Goals and Values

Weekly plans are short-range. Goals & Values is where you set the direction they add up to, and it is what the planner reads when it decides which of the many reasonable things to put in a given week.

Annual direction

Set your mission, your values, and your goals for the year. This is the longest-range thing asambl holds, and it changes rarely.

Values matter more than they look. When two reasonable plans compete for the same hours, what you have written here is what breaks the tie.

Goals

Goals are grouped by life area and tracked to completion. A goal under Health & Wellness and a goal under Finance sit in their own areas and are read by their own planners. A goal you do not tie to an area still works; it collects in a General group at the bottom of the list, and no single planner treats it as its own.

A goal is an input, not decoration. The Health planner reads your health goals when it drafts your training week; the Finance planner reads your finance goals when it drafts your spending. A goal you never write down cannot shape a week.

Area profiles

Alongside your goals, this page shows the profile behind each life area you have turned on, so you can see at a glance which areas hold real context and which are still thin. An area with an empty profile still plans, but it plans generically.

The quarterly rhythm

Weekly plans sit inside a longer quarterly rhythm held by Life Planner. The quarter sets the direction, the week does the work, and what you complete in a week feeds back up. This is why a plan sometimes schedules something you did not ask for that week: it is serving a goal you set at the quarter.

Planning authority

Alongside your direction sits the planning-authority dial: how much of the planning asambl decides for you, and how much it leaves to you to choose.

Turned down, asambl proposes and waits. Turned up, it makes more of the calls itself and shows you the result. Nothing commits without your acceptance at either setting; the dial changes how much is decided before you see it, not whether you approve it.

Where this lives

Your direction, goals, and values are plain Markdown files on your computer under 20_Life_OS/Mind/, alongside the rest of Mind & Growth. See Mind & Growth for the area itself.