How I learned about Agile 10 years ago. Why traditional goal-setting doesn't work.

04/29/24 • 7 min

In this episode I talk about why long-term goals don't work and how we've been mislead all this time by the traditional goal setting advice. I also share my story of finding out about Agile and how it changed my approach to personal productivity.

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Timestamps:

(00:00) - Traditional productivity advice
(00:32) - New Year's Resolutions
(00:55) - My first job at a fast-growing startup
(01:10) - Corporate world - how things are usually done
(01:40) - The time the status quo got questioned
(02:30) - Creation of Agile Framework for building software
(03:03) - How Agile works
(04:31) - My story of learning about Agile
(06:29) - I stopped creating long-term plans 10 years ago

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04/29/24 • 7 min

Monthly Method - How I learned about Agile 10 years ago. Why traditional goal-setting doesn't work.

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Polina Bee00:00:00.399

Everywhere you look people are telling you to create long term plans. 10 year plans are broken down into yearly plans. Those are further broken down into monthly, daily goals. That's the common advice, but have you noticed that this advice never works out? Haven't we all spent hours, days creating beautiful Excel sheet, tracking pages, habit trackers, color coding them. Haven't we all done it? I sure did a lot of that in the past. Every new year

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