Personal growth glossary: planning, habits, goals and focus

Daily planning is writing a short list of what you will do today, in order, before the day starts.

In Aimgod the day is one screen with that list: a few minutes the evening before or in the morning, then a short check at night.

Read the guide: How to Plan Your Day: A Simple 5 Step System That Actually Works (2027)

The day is the only unit of planning you can actually live: a list for today, not a calendar of the month.

The day in Aimgod is one screen with a short list of tasks for today. Tasks with a time come first, the rest follow in the order you gave them.

Read the guide: A Personal Day Planner for Work, Study and Family: Five Real Days

Deep work is a stretch of one to a few hours on one hard task without messages, calls or switching.

In Aimgod it is a timed task with a star on it, placed right after the morning habits, before anything easy.

Read the guide: Do the Hardest Thing First? 5 Rules That Beat Eat the Frog (2027)

Eat the frog is the popular name for doing the task you dread most first thing in the morning, so the rest of the day is lighter.

Read the guide: Do the Hardest Thing First? 5 Rules That Beat Eat the Frog (2027)

Energy management is planning by when you have the strength for a kind of work, not only by the hours that are free.

In Aimgod the hard work takes the morning hours, calls and small tasks come after, and rest sits in the day as a task with its own sphere.

Read the guide: How to Manage Your Energy, Not Just Your Time

An evening review is the last look at the day: what got done, what moves to tomorrow, what gets dropped.

In Aimgod the Tidy today line does the moving in one tap, tomorrow first, and shows what went where.

Read the guide: How to Plan Your Day: A Simple 5 Step System That Actually Works (2027)

The five minute rule is a promise to work on an avoided task for only five minutes, because starting is the hard part and the rest usually follows.

Aimgod notices a task you keep moving from day to day and offers to make the first step five minutes.

Read the guide: The 5 Minute Rule for Procrastination: Just Start

A fresh start is a day that begins clean, without yesterday's leftovers and without guilt about them.

When a day leaves tasks open, Aimgod asks once: bring them to today, spread them over the week, or let them go.

Read the guide: Procrastination Guilt: How to Get Back on Track After a Lost Week

Hardest thing first means the one task that moves the day goes before anything easy, while the head is fresh.

In Aimgod it goes right after the morning habits, with a star on it. A list of fourteen has no hardest thing, only a pile.

Read the guide: Do the Hardest Thing First? 5 Rules That Beat Eat the Frog (2027)

An if then plan ties an action to a moment or a place in advance: if it is 7 in the morning, then I put on my running shoes.

In Aimgod the moment is a time on the task and the place is its position in the day, so the plan is written before the choice comes.

Read the guide: If-Then Planning and Habit Stacking: My Real Morning Chain

Overplanning is putting more on the day than you ever finish, so the list loses meaning and every evening ends with leftovers.

Aimgod learns how many tasks you usually finish and, on a day with far more, asks you to pick your main ones; the rest moves to the coming days.

Read the guide: How to Plan Your Day When You Have Too Many Tasks

Planning tomorrow means writing the next day's list the evening before, so the morning starts with doing, not deciding.

In Aimgod the hardest thing goes on top and a time goes on the few tasks that need one; the rest keeps the order you gave it.

Read the guide: How to Plan Your Day: A Simple 5 Step System That Actually Works (2027)

Pomodoro is working in timed rounds, usually 25 minutes of work and a 5 minute break, with a timer that you obey.

A star is a mark on the one item that matters most right now, so it is visible at a glance.

In Aimgod a task, a goal or a focus point can be starred; the star marks the hardest thing of the day and the goals you keep in front of you.

Read the guide: Do the Hardest Thing First? 5 Rules That Beat Eat the Frog (2027)

A subtask is a small step inside a task, written so the first move is obvious.

In Aimgod a big task gets subtasks; the first one should take five minutes.

Read the guide: Task Avoidance: How to Start a Task You Keep Avoiding

Time blocking is giving a task a start time and a length, so the day is a row of blocks instead of a list of wishes.

In Aimgod a block is a task with a time; the timed tasks line up at the top of the day, and the rest stays a plain list below.

Read the guide: Time Blocking for Beginners: 7 Steps to Give Every Task a Place

A time ruler is a way to set a time by sliding along a line of the day instead of typing hours and minutes.

In Aimgod you tap the task and the row unfolds into a ruler, morning on the left, evening on the right. Two taps and the time is set.

Read the guide: A Time Picker That Takes Two Taps: How Setting a Time Got Simple

A timed task is a task with a start time, so it sits at a fixed place in the day instead of floating in a list.

In Aimgod a task with a time moves up to its place among the other timed tasks, so the top of the day reads like a schedule and the bottom like a list.

Read the guide: A Time Picker That Takes Two Taps: How Setting a Time Got Simple

A weekly review is a short look once a week at what was planned, what got done and what to change next week.

Mine takes five minutes on two numbers in the Aimgod dashboard, planned versus done and how each habit holds.

Read the guide: Weekly Review: How I Review My Days, Weeks and Plan the Next One

A habit is an action you repeat on a cue often enough that it stops needing a decision.

In Aimgod a habit is a repeating task. It gets its own Habit tab with the rate, eight weeks of bars and the streak, so you see how steady it really is.

Read the guide: Habit Building App: How Aimgod Turns Tasks Into Habits

The habit loop is cue, action, reward: something triggers the action, you do it, something pleasant follows, and the loop gets stronger each round.

In Aimgod the cue is the time on the repeating task and the reward is the tick, the streak and the bar that grows.

Read the guide: Habit Building App: How Aimgod Turns Tasks Into Habits

The habit rate is the share of planned days on which the habit got done over the last weeks.

I watch the rate in Aimgod, not the streak. A habit at 80% is a habit; a broken streak is just a missed day.

Read the guide: Habit Building App: How Aimgod Turns Tasks Into Habits

Habit stacking is attaching a new habit to one you already have: after I pour the coffee, I write three lines.

In Aimgod the new repeating task gets the time right after the old one, so they sit together in every day.

A habit tracker is a record of the days a habit got done, so you see the pattern instead of guessing.

In Aimgod every repeating task is tracked by itself: the Habit tab shows eight weeks of bars, the rate and the streak.

Read the guide: Track What You Don't Do: The Habit Nobody Puts in a Planner

A keystone habit is one habit that quietly pulls others along, like sleep before midnight pulling the morning, the gym and the food.

A lapse is one missed day or one slip; a relapse is giving the habit up, and the first does not have to become the second.

In Aimgod a miss is one empty bar among eight weeks of bars; the rate barely moves, and the next day is a normal day.

Moderation is keeping a habit within a limit; abstinence is a clear zero, and for some habits the zero is easier than the limit.

In Aimgod a stop habit is a repeating task you tick when you did not do the thing, so the day you did not drink counts like any other win.

A routine is a fixed order of a few actions that you run as one piece, like a morning or an evening.

In Aimgod a routine is a few repeating tasks with times, in the same order every day; in hard times it is the thing that keeps the day standing.

Read the guide: Daily Routine for Hard Times: Let Small Habits Carry You

A streak is the number of days in a row a habit got done.

The streak ring in Aimgod fills at 67 days, because a habit takes about 66 days to settle, and the day you are on counts too.

Read the guide: How Long Does It Take to Form a Habit? 66 Days vs 10 Real Habits I Timed (2027 Guide)

A thirty day experiment is trying a change for one month as a test, not as a vow, and deciding at the end whether it stays.

In Aimgod it is a repeating task; after a month the Habit tab tells you how it went in one number.

Carry over is moving the goals you did not finish into the next period instead of losing them or pretending they are done.

When a month, quarter or year ends with open goals, Aimgod asks once whether to move them; the originals stay unfinished in the archive, honestly.

A goal is a result you can tick off by a date, not a wish or a direction.

In Aimgod Goals a goal lives in a period, a month, a quarter or a year, and in a sphere, with subgoals under it.

A goal chain is an order between goals: reach this one first, then the next opens.

In Aimgod Goals an arrow links two goals and the next stays locked until the one before it is done, so you work on one stage at a time.

A horizon is the period a goal is set for: a month, a quarter or a year.

In Aimgod Goals you open the horizon you want, and open goals move on to the next period when this one ends.

Life goals are the few results you want across the areas of your life, not only in work, written where you will see them.

In Aimgod they start as one year goal per sphere, and each one gets an address in every day through the sphere's colour.

A milestone is a visible point on the way to a goal, a result you can name and date, not just effort spent.

In Aimgod a milestone is a subgoal, or the month goal that a year goal is split into.

A monthly goal is the step of a bigger goal that fits in one month and turns into tasks on real days.

In Aimgod Goals the month is the lowest horizon; the open goals of the month sit next to the day so each task knows what it serves.

OKR stands for objectives and key results: one bold objective for a quarter and two to four measurable results that show it was reached.

One goal at a time means the next big thing waits until the current one is reached, so effort does not spread over five half done projects.

In Aimgod Goals the chain does the waiting for you: the next goal is locked until the one before it is done.

A quarterly goal is the piece of a year goal you can finish in three months.

In Aimgod Goals the quarter is the middle horizon: the year goal above it, the month goals below it.

A SMART goal is specific, measurable, achievable, relevant and time bound; in plain words, you can tell on a date whether it happened.

A subgoal is a step inside a goal, one concrete thing that moves it.

In Aimgod a year goal gets a few subgoals, and the goal shows how many are done.

Values are what you will not trade, the rules you keep when a goal and a person or a mood collide; goals change, values stay.

In Aimgod values live in Aimgod Focus as short lines, and the goals under them have to agree with them.

Read the guide: Values vs Goals: How I Choose When They Clash

A vision board is a wall of pictures of the life you want, meant to be seen every day.

My alternative in Aimgod is Aimgod Focus played full screen: a few lines in words, one by one, instead of pictures.

Read the guide: Why a Vision Board Never Worked for Me, and What I Do Instead

A year goal is the one result per area of life you want by the end of the year, written so it can be checked.

In Aimgod Goals the year is the top horizon; one goal per sphere is enough, and the quarters and months are its steps.

Focus is keeping your attention on the few things that matter and letting the rest wait.

Aimgod Focus is a section of the app: a short list of the thoughts that steer you for years, grouped by sphere. It is the top horizon of the method, the one the goals and the day serve.

A focus point is one line you want to keep in front of you: a thought, a value or a line from a book, one sentence you can read in a second.

In Aimgod Focus each point is one row, with a sphere and an optional star.

Read the guide: How to Reread Your Favourite Books in 15 Minutes

Full screen is a slow slideshow of your focus points, one at a time, large and calm, a minute in the morning to remember why.

In Aimgod Focus it is the Full screen button; free on the web and on the iPhone.

Read the guide: How to Reread Your Favourite Books in 15 Minutes

Intentional living is choosing where the day goes before the day chooses for you.

In Aimgod it is a list written the evening before, with every task in a sphere, so the week shows what you actually chose.

Procrastination is putting off a task you decided to do, usually because the first step is unclear or the task is too big to start.

Aimgod counts how many times a task was moved and, after a few, offers to make the first step five minutes.

Read the guide: Task Avoidance: How to Start a Task You Keep Avoiding

Single tasking is doing one task to the end before touching the next, the opposite of keeping six half open.

In Aimgod the day is a list in order; the task on top is the one being done, and the rest waits in its place.

One thought held in front of you for long enough changes what you do; the trick is to pick it and keep it visible, not to collect fifty.

In Aimgod Focus that one thought gets a star and the first slot in full screen.

Accountability is having someone, or something, that sees whether you did what you said.

In Aimgod it is a shared sphere where the other person sees your ticks, or simply the dashboard, which does not round up.

Read the guide: Shared Spheres: a Shared Planner App for a Class, a Family or a Small Team (2026)

Ask AI is the AI inside the Aimgod app: say or type what the day should look like and it adds and moves tasks, always with a preview first.

It works with tasks only, not with goals or Aimgod Focus.

Read the guide: Procrastination Guilt: How to Get Back on Track After a Lost Week

A connector lets an AI assistant work inside another app on your behalf; the Aimgod connector puts your planner inside Claude.

Add it from the Claude directory and Claude sees your day, spheres, goals, habits and Aimgod Focus, adds and moves tasks, and marks them done, by text or voice. Works on every Claude plan, the free one too.

Read the guide: How to Reread Your Favourite Books in 15 Minutes

A productivity dashboard is a page of numbers about your own days: what was planned, what got done, where the time went.

The Aimgod dashboard shows planned versus done by day, time per sphere and how each habit holds. It is part of Premium, and it only shows what you actually did.

Discipline is doing the planned thing on an ordinary day, without a mood for it, at a rate you can keep for years.

In Aimgod it shows as a list of habits at 50 to 95%, not as a perfect streak.

Gentle productivity is getting results in every area of life without forcing work at the hours when it will not happen anyway, with rest inside the workday.

In Aimgod rest is a task with its own sphere, and the dashboard shows that the results are there.

Planned versus done is the honest ratio of a day or a week: how much went on the list and how much got ticked.

The Aimgod dashboard shows it by day and by sphere; a gap of 20% is fine, a gap of 50% means the plan was a wish.

A shared sphere is a part of the plan that several people share, like a family, a class or a small team.

In Aimgod its tasks land in each person's own day, and the owner sees who has done what.

Read the guide: Shared Spheres: a Shared Planner App for a Class, a Family or a Small Team (2026)

A sphere is an area of your life, like Health, Clients or Family, the unit you balance a life by.

In Aimgod every task, goal and focus point sits in a sphere with its own colour, so a glance at the day shows which parts of life get your time.

Three horizons is a way to plan a life on three levels at once: a focus for life, goals for the year and the quarter, and a short list for today.

It is the system behind Aimgod: Aimgod Focus, Aimgod Goals and the day, where every task knows which goal and which sphere it serves.

The wheel of life is a circle cut into areas of life, each scored from one to ten, to see at a glance which part is starving.

Aimgod draws the real wheel from your days: the dashboard shows time and done tasks per sphere, so the score is what you did, not what you feel.

Willpower is the effort of forcing yourself, and it runs out by evening; a plan, a time and a cue do the same job without the effort.

In Aimgod the job goes to the timed task and the repeating task, so the choice is made once, not every day.