Ashish Kothari explains how to stay aligned with your goals by building regular check-ins: five minutes daily, thirty minutes weekly, sixty minutes monthly, and a half to full day quarterly. He uses a sailing metaphor to show how these "balcony moments" let you course-correct around obstacles and keep your actions tied to your North Star.
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Regardless of the goals you set, you are going to have life throw all kinds of obstacles to you. So what it means is we have to constantly build in periods, what I call balcony moments, to be able to step back and make sure that what we do every day is in line with our North Star, our intention of where we are going. So what does that mean? My invitation is to consider this following set of actions that you can take every day. Before you start your day, take five minutes to define what's the most important thing you want to do today. Do the same 30 minutes every week, 60 minutes every month, and at least for half a day or a day, every quarter. This is the moments when you're stepping back and you're looking at your plan and you're looking at the progress you're making and making the corrective actions you need to do to achieve it. These step back balcony moments that allow you to course correct. It's just like sailing friends. You don't control how the weather is going to change. But if you step back and constantly look at the sky, look at the compass around where you're going versus where the wind might be taking you, it allows you to change directions, it allows you to change tack to make sure that you're navigating towards your goal.
