Planning
Goal Setting to the Now
Big goals fail when they never reach today. Keller's ladder connects Someday → 5-year → 1-year → monthly → weekly → daily — each step answers the Focusing Question for that horizon. Four questions to find where your ladder breaks and fix it.
Results
Answer the questions to find where your goal ladder breaks.
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The Focusing Question
What's the ONE Thing you can do such that by doing it everything else will be easier or unnecessary? Pick your time horizon and domain — get your answer in 60 seconds.
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Build a script to say no without guilt — protect your ONE Thing from meetings, favors, and requests. Answer 4 questions, get words you can use today.
Frequently asked questions
- What is Goal Setting to the Now?
- A method from The ONE Thing that connects your someday goal to today's action by asking the Focusing Question at each time horizon — 5-year, 1-year, monthly, weekly, and daily.
- How many goals should I have?
- One ONE Thing per domain per horizon. Multiple goals at the same level means going small on all of them — Keller's "economic reality."
- What if my someday goal changes?
- Normal — revisit the ladder quarterly. Change someday, then re-ask each rung down to today. A broken connection is worse than a changed goal.