D) What puzzles you still?
🌿 I invite you to try this out and let the community know in the comments below.
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