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I recently did a high level goal assessment, starting at the Life view, then to five years, three years, one year and finally six months. Here I will describe the technique I used to integrate this process into the GTD.

1. Determine your overall life goals.
2. Work backward from there and determine your five years, three years, one year and 6 months goals.
3. At the six month level do a brainstorm for each goal to come with as many actions and projects as you can for each goal.
4. Organize those actions into projects (if necessary) and then into next action contexts.
5. Add an additional context called @@Goals for each item derived in step four.
6. As you apply the technique described here, make sure that every day you have some @@Goals items in your @@today context.
7. During your weekly review, measure your progress towards your goals and ramp up if necessary.

How do you handle goals in the context of the GTD?

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