Goal Setting, Trello To-Do Lists and Excel Decision Analysis

Compare smart goals to AIM goals, arguing for incremental, evolutionary progress: make goals specific enough to be measurable, achievable, realistic, and timely, with an emphasis on incremental steps.

Develop high-level goal setting by building hierarchical lists in Word, turning aims into measurable, incremental, and actionable tasks through multilevel headings and auto numbering.

Define your life direction through thoughtful goal setting. Create achievable, incremental, and measurable goals by using your gut and passions, and apply practical techniques to move toward achieving them.

Achieve your goals through motivation, discipline, and persistence, build and sustain momentum, then rinse and repeat for lifelong progress.

Establish a daily routine to defend your time and pursue your goals, resisting daily interruptions. Envision success, keep multiple paths, and persist by stepping around obstacles toward eventual achievement.

Move first to break free from a rut and steer toward your goals with disciplined use of lists. Overcome obstacles by pushing through or finding alternatives, then review and repeat to refine and achieve linked goals, as illustrated by Jake's path to becoming a chef.

Conclude the course by presenting an intermission with advanced features and then guide you in managing your personal productivity to achieve the goals you set.

Explore the difference between leadership and management, and between effectiveness and efficiency, to balance direction, execution, and personal well-being while setting goals and mastering time with to-do lists.

Learn to use lists to manage your time, clear your mind, and prioritize tasks with Laken's critical, important, not important framework, while tracking progress in text editors, Trello, and Excel.

The lecture critiques Laken's urgent-and-important framework and proposes blocking time for important but not urgent tasks, using an urgency list to balance priorities. It leads into formal decision analysis.

Break down high level goals into hierarchical lists, prioritize tasks, and track actions to boost personal productivity; turn lists into a Trello board workflow.

Explore how Trello uses boards, lists, and cards to manage tasks, including shared to-do boards and calendar-integrated completion dates for collaborative work.

Explore the why, when, and how of decision analysis, documenting options, needs versus wants, and scoring with weights using manual and Excel methods.