Inspired by Tim Urban's article http://waitbutwhy.com/2014/10/religion-for-the-nonreligious.html, I created my growth framework. I use it to track wishes, needs, and progress on my path on and towards my meaning of life. It is highly personal and personality-specific. These categories work for me:
- meaning of life
- spiritual growth
- mental growth
- long-term planning
- parenting
- finances and living
- personal IT skills growth
- work skills growth
- practical life in general
- personal connection
For each category, there are these sections:
- Overview of my goals and of the spirit of the topic
- Relevant books
- Relevant Firefox bookmark folders
- Relevant Pocket tags
- Relevant Woolnote tags
- Long-term goals
- Yearly goals
- Short-term tasks
My motivation was inspired by this paragraph of the article:
"When I dove into this topic, I thought about my own situation and whether I was improving. The efforts were there—apparent in many of this blog's post topics—but I had no growth model, no real plan, no clear mission. Just kind of haphazard attempts at self-improvement in one area or another, whenever I happened to feel like it. So I've attempted to consolidate my scattered efforts, philosophies, and strategies into a single framework—something solid I can hold onto in the future—and I'm gonna use this post to do a deep dive into it."