Effluo is a Latin word that means ‘to flow’.

Effluo Goal Planning Framework is designed to help you escape the busyness of everyday life, embrace simplicity, and flow through your daily tasks focusing on your goals.

This framework uses time-tested and proven principles of goal setting and goal achievement. It was built on an in-depth study of great achievers throughout history. This framework can be started at any time because the best time to start achieving your dreams is now.

Framework Overview

Mission Statement, Affirmations, and Visualizations
Three-Month Plan
Three-Week Intervals
Daily Goals
Reflect & Review

If you, like many of us, have attempted to set New Years resolutions by setting goals for a year, only to forget about them two month into the year, then this type of planning is for you.

Research has shown that 80% of people abandon and never reach their new year resolutions. The problem is not the people, but the approach that people take towards goal planning.

Long term planning almost never works. Think back through your planning journey.  When was the last time you set a long term goal and achieved it on time? If you ever did, you are definitely in the minority. Most of us mortals always have something come up, that either distracts us from the goals or takes us in a completely different path.

Using the shorter intervals of thirteen weeks (three months) you set a specific deadline that is a short time away for goal achievement.

At the end of the three months you will reevaluate the goals and readjust the steps to continue on the journey to greatness.  At the end of the three months you can also reevaluate to determine if you still want to pursue the goal. It is your goal in the end, and therefore, you can determine whether or not you want to continue. You will save yourself much time and headaches by cutting out some goals early on.  You can focus on the goals most meaningful to you, rather than pursuing something that no longer fits your personal mission objective.

To make the three months goals achievable the key is to break them down into three week increments.   

If you ever worked with software development you may recognize this approach as the Agile Framework or Scrum. It is a powerful approach to reaching goals by focusing on smaller intervals that can be developed independently.

The key is to master the game of taking one big goal and breaking it down into smaller steps.

When researching the great historical figures this approach continued to fit perfectly with everything that these great people of our history did in order to achieve their greatness.

This approach allows for learning, and for always looking for a better way to reach a goal.   Therefore, even though this framework was pulled together for software development, in reality it is the approach that people have used over millennia to reach their goals. 

You can make your dreams a reality, one step at a time. 

What is your “WHY”?

Write a few sentences answering the questions on the page.

Review the mission statement “Be” section. Reword the comments into affirmations.

Begin with “I am ….”

Add new affirmations as you go through your journey.

Review mission statement “Accomplish & Acquire” section.

Determine what goals you want to focus on in the next three months.

Find corresponding pictures and paste them onto the visualization pages.

Fill in the three-month calendar with important dates and
holidays.

Fill in the dates for the beginning and end of each interval.

Give each interval a unique name.

List the goals and habits you plan to work on in the next three months.

Create a list of any books or classes you plan on taking.

For each goal, complete the details worksheet.

Divide the goal into high-level steps necessary for achieving it.

Prioritize the steps.

Enter interval names and dates.

Fill in the calendar with days of the week.

Add important dates, holidays, and appointments.

From the Three-Month Interval Plan, identify goals and high-
level steps you will complete in a three-week interval.

Divide high-level steps into smaller daily goals.

From the Three-Month Plan, list the habits you identified.

Add dates for the three-week (21 days) interval around the tracker.

Track habits daily.

Bingo sheets provide ideas for self-care and acts of kindness.

Review the Three-Month Plan list of books and classes and identify what you will complete in the three-week interval.

Identify the daily goal(s) you will complete from the Three-Week Plan.

List high-priority tasks to complete.

Add any appointments to the hourly planner.

At the end of each Three-Week Interval and the end of the Three-Months, complete the reflect and review questions.

Make any necessary adjustments to your goal achievement.