I've been using 2 Week Sprints in my Personal Life for 20 Weeks
Summary
TLDRIn this video, Stepan introduces the concept of two-week sprints for personal life improvement, inspired by professional project management. He begins by explaining the Wheel of Life, a tool for assessing life satisfaction across categories like work, health, and relationships. Stepan then demonstrates how to set annual and quarterly goals using this tool and breaks them down into actionable two-week sprints. Each sprint involves setting specific goals, reviewing progress, and adjusting strategies for improvement. The video encourages viewers to experiment with this method to enhance personal growth and goal achievement.
Takeaways
- 🔑 Two-week sprints can be a beneficial method for personal life planning, not just professional.
- 🌐 The Wheel of Life is a tool used to assess satisfaction in various life categories like work, health, and relationships.
- 🎯 Life can be divided into nine categories: work, growth, finances, health, fitness, emotional well-being, spiritual purpose, friends, family, and romantic relationships.
- 📊 Assigning a satisfaction rating to each category helps visualize areas of life that may need improvement.
- 📆 Yearly goals should be broad and can be broken down into quarterly and then two-week sprint goals.
- 🔄 The process of setting goals involves identifying areas for improvement from the Wheel of Life assessment.
- 🔄 Two-week sprints help maintain consistency in habit formation and provide regular check-ins for progress.
- 🔄 Sprint planning involves reviewing past goals, identifying what worked and what didn't, and planning for the next two weeks.
- 📝 Having clear tasks for each day based on the two-week sprint goals helps in achieving them.
- 🔄 Regularly reassessing and adjusting goals based on the outcomes of each sprint is crucial for personal growth and development.
Q & A
What is the main topic of the video?
-The main topic of the video is the concept of using two-week sprints in personal life, not just professional life, to improve various aspects of life.
What is the Wheel of Life?
-The Wheel of Life is a coaching tool used to assess one's current satisfaction with different areas of life, such as work, health, and relationships.
How many categories does the Wheel of Life consist of in the video?
-The Wheel of Life in the video consists of three main categories: work, health, and relationships, which are further divided into nine subcategories.
What are the three main categories of the Wheel of Life?
-The three main categories of the Wheel of Life are work, health, and relationships.
How does one use the Wheel of Life to set goals?
-After assessing one's current satisfaction in the Wheel of Life, one sets yearly and quarterly goals based on areas they want to improve.
What is the purpose of setting yearly and quarterly goals?
-The purpose of setting yearly and quarterly goals is to have a clear direction for improvement and to break down larger goals into manageable sprints.
What is the significance of two-week sprints in personal life?
-Two-week sprints help in forming habits, checking progress, and making adjustments to achieve personal goals more effectively.
Why is it important to review and retrospect after each sprint?
-Reviewing and retrospecting after each sprint help in understanding what went well and what didn't, allowing for adjustments and personal growth.
How does the process of tasking work in the two-week sprints?
-Tasking involves transferring the goals from the sprint planning into a to-do list app, creating clear tasks for different days to ensure the goals are met.
What is the advice for someone who wants to start using two-week sprints?
-The advice is to start with a sprint, decide on a few things to implement, and see how it goes. It's more important to see what needs to be tweaked for success than to follow a big overarching goal.
What is the role of personal goals in the two-week sprints?
-Personal goals in the two-week sprints provide specific, time-bound objectives to work towards, which can include anything from career advancement to personal well-being.
Outlines
🚀 Introduction to Two-Week Sprints and The Wheel of Life
The speaker, Stepan, introduces the concept of two-week sprints, a method to enhance personal life similar to its use in professional settings. He proposes using this technique beyond work to improve various aspects of daily life. Stepan begins by discussing the 'Wheel of Life,' a tool used in coaching to assess life satisfaction across different categories. He explains that the wheel is divided into three main categories: work, health, and relationships, each further divided into three subcategories, resulting in nine areas to evaluate. The speaker illustrates how to draw the wheel and emphasizes the importance of assessing satisfaction in each area to identify potential improvements.
🌟 Assessing Life Satisfaction with The Wheel of Life
In this paragraph, Stepan explains how to use The Wheel of Life by assigning a satisfaction rating to each of the nine categories, ranging from 1 (lowest) to 10 (highest). He provides examples of how to rate different aspects, such as work, personal growth, finances, health, emotional well-being, and relationships. The visual representation of these ratings helps to identify areas of life that might need improvement. Stepan then transitions into discussing the importance of setting yearly and quarterly goals, which are derived from the current life assessment provided by the wheel.
📈 Setting Annual and Quarterly Goals
Stepan discusses the process of setting annual and quarterly goals based on the assessment from The Wheel of Life. He suggests starting with broad yearly goals and breaking them down into smaller, more manageable quarterly objectives. As an example, he mentions increasing annual compensation by 5% and improving emotional well-being by meditating for at least 300 days in a year. He differentiates between outcome-oriented goals, like earning more money, and process-oriented goals, like meditating regularly. The paragraph emphasizes the importance of having clear goals to guide the two-week sprints.
🔄 The Power of Two-Week Sprints for Personal Growth
Stepan explains the rationale behind using two-week sprints for personal development. He highlights the common issue of starting habits and then gradually losing momentum, leading to complete cessation without realizing it. Two-week sprints provide a structured approach with regular check-ins to assess progress and identify obstacles. The speaker stresses the importance of understanding the reasons behind any failures in order to grow and adjust strategies accordingly. He outlines the steps involved in sprint planning, including reviewing past performance and preparing for future goals.
📝 Implementing Two-Week Sprints in Daily Life
In the final paragraph, Stepan details the process of implementing two-week sprints into daily life. He describes the steps of reviewing past goals, conducting a retrospective to understand what worked and what didn't, and planning for the upcoming sprint with specific tasks. He emphasizes the importance of translating goals into actionable tasks and using a to-do list app for better tracking and execution. The speaker shares his personal approach to tasking, which includes breaking down goals into daily actions and tracking progress through check boxes. He concludes by encouraging viewers to give the two-week sprint method a try and to share their experiences and suggestions.
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Keywords
💡Two-week Sprints
💡Wheel of Life
💡Personal Growth
💡Habit Formation
💡Yearly Goals
💡Quarterly Goals
💡Retrospective
💡Tasking
💡Check-in Point
💡Agile Thinking
Highlights
Introduction to the concept of two-week sprints for personal life
Explanation of the Wheel of Life coaching tool
How to split life into three big categories: work, health, and relationships
Assessing satisfaction with current life in different aspects
Linking Wheel of Life to yearly goals and objectives
Creating a visual representation of life satisfaction
Setting yearly goals based on the Wheel of Life assessment
Deriving quarterly goals from yearly goals
Importance of two-week sprints for habit formation and personal growth
Process of reviewing the last sprint and setting new goals
Agile thinking applied to personal life for continuous improvement
How to conduct a retrospective to understand what went well and what didn't
Creating a task list from two-week sprint goals
Using a to-do list app to track daily tasks aligned with sprint goals
The value of regular check-ins for assessing progress and making adjustments
Encouragement to start a sprint without a clear goal to discover areas for improvement
Invitation for viewers to share their experiences and suggestions for improvement
Transcripts
hey everybody in this video I want to
talk to you about two weeks prints and
how we can use them in our personal life
uh instead of just our professional life
that work and everything my name is
stepan and on this channel we'll discuss
everything that makes my life easier
gadgets I use and tools that I love so
enjoy sit back relax let's dive in and
explore why two week Sprints might be
beneficial for you to use in your day
today life so before just going to the
two weeks prints I want to First briefly
discuss the topic of The Wheel of Life
The Wheel of Life um is a coaching tool
actually to um assess your current
standing your
satisfaction mostly um about your life
and this coaching tool um there are a
lot of different variations on this but
the one I will show you today will split
your life into three big categories this
is work health and relationship and in
these categories we'll assess a little
bit how we satisfi how satisfied we are
currently with um our life in those
regards and from there we're go into um
yearly goals objectives and how we can
use those for two weeks prints so The
Wheel of Life I will draw now also as
well in The Wheel of Life we basically
want to draw wheel first so let's do
this um we're going to do a big wheelie
wheel and we'll um split this into three
different categories so we take this and
this and each category we can then again
split into three parts so we have nine
total categories we will assess our Al
currently as we are so we go here first
and the first category that we will look
at is um work and in work I actually
like to split this in again three so we
have
um
Korean we have growth or personal growth
and the third part is
finances and in the categories we'll
discuss every these a little bit work
related as a big objective is so and
career it's about how satisfied are you
with your career right now growth is
with a personal growth how satisfied you
are this can closely relate to Career
but not necessarily and in finances
you'll give yourself a writing on how
satisfied you are with your
finances the next big three to not spend
too much time on this now is health so
let's draw three what um District here
as well so we
have
health
and fitness is the first one this is I
think very um self-explanatory what in
health and fitness is we have
um
emotional
well-being and sorry and the third part
is
um
spiritual and purpose so in these
categories we have on the first part our
physical health and how well we're
feeling then we have our emotional
health and then we have everything
spiritual Purpose Driven stuff this is
usually for example the part where I
struggle the most with to give me high
rating
um our third category is the relation
category relationships category again
three parts let's draw them
in uh okay these
are not that nice looking but you get
the idea and in here we
have friends
and community so this is all your
friendships and community and how you
feel a belonging then we have
family this of course is uh your family
and how satisfied you are with your
family and the last part is um let's
call
it romantic this is um if you are in
relationship for example if you were a
partner this would be the Romantic part
to stand besides community friends and
family so if you look at this now you
have a wheel which has nine different
categories and now you can give yourself
a rating in each category it doesn't
really depend how high you can you can
go from 1 to 10 one being the lowest 10
being the highest you can do one to five
you can do 1 to 100 it really doesn't
matter you just start filling out each
category um regarding how satisfied you
are I'll do some examples so I can say
I'm pretty satisfied with work so you
color in the work part uh with growth
maybe a little bit less so you do this
finances you may I could do way much
money way more money so you'll give
yourself just a little bit of Finance
Health maybe you're very very healthy
and so on and so forth and in the end
you have a visual
representation of how satisfied you are
with your life and this actually quite
powerful because not only is this just a
snapshot of your current situation but
also it allows you to um see where you
want may want to improve so for example
in the part that I've now um drawn out
here I may think okay finances is the
category where I want to improve and
health and fitness is very good I don't
need to do that much to improve so with
that out of the way so we have our will
of life now let's let talk about
objectives for the year in the quarter
so we'll do this um and what are we what
are we talking about right here now when
you know that you have a current
standing with your will of Life the next
big thing is that you actually think
about what do you want to achieve for me
it makes sense to have just very broad
goals for the year and for the quarter
the quarterly goals basically just
derive from the yearly goals and the
yearly goals I have a rough idea where I
want to make progress and my Wheel of
Life actually helps me so if we come
back to the wheel of life that we had
earlier we could see for example that I
would want I would have wanted to do
some progress in my finances by the end
of the year or by the next time um this
year uh this time next year so I would
think about okay what do I want to have
in 12 month and from there I can go
ahead and derive actually
um yeah go so we could have let's draw
that out as well just very briefly um
let's call
this uh annual goals and I would call
these annual goals for example number
one make
more money the more specific you can be
the better um but for me it also works
to just identify where I want to work so
if you want to be specific you could for
example say Okay I want to grow the
amount of my annual compensation or how
much I make by let's say 5% maybe that's
reasonable to just start
so um
whoops so we would
go plus 5
% and I say okay that would be the first
part to increase actually what I make of
course you could do 10 15 20 whatever
it's actually you you decide how much
you want to make and how to approach and
actually get there but let's say we have
this 5% from there on um I could maybe
have a second goal in here um let's say
um my um if we come back let's say my
emotional well-being would be at half
but it could be way better right I mean
everybody uh can have or would benefit
from more emotional wellbeing so from
here on I could maybe say Okay
um
um
meditate daily or as meditate daily is
not that specific I could have an annual
goal for me to if the year has 365 days
I could maybe set myself a goal to
meditate for let's say 300 days over the
span of a year so I cut myself some SL I
don't need to do it every day but most
of the days so let's do it this and
have
300
meditation in um this actually is these
are two different kind of goals so the
first goal is um outcome oriented
so we basically say I don't care how I
get there I just want to have 5% more
money while the second goal is actually
process oriented where I don't specify
specify what my exact outcome is but I
specify how I want to approach this goal
uh quantifiably both of these work for
me I use them depending on what I want
to achieve for example uh also for
Fitness I could either do that I want to
increase my weights drop my weight or
something like this I could also instead
of that have a goal to um just hit the
gym four times a week over the span of a
year and Trust the process that that
this and itself will sort out my health
for me so just being consistent is
enough to actually improve my health two
different um approaches to actually hit
my goal your mileage my worry and you
most likely will need to decide where
you want to go from there
so let's say we have the annual goals
and from there we can derive quarterly
goals um how would that work for example
if we have four quarters for 300
meditations that would be easy 75
meditations a quarter so let's say a
quarter could be January through March
right so three month and um for making
more money this could be a little bit um
more uh project oriented so for example
you could either say I want to make like
plus one 1.5% each of the quarters um to
get there or you could more say in the
first quart I just want to identify how
I can make more money apply myself maybe
change a job or uh start a new business
or anything and in the second quarter I
go on from there and after four quarters
doing different stuff I have these 5%
established um these are obviously a
little bit different to implement so we
can't go too much into detail on how
each quarter looks this is very
dependent on the goals that you have but
you get the rough idea of how it works
so you derive from here
on
quarterly
goals and these quarterly goals actually
dictate how you will do your two weeks
prints so the quarterly goals go
into two
we Sprints and these for me are the
important ones so before going in why am
I actually doing two weeks sprs why do I
need to
um make my life to a project of course
you don't need to do this you don't need
to have personal goals you can just live
into your day and in your life and enjoy
life and you can also without personal
goals just decide to go to the gym more
regularly and Etc what I for myself
found two important things the first one
being is that if you decide to form a
habit um you maybe continue doing it for
a while maybe a week two weeks a month
or something and then you slack a bit
you don't continue doing this so much
and you don't even notice really that
you completely stopped doing the habit
and after 3 or 5 months in maybe someone
asked you how did that thing go with um
meditation yeah I actually I stopped
doing the meditation I don't know why
really I just stopped and I haven't
started since yeah I should really start
again so you didn't really realize that
you actually stopped meditating and why
that was it it just happened in life um
this the first part and the second part
is that there could be valid reasons uh
that you struggle with uh the task that
you want to achieve maybe habit that you
want to form and
while it's important to realize how and
why you struggle and by doing this two
week Sprints you basically go ahead and
have every two weeks a check-in point
where you ask yourself do a little um
inspection and ask yourself how did I do
and why my may I not reached my goal and
from there on you actually would um
maybe just a little bit what you do in
order to make it more fitting for you
let's walk through how I do Sprint
planning in a very um in a very broken
down fashion here so usually our whole
cycle would go through
this we start
with um our last week's inspection our
last Sprints inspection more or less so
part one would be let's go a little bit
further part one would be um we would
call
it a review and in review questions
would be
um did
I
reach my
goals and um how how how did I do
basically and for me the most important
part in here is to realize that it's
okay to fail it's not like that you have
to be perfect or that you need to lie to
yourself it's way more important that
you actually realize oh okay I did not
hit my gym goals or my meditation goals
and in the next step we want to figure
out why that is because this why is
super crucial in order to actually grow
so this is a tool for personal growth as
well so in part two and we're
borrowing a little bit from agile uh
thinking would be a retro and in this
retro we basically ask what went well
what didn't went well and why very
specifically so
um what
went
well what can
we improve
why and also how so why Let's do let's
call it
why
and how so these are super important so
for me I actually um have uh gone
through now uh nearly 10
Sprints no this is actually the end of
the 10th print and um in this 10th print
I found myself myself in various
situations where I tried to stick with
it and could not for example I tried to
do a strength training at home and I
struggled with this because I didn't
know really how to approach it um and in
the end I did not commit as much as I
wanted and when I looked at the why I
noticed I was too tired or I had not
enough of a program or did not know when
exactly do I wanted to do so I needed a
little bit more I needed to be a little
bit more specific in order um to go in
now the review and the Retro you can
only do this after you've done your
first initial Sprint so these two you
would not do at your very first planning
but after that you would just go on and
from there on you would have your
planning and your
planning could have a lot of different
uh Styles how you want to do that how I
actually do it is I use my three Wheel
of Life categories so if we draw it very
uh small in
here we have
work
health and relations and I would try to
for myself give me goals for the next
two weeks and no no longer than this
just just try to do something for the
next two week uh for each of those
categories one or many it doesn't really
matter you could also add some per
personal goals like for example I don't
know
um kind I don't know Boog a trip and you
could have Boog a trip as well that's
totally fine but basically you would
have these personal goals as well and um
you would start now um
work let's
say apply for
three jobs I do this handwritten and for
my handwritten I like to have these
little um check boxes just be uh behind
those so I can then go ah hand in the
later on and just check one two three
and I know okay I've have done three
applications I could have
health if I want to let's
say meditate and I want to meditate
let's say five out of seven times a week
so um after two weeks we would have 10
sessions of meditation so I would do a
bigger checkbox like this and would have
one two three four one two three 4 five
yeah something like this so we have 10
checkboxes for 2 weeks and I could just
go ahead and start checking off whenever
I do something so I have my health stuff
and for meditation I could I don't know
do whatever take my partner out for a
date um try to um reach out to a friend
I haven't reached out to in a while and
for this have some kind of gold and we
want would go on in here and from this
planning here I would then start my week
and what I like to do when I starting
this after the planning this would be
part four this would be something that I
call tasking and in
tasking I personally would go ahead and
um bring this all to a
to-do list
app so what I want to have is I want to
have clear to-dos for different days so
from there on I know if I just follow my
to-do list app then I actually reach my
goals this is super powerful for me so I
don't have to look in my written goals
here all the time um but way more I can
just look oh what needs to be done today
okay check I need to do strength
training today perfect let's do the
strength training I need to I don't know
read in my stoic book to today so I do
this and if I've done all of these then
in the end I know with confidence my
twoe goals are met and after 2 weeks I
can assess what worked well what what
has not worked that well and how can we
improve
so having talked about all of this uh
summary start knowing what you want to
improve if you don't know what you want
to do that's it's not a problem just
start with a Sprint just decide on a few
things that you want to implement and
see how you did the part is way more
that you see what you might need to
tweak for you to actually achieve your
goals and stick with something than to
just follow Big overarching Goal the Big
overarching Goal just gives you the
opportunity to improve to work on
something and to try something new so
give it a shot and let me know in the
comments if you've maybe done this if
you want to improve any of this uh if
you have any ideas what I could do
better better actually if if you want to
watch what I actually do in one planning
and have the camera somehow look into my
notebook while I do this this will also
be kind kind of interesting to see how
it works and um yeah like the video if
you liked it if you had any value out of
this subscribe if you haven't I try to
post one one video each week um see here
somehow okay let's do it like this here
will be a new video of one of my latest
uploads maybe the video of out of my um
Travelers notebook and thank you guys
for watching and see you in the next one
goodbye
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