Growth Framework

Inspired by Tim Urban's article http://waitbutwhy.com/2014/10/religion-for-the-nonreligious.html, I created my growth framework. I use it to track wishes, needs, and progress on my path on and towards my meaning of life. It is highly personal and personality-specific. These categories work for me:

• meaning of life

• spiritual growth

• mental growth

• long-term planning

• parenting

• finances and living

• personal IT skills growth

• work skills growth

• practical life in general

• personal connection

For each category, there are these sections:

• Overview of my goals and of the spirit of the topic

• Relevant books

• Relevant Firefox bookmark folders

• Relevant Pocket tags

• Relevant Woolnote tags

• Long-term goals

• Yearly goals

• Short-term tasks

My motivation was inspired by this paragraph of the article:

"When I dove into this topic, I thought about my own situation and whether I was improving. The efforts were there—apparent in many of this blog's post topics—but I had no growth model, no real plan, no clear mission. Just kind of haphazard attempts at self-improvement in one area or another, whenever I happened to feel like it. So I've attempted to consolidate my scattered efforts, philosophies, and strategies into a single framework—something solid I can hold onto in the future—and I'm gonna use this post to do a deep dive into it."