Life Diary is a Personal Planning, Organising, Scheduling, Tracking and Reporting system.

How to use the system

1. Beginning a 12-week period
   (once per quarter):
   complete your Quarterly Goal Design for each Life Domain.
   (Use the Goal Design Tool.)
   
   
2. Beginning Every Week
   (Sunday):
   do your Weekly Action Plan for the week ahead over the weekend.
   (Use the Week Plan Tool.)
   
   
3. Every Day:
   keep track of Activities and Habits - with referral to the Week Plan above.
   (Use the Diary Tool and the Habit Tracker.)
   
   
4. Ending Every Week
   (Saturday):
   compete your Weekly Review of the last Seven Days.
   (Use the Week Review Tool to feed the results into the next Week Plan.)
   
   Repeat 2 -> 3 -> 4 for 12-weeks,
   and treat this 12 weeks as a year.
   
   
5. Ending the 12-week period
   (once per quarter):
   complete your Quarterly Review for each Life Domain.
   (Use the Quarterly Review Tool.)
   
   Before starting the Process from NR.1 again, complete your Gap Analysis:
   Compare your Quarterly Goal Design Sheet with your Quarterly Results Sheet.
   (Use the Focus Wheel and Idea Blitz tools if you need to.)
   

Measuring & Tracking

That which we measure improves. That which we measure and report on improves at an accelerated rate.

There are two aspects around arriving at our destination:

1. finding the right direction or the best route
2. and then keeping on track and on schedule.

A high performance goal is a goal that is ON SPEED and ON TRACK.

Tracking is to:

Find a sensible KPI, measure its progress, and report it in a way that makes trends visible.

Keeping on track (and on schedule) is to measure against the plan (& schedule) and provide quick-and-frequent-feedback in order to facilitate continuous-small-corrections.

How Often?

More frequent measurements mean that faults continued for shorter periods and smaller corrections are needed.

• A sensible time frame to set Goals is 12 weeks (see https://12weekyear.com).
• A sensible time frame to plan Actions is weekly (Steven Covey 's book : First Things First , etc.)
• Tracking however should be done on a daily basis.

What to Measure?

Should we measure Goals / Actions / Vision manifestation ?

Life Diary does daily tracking of weekly actions.

Daily tracking of weekly action.

Measuring of actions helps us to form habits. Weekly planning helps us to sensibly balance each day of our schedule, and cater for contingencies.

Why Report ?

When we report our position-and-progress three things happen to accelerate our progress:

Accountability, encouragement, and counselling.

Reporting implies being accountable for our progress. Accountability means that there is a lot at stake. What we are doing matters to somebody and this gives meaning to everything.

We are encouraged by our progress when it has meaning and when it is made known. Publishing our success leads to more success. (The Progress Principle, Kramer & Amibile.)

If we measure-and-report it implies a critical review of the effectiveness of the action plan itself. We create a forum for the improvement of the action plan (& schedule).