2023 is getting along! How's your year going? What else do you want to make happen by the end of the year, in your work, in your art, or in your personal life?

Planning can be hard, and it's easy to get discouraged. Virtually all plans need course corrections on the way, whether minor or a completely new approach. That said: planning is a skill, and you can get better at it.

This Goal Crafting Intensive is an online workshop that guides you through a personal trajectory to orient towards the future with a combination of plans & creative improvisation. It helps you get clear on what's important to you—your goals and values—so that you can stay focused on what matters, whatever may come.

What you can accomplish with us:

• Get clarity on what your most important goals are
• Identify possible actions and approaches you could take, and prioritize between them
• Develop strategies to stay motivated and focused on moving towards your goals
• Put in place systems to help you continually reflect, adjust and improve

The Intensive includes advance content so that you arrive ready to hit the ground running, instruction and coaching to provide you personalized support, and a practice group that meets weekly so you can continue learning with peers throughout the year.

Having Goals Matters

The scientific literature broadly agrees that goals have (at least) four important effects^[1]:

1. Goals direct attention toward goal-relevant activities and vice versa
2. Goals energize you to work harder
3. Goals challenge you to persist longer
4. Goals cause you to become more strategic

Some people (notably Dilbert creator Scott Adams) have claimed that instead of goals, you should have "systems". Nonsense. Have both.

And in fact everyone already does have both goals and systems. Any rough sense you have of what you'd like to happen, on any timescale, is a goal. We're here to help you clarify some of the big goals that you want to organize your life around.

Pay What You Want

The Goal-Crafting Intensive is offered on a PWYW basis, for the following reasons:

• Interested people can attend even if they're short on spare cash.
• It lets people pay what they feel the event was worth to them, meaning no buyer's remorse.
• It incentivises us to make the event be really impactful, and gives us really tangible feedback on that front.
• We've done it for 5 years and it's worked great!

There will be a $25 ticket price up-front, to confirm that participants are serious about the event. Then at the end of the event, when we settle up, you pay whatever you want. There's no minimum (and no maximum).

We know some people would rather not engage in economic experiments though, so if you'd rather, you can go ahead and just pay a market rate of $350 up-front.

...now what?