Why I built this
I built the tool I wish I’d found 15–20 years ago. It would have saved me a huge amount of time, money, and frustration.
I used to feel like I was stuck in a loop. I’d decide to focus on Goal A, and two hours later I’d already be chasing Goal B. Then, a week later, I’d find myself back at the exact same need to do Goal A. Which meant the whole week had drifted away. In other words, it was a lost week. Another lost week.
Every constraint in this system exists to prevent something that used to happen to me personally.
There are only 3 goals. Few enough to stay focused, but enough to avoid ending up with one huge, unapproachable goal. Many times, those 3 goals are really just 3 steps of one bigger goal. Framed this way, they become much more manageable and predictable.
There are also deadlines. Without deadlines, I wouldn’t take the goals seriously. I wouldn’t feel any urgency, and it would be easy to get to late at night without having even started.
Goals are locked and can’t be edited, because otherwise I’d rewrite them two hours later.
The penalty is daily. Not when you break the streak, and not only when you fail the final goal. That’s because the mind can easily accept one loss, even a big one. What it struggles to accept is failing day after day. You can’t quit, but you also can’t just accept the loss and rest.
Days off must be set at least the day before, so you can’t use them as an escape. You can plan for a doctor’s appointment, or even plan a proper rest day, but you can’t just decide, “I don’t feel like it today.”
The 15-minute cooldown between marking goals as complete is there to prevent cheating. Or at least comfortable cheating. Because otherwise I’d just mark everything as done in the last minute.
Every rule is a specific escape route I had to close off for myself.
I really hope it helps you.
Pablo.
