Three Weeks for Dreamwidth: Golden Circle
May. 4th, 2025 12:12 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ysabetwordsmithThis year during Three Weeks for Dreamwidth, I'm writing about goal-setting frameworks for ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
goals_on_dw. Read Part 1: Introduction to Goal-Setting Frameworks, Part 2: The 1-3-5 Rule, Part 3: The 12-week Year, Part 4: ABCS (Achievable, Believable, Committed, Specific), Part 5: Backward Goal, Part 6: BHAG (Big Hairy Audacious Goals), Part 7: BSQ (Think Big, Act Small, Move Quick), Part 8: CLEAR (Collaborative, Limited, Emotional, Appreciable, Refinable), Part 9: Goal Pyramid, Part 10: Golden Circle.
Part 10: Golden Circle
The Golden Circle is a simple goal-setting framework. It asks three questions: Why? How? What? It creates a clear objective, but focuses primarily on the motivation. This is great if you tend to lose motivation while pursuing your goals. It also supports communication.
First, Why defines your purpose, beliefs, convictions, and vision. Second, How describes the techniques and methods used to pursue your goal, but ties them tightly to your Why. Third, What looks at the specific steps you take to pursue your goals, such as providing products and services. It has to align with the earlier two parts.
This framework connects goals your goals to a larger purpose. Thus it reduces the tendency for goals to feel meaningless and life to feel pointless. Your point is the center of the Golden Circle. For a business, this can help distinguish it from competitors -- or for a person, why to prefer them over other applicants. It also provides guidance for making decisions that continue to match your core principles.
Unlike some other frameworks, this one is ongoing rather than limited to a certain time. Periodically, revisit the Golden Circle. Do you still value the same Why, or do you need to change it? Have your choices continued to support it, or drifted away? Make sure everything stays in alignment.
goals_on_dw. Read Part 1: Introduction to Goal-Setting Frameworks, Part 2: The 1-3-5 Rule, Part 3: The 12-week Year, Part 4: ABCS (Achievable, Believable, Committed, Specific), Part 5: Backward Goal, Part 6: BHAG (Big Hairy Audacious Goals), Part 7: BSQ (Think Big, Act Small, Move Quick), Part 8: CLEAR (Collaborative, Limited, Emotional, Appreciable, Refinable), Part 9: Goal Pyramid, Part 10: Golden Circle.Part 10: Golden Circle
The Golden Circle is a simple goal-setting framework. It asks three questions: Why? How? What? It creates a clear objective, but focuses primarily on the motivation. This is great if you tend to lose motivation while pursuing your goals. It also supports communication.
First, Why defines your purpose, beliefs, convictions, and vision. Second, How describes the techniques and methods used to pursue your goal, but ties them tightly to your Why. Third, What looks at the specific steps you take to pursue your goals, such as providing products and services. It has to align with the earlier two parts.
This framework connects goals your goals to a larger purpose. Thus it reduces the tendency for goals to feel meaningless and life to feel pointless. Your point is the center of the Golden Circle. For a business, this can help distinguish it from competitors -- or for a person, why to prefer them over other applicants. It also provides guidance for making decisions that continue to match your core principles.
Unlike some other frameworks, this one is ongoing rather than limited to a certain time. Periodically, revisit the Golden Circle. Do you still value the same Why, or do you need to change it? Have your choices continued to support it, or drifted away? Make sure everything stays in alignment.
