# The Power of Setting Goals You Can Accomplish in 90 Days  ## Metadata - Author: [[Srinivas Rao]] - Full Title: The Power of Setting Goals You Can Accomplish in 90 Days - Category: #articles - Source: medium - Last Highlighted: 2024-10-30 10:08:53.122828+00:00 - URL: https://medium.com/p/9d098e05dd67 ## Highlights - You can always make more money. But the one thing you can never get back is your time - One of our biggest misconceptions about time is how long something should take. We don’t see that we are the ones who determine how long we think something will take. - To our detriment, we usually overestimate the time and make slower progress towards our goals. - The premise was simple: give yourself 90 days to accomplish a goal that would typically take a year - . Resourcefulness is something you can rely on even when you don’t have resources. - In the long run, resourcefulness is more valuable than resources - 1. Constraints Make Your More Resourceful - 2. Become an essentialist - If you want to accomplish a goal in 90 days, you have to say “no” to everything that’s not aligned with your essential priorities. - 3. Manage Your Attention - Unsubscribe from everything that is not adding value to your life - 4. Develop the Right Habits and Systems - Habits are the compound interest of self-improvement. - What you do today plants seeds for who you will become a year from now and ten years from now. - 5. Condense Timelines and Set Deadlines - There are times you already do this. You’ve probably noticed that you get more done on the days when your schedule is packed, or it’s the week before you go on vacation. Condensed timelines increase your velocity and momentum. - Take a look at the time you’ve given yourself for something and condense it. - Visible progress is one of our greatest motivators and measurement improves performance. - 7. Design the right Environment - When you only give yourself 90 days to accomplish a goal you’d typically give yourself a year for, you have a different operating rhythm.