Practice that creates skills and habits for achieving a goal
Habits are transportation with autopilot. They can take you toward your goal or away from it. Metatraining structures practice so that actions develop into skills, and skills develop into the habits you need. A system of such habits gradually becomes a way of life where achievement is a natural result rather than a constant struggle with yourself.
The first step is the entry brief. It checks whether you have a goal and enough motivation for sustained practice. We can help clarify the formulation of your goal, but we cannot create the desire for you.
The anatomy of achieving a goal
Do you have a goal?
Long-term goals are achieved through repeated simple actions. If you already have a goal, metatraining can be used as a tool for achieving it: directing willpower not toward fighting for every action, but toward building a system where a simple action becomes a skill through repetition and takes hold as a habit.
- Not technique
We do not offer a complicated technique. Practice means simple actions within a pipeline built around your goal and your real life.
More- Not knowledge
A skill is the ability to adjust practice to the goal: reduce environmental friction, notice breakdowns and return after setbacks.
More- Not an end in themselves
Habits are not there for the sake of having habits. They conserve willpower and help simple actions stay on course toward the goal.
More- Someone else's goal
Without motivation, a goal can easily become someone else's or merely formal. We can help clarify the goal, but we cannot create the desire for you.
MoreWhy do goals go unachieved?
Achieving a goal is a narrow road with many turns. At every turn you can go the wrong way, mistake someone else's dream for your own, spread yourself thin without a clear plan, lose motivation, or start fighting yourself instead of setting up a system that forms the right way of life.
but it belongs to someone else
People inspired by their own dream can talk about it in a way that makes others want it too. This creates the temptation to mistake someone else's dream for your own.
but on the wrong thing
Without an achievement pipeline, it is easy to focus on what is simpler rather than what leads to the goal.
but to quit everything
Willpower can be spent not on starting, continuing and returning, but on routine - and run out before the goal is reached.
but they work against you
Habits are neither good nor bad. Whether they help or harm can depend on whether they take you toward the goal or away from it.
Practice Skill Habit
Your goal sets the direction, but the result depends on repetition. In metatraining, you build an achievement pipeline for a specific goal, where a simple action becomes practice, practice develops a skill, and the skill takes hold as habits.
We offer a tool in which practice, skills and habits are tuned precisely to your goal. This way you do not practice for the sake of practice, learn for the sake of skills, or build habits for the sake of habits.
Without building the transitions
- There is a goal, but it is unclear which action to repeat
- There is an action, but it does not become observable practice
- There is repetition, but it does not develop into a manageable skill
- There is a skill, but it does not take hold as habits
metatraining practice
- Your goal determines what practice needs to be built
- Practice makes a repeated action observable
- Skill lets you adjust the practice after breakdowns
- Habits reduce how much the result depends on willpower
How is a pipeline structured?
Each metatraining pipeline is not a lecture or a collection of materials, but a practical cycle consisting of a task, preparation, repeated action, a report and an optional external review.
Where do you start?
Before we can propose a practice for achieving a goal, we first need to understand two things - whether you have a medium-term or long-term goal, and whether you have the motivation to sustain extended practice. The decision about whether you are ready remains yours. For this, we prepared an entry brief.
After completing the brief, you will be able to:
Motivation
Understand whether the goal has a sufficient basis - something for which you are prepared to make a regular effort over a long horizon.
Goal
Check whether the goal requires not a one-off effort, but extended practice and a system of habits.
Lifestyle
Make sure that achieving the goal leads somewhere you genuinely want to be and remain.
Start with the entry brief
An interactive online survey without registration. The next question is based on your current answer.