> [!tldr] Goals can be tracked in the same place you track projects In the great number of lists you can come up with in the space of productivity, there's commonly a list of [[SMART Goals]] and, separately, [[Project Lists]]. The thing is - goals are achieved through (one or more) projects. Having a separate list of general "goals" has never been useful in my book. Moreover, it has been actively unhelpful to have a separate place where I write down goals from the projects that realize them. Create a bit of [[target confusion]] in two places to look when I'm trying to figure out what I could be doing right now. [[A man with two watches is never sure what time it is.]] Maybe *long term* goals, but that's more like what a consultant would call a "North Star". Discounting [[Metrics]], which are sort of a different thing in my usage of the term "goals". [[I find it useful to disambiguate goals and metrics.]] **** # More ## Source - self