FOR PEOPLE WHO SCRIPT

YOU SCRIPTED IT.
NOW BRANCH IT.

You already know how to describe the life you want in clear detail. GoalBranch takes that end state and works backward from it, one branch at a time, until you reach a first step you can do today.

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WHAT YOU ALREADY DO

You write the end state as if it happened

Specific, present tense, sensory. The date, the room, what you are doing, how it feels. That is a precise destination, which most plans never have.

WHAT IS MISSING

The path between the page and the day

A vivid end state tells you where you are going. It does not tell you what to do on Tuesday. That second half is the part a backward planner is built for.

WHAT GOALBRANCH DOES

It branches the script into steps

Paste your goal. GoalBranch starts at the end and works backward, splitting it into smaller and smaller steps until one takes about twenty minutes.

FROM ONE LINE TO ONE STEP

Here is what working backward from a script looks like. Each line is the thing that has to be true just before the one above it.

  1. Script: it is June, I cross the half marathon finish line feeling strong.
  2. Be able to run 13 miles at an easy pace by early June
  3. Build the long run up a mile a week from week 4
  4. Run an easy 3 miles three times a week for the first month
  5. Today: pick a route and lay out your shoes for tomorrow morning

WHY A SPECIFIC END STATE HELPS

A planner can only be as clear as what you give it. "Be healthier" branches into guesses. A scene with a date, a place and a result branches into real dependencies.

The more precisely you wrote the script, the better the steps underneath it. Keep your daily practice. Use GoalBranch for the part that turns the page into a calendar.

You wrote the destination. Find the first step.

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Want the method first? Read how to turn your vision board into a plan.