GritFlow
    Core Concepts

    Vision goals

    The long-term outcomes that all your Arcs are pointed at. Set once, revisited often.

    A vision goal is the long-term outcome you are building toward. It sits above any single Arc and answers the question: why am I doing all of this? Each vision goal has a title, a deadline, and a description where you spell out what success looks like and what your life will be like once you get there. You can also attach an image to make the goal feel real.

    The Vision page is intentionally not a to-do list. It is meant to be the highest-level statement of where you are headed, written in concrete terms you can recognize when you arrive.

    How to write a useful vision goal

    A useful vision goal is specific enough that you would know if you reached it. "Be healthier" is not a vision goal, it is an aspiration. "Run a sub-90 half marathon by November 2027" is a vision goal, because the day it happens is unmistakable.

    Pair the goal with a deadline that gives you enough room to make real progress. A year is a sensible minimum, since shorter horizons rarely belong on a vision page; beyond that, there is no upper bound. Pick whatever fits the kind of outcome you are after.

    When to revisit it

    Read your vision goal at the start of every Arc, and again when an Arc starts to feel disconnected from anything that matters. The daily work and the long-term vision should always be in conversation. If your current rituals do not visibly serve any of your vision goals, that is the signal to either change the rituals or change the goals.

    Vision goals are allowed to evolve. Updating one because you have learned something about yourself is not a failure, it is the point. What is not allowed is leaving the page blank. A system without a destination has nothing to orient against.