Goals

• Milestones for the next round
• Metrics for the next round
• High level quarterly goals
• Gates we have to pass through
• Quarterly Goals (Status: XXXX-XX-XX) - deadline: XXXX-XX-XX
• Cycle (=6 weeks) Goals (Status: XXXX-XX-XX) - deadline: XXXX-XX-XX

Weekly Reflection

• Last week 1-3 top goals?
• Are you launched? Are you making recurring revenue?
• When are the next big milestones (e.g. feature launch)?
• Users/prospective users talked to last week?
• What have you learned from them?
• Honestly, what is going on? Where we’re procrastinating, not acting, not deciding, being scared?
• Morale 1-10? (10 = max)
• What most improved your primary metric?
• Biggest obstacle?
• Fear based development
• Which calls should we have done already that we didn’t do?
• What assumptions do we have that might not be true?
• What things have to go right for us to win?
• Next weeks 1-3 top goals?
• Thing for the day on Monday? (most important task)

Recap

• What happened?
• Who did I meet? Best new work contact?
• Book read
• % of trainings completed?
• Highlights
• Lowlights
• Happiness 1-10

Startup Progress (source)

• Last week 1-3 top goals?
• Are you launched?
• Weeks to launch?
• Users/prospective users talked to last week?
• What have you learned from them?
• Honestly, what is going on? Where am I procrastinating, not acting, not deciding, being scared?
• Morale 1-10?
• What most improved your primary metric?
• Biggest obstacle?
• Next weeks 1-3 top goals?

Progress on Top Goals

• Goal 1
• Goal 2
• Goal 3
• Goal 4
• Goal 5

Recap

• What happened?
• Who did I meet?
• Highlights
• Lowlights
• Happiness 1-10

Progress on top goals

• Goal 1
• Goal 2
• Goal 3
• Goal 4
• Goal 5

General progress

• Best new work contact?
• Book read
• Book revisited
• Mental model examined & tested
• Work idea tested + result
• Run once
• % of trainings completed?
• Task list of last week (copy-paste)

Energy Audit

• Using calendar
• Go through each workday hour-by-hour and ask yourself “Did that activity give me energy or drain my energy?”
• Look for patterns of where & how your energy is drained & eliminate.
• Goal: Spend 75-80% of your time doing things that energize you.
• Go through each task & categorize it into zones of
1. Incompetence - other people better & don't love
2. Competence - okay & don't love doing
3. Excellence - great but don't love doing
4. Genius - great & love doing"

Learnings

• What did I learn?
• Am I hunting antelope or field mice?
• Honestly, what is going on? Where am I procrastinating, not acting, not deciding, being scared?
• What's working?
• What's not working?

Goals for next week

• Things to consider while deciding on goals
• Regret minimization: What do I have to do to have not wasted the week?
• What's my main focus of the week?
• What do I want to accomplish?
• Who do I want to meet?
• What do I need to get off my back?