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Design Goals, Projects, and Tasks Using HB90 Bootcamp by Sarra Cannon
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The first couple of days were easier as you start to think about your goals, what you want from life, and how you picture your best life. I did these types of questions with Cultivate What Matters three or four months ago, and the culmination of ideas, thoughts, and all still stands for this third quarter. The next couple of days will be the hardest and take the longest to understand, create, and implement.
The days follow as such:
- Day One: Vision Board
- Day Two: What I Need, Should, and Want for my Goals and Prioritize My Lists
- Day Three: Time Blocks, What Are They, How Many For the Quarter?
- Day Four: Your Outcome Goals, Brainstorming Goals, and Choose Only Three
- Day Five: Projects! So Much More Than Mini-Goals, These Have Due Dates
- Day Six: Kanban Board Set Up and Adding Your Tasks
- Day Seven: Continuation, Planner Use of the Week, and Dailies
I plan on cutting this Productivity article into three parts, as I have pictures and videos of many of the pieces. I recommend this course to any writer that may be writing a novel, a book, or interested in creating a larger social media presence. You can also use this method for creative projects, health issues or weight loss, or organizing your home. Almost anything that you can imagine can be used for this methodology.
This class was the reason I had not been on Medium much. One of my goals is for social media, which I consider Medium to be a part of. I went through each of the steps, using the videos, and did the homework the same day. I have been going through the steps, there are seven in all, for a seven-day boot camp.
She had a list of questions, pre-bootcamp, to get us in the learning mindset. As adults, we tend to forget how to learn in a classroom or online system. The Zooms of 2020 and 2021 are forgotten as we read and learn in new ways.
I had gone through those questions as soon as I signed up for the course at the end of May. I also first printed out the planner and the classwork first on 8.5 by 11 inches paper but found the three-ring binder to be unwieldy. I broke down and bought 32-pound thickness, half-page sized (5.5 by 8.5 inch) paper that my printer could print double-sided. The paper feels smooth and perfect for my CarpeDiem Planner, with its A5 six-ring binder. I use this planner as my wallet too, and it fits into my purse.
Day 1: Picture
The first day was pretty easy, to picture your ideal life and create a vision board. Most people were going onto Pinterest and Google to find pictures. I tried looking at magazines but as my vision for something ideal is not yet invented, I could not do that.
Instead, I sketched out my ideal vision board. The picture above was created by me using colored pens of pink, purple, teal, and gold. Those are also my colors, which I assigned to my different goals.
My vision board has my husband and I creating our van to take a cross-country journey. It shows a greenhouse with a pool inside, and vegetables and trees, something not yet invented or known. And it shows my memoir, along with the goal of 100,000 followers across social media, 10,000 books sold, and 1,000 steps walked every day.
After each class, we would do the homework and then post to the Facebook Group. This was a private group that only those who paid the $199 for the class. Yes, this class costs that much and happens before every quarter. You have lifetime access to the class, so you can take it over and over again to get motivated and come up with new outcome goals.
Day 2: Priorities
The second day was also looking back on the past, living the present, and looking to the future. What are the things you need, should, and want to do? Writing them all out, I realized I hate the word should, and this has a negative connotation for me. All the stuff that I dislike or do not think I will do went there. I focused on the want and need to do more than I “should” and felt good. I again color-coded those based on my goals.
This was an easy part for me, as I do not have that many “have to do” tasks in my life. I like to write, so I want to write a book. I like to read, so I write reviews. I like being on social media, so why not be on there more? See, easy.
Two pictures, Need, Should, & Want To Do Color Coded by Goal
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I will be back on Thursday with Day Three about Time and Day Four about Outcome Goals.
Then on Saturday, I will finish the Productivity set of articles with Days Five, Six, and Seven. And show you my plan to get more articles, social media, and my memoir done!
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