See how your goals fit together.

Goalaxi charts your goals, the habits that move them and the people you look after as one picture. See which habit moves several goals at once, which goal hangs on a single habit, and what’s quietly working against what.

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Goals rarely stall one at a time. They stall against each other, and against everything else your week already holds.

A list can’t show you that. A chart of how they connect can.

Read your chart four ways.

Here’s Jordan’s: three goals, two obligations and the habits between them. Pick a lens to see what it finds, and why it matters for the week.

1 HABIT · 2 GOALSMorning gym moves Get stronger and Sleep better at once. When the week gets tight, it’s the one to protect.Researchers call this multifinality.

Key to Fig. 2

  • Planets what you want

  • Satellites the habits that move them

  • Wires heavier helps more

  • Springs a pull against another goal

Know what to do next.

The assistant reads the whole chart before it suggests anything, so what it offers does double duty. Nothing changes until you say yes.

For Write again, on one thin route

  • Evening walk

    SECOND ROUTE

    A second way into Write again: think the next scene through on the walk. It’s easy on Sleep better, too.

  • Draft while Mom naps

    RIDES ALONG

    An hour you already spend at Mom’s on Sundays. It moves Write again while you look after Mom’s care.

Time already spoken for?

The kids, a parent and the job go on the chart too. The assistant looks for habits that move a goal inside time that’s already taken, so your goals stop competing with the people you look after.

Not sure what you want yet?

Say so. The assistant asks what you lose time in and what you used to love, and suggests two or three small experiments to try for three weeks.

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Built on how goals actually get done.

Goalaxi draws on goal systems research: decades of work on how goals, the habits that serve them, and the rest of a life connect.

  1. Multifinality

    When one habit serves several goals, the same effort can move more than one of them.

    Kruglanski et al., 2002 · A theory of goal systems

  2. Equifinality

    A goal with more than one route can survive a blocked one, because there’s another way to keep going.

    Kruglanski et al., 2002 · A theory of goal systems

  3. Goal facilitation

    People whose goals help each other put more into pursuing them. Goals that clash show up in how people feel.

    Riediger & Freund, 2004 · Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin

  4. Monitoring progress

    Across 138 randomized studies, prompting people to check their progress helped them reach their goals, and more so when they recorded it.

    Harkin et al., 2016 · Psychological Bulletin

Keep your bearings as you change.

What you want will shift. A rechart redraws the chart around where you’re heading now: two goals merged, one saved as a wish, one let go. Every version is kept, so you can see the way you came.

A hand-colored map from about 1650 that draws California as an island off the coast of North America.
Fig. 4 · California, charted as an island, about 1650. Charts get redrawn; that’s what they’re for. Joan Vinckeboons, Map of California shown as an island, about 1650 · Library of Congress
  1. Jordan’s first chart: five goals.

    12 Jan

    The first chart

    Five goals, all at once.

  2. Jordan’s chart after the March rechart: three goals.

    3 Mar

    Recharted

    See friends more became Climb with Priya, a habit for Get stronger. Focus at work was let go.

  3. Jordan’s chart today: three goals and two obligations.

    22 Oct

    Now

    Three goals in view, two obligations carried.

Turns in Jordan’s course.

Find your bearings.

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“I don’t know what I want” is a fine place to start.

Goalaxi is said go-LAX-ee: goals and galaxy in one word.

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