A goal describes something you want. A process describes what you are going to do about it today. In The Success Process, I explain how I separate those two things and use that distinction across different areas of life.
I call the desired outcome the one goal. It needs to be specific enough that you can tell what you are working towards. A vague wish to improve leaves too many decisions unresolved when you come to plan the day.
Find the actions beneath the goal
The next step is to identify what I call success levers: concrete actions that support the outcome. In the episode, I give them three requirements. They should help predict progress, be measurable and sit within your control.
That last requirement matters because an outcome is not always something you can command directly. You control whether you carry out your daily actions. You can decide whether you did the work, rather than judging the whole day solely by whether the final result arrived.
Apply the same questions elsewhere
I use a personal fitness goal to illustrate the method, then discuss dating as another example. The subject changes, but the questions remain: what are you trying to achieve, which actions contribute to it and how will you know whether you carried them out?
The recording introduces a process I had already been using before giving it a name. Watch it for the explanation of goals and daily actions, including why simply wanting something more strongly is not a substitute for deciding what to do next.
