Original Personal OKRs Template / Framework

This system has helped over 30,000 people to make big changes in their lives.

"Your post was the first I'd heard of using OKRs for personal goals and really helped me focus on making things happen"
~ John Fattal

I developed this template in 2018 and used it over many years to:

🏊‍♂️🚴‍♂️🏃 Become an Ironman Triathlete

💰 Clear my personal debts

⚖️ Lose 15lbs in three months

🍷 Give up alcohol for an extended period of time

📖 Read more books in one year than I ever have before

I hope it helps you, too.

This is the original Google Sheets template. Click here for the Notion edition.

Some of the books I was reading around the time I created my Personal OKRs framework

Backstory:
After using OKRs religiously in my startup, I wondered what would happen if I applied them to goals in my personal life. Things like:

• Fitness and sports goals
• Financial goals
• Personal development

At the same time, I'd been reading Atomic Habits by James Clear, Measure What Matters, and High Output Management.

I synthesised ideas from all these books into this framework.

I published an article in 2018 on my system for setting and achieving big goals in my personal life, and it blew up:

https://medium.com/@jamsusmaximus/how-to-set-your-personal-okrs-and-stick-to-them-632acec44084

The article quickly climbed to the #1 spot on Google, and has sat in the top 3 positions ever since.

It's been seen almost 100,000 times, and I continue to get amazing feedback on it:

My own Results

In 2022, after years of using my own Personal OKRs framework, I completed one of my biggest goals that seemed impossible a few years ago; finishing Ironman Wales.
(3.8km swim, 180km bike ride, 42.2km run)