Creating goals with huupe

At huupe we’re focused on helping you achieve your goals. It’s difficult to figure out what you want to achieve and break it down in a realistic, manageable way. We therefore built our goal management tool with these challenges in mind. This post focuses on how to use the goal management tool to create a goal.

Structure
The first thing to understand about creating goals with huupe is the structure we provide. Goals are broken down into three levels of hierarchy beginning with the overall goal and followed by milestones and subgoals.

Goal structure hierarchy

Goals
The goal is essentially a container for the bodies of work and specific actions you need to identify and complete in order to achieve it. In addition to entering a title, we recommend entering a detailed description of what you want to achieve. Writing the description will help you break down the goal into milestones.

At the goal level, we recommend assigning a category as well as tags to the goal. By selecting a category and adding descriptive tags, huupe will provide relevant and meaningful content to you related to the goal to help you achieve your objective. We cover categories and tags in more depth in a separate post.

Goals may also be shared. Once you share the goal, the person you share it with will be able to see all of the goal details, milestones and subgoals, but will not be able to edit the goal. We recommend sharing goals with friends, colleagues, mentors, or coaches who can help you stay on track and provide guidance.

Goals in themselves do not have due dates or set achievement dates. Setting a due date on a milestone will apply that same due date to the overall goal. The milestone with the achievement or due date furthest in the future will become the achievement date for the overall goal. Once all of your milestones have been completed, the goal will be marked complete!

Milestones
Milestones are the next level within goals. We encourage you to think of milestones as large blocks that make up the path to achieving the goal. We recommend using them thematically and chronologically.

Thematic milestones allow you to break down the goal into blocks based on the similarity of the subgoals you need to complete. You may decide to break your goal into three or four thematic milestones: Education & Research, Relationship Building, and Quantifiable Achievements. Over the course of your journey to accomplish your goal you will regularly create subgoals within these three milestones. Their achievement dates will overlap and that is fine and is expected.

You may think of each milestone as a sequential phase or body of work to be completed as you move towards your goal. With this approach you might have a diverse set of subgoals within each milestone with the commonality between them being the time period for completion.

Both approaches to managing your milestones are effective. Use what works best for you!

A Milestone with three subgoals, followed by a second milestone ready to be filled out

Subgoals
Subgoals are action items or tasks. These are the specific things that you need to do to achieve your milestones and subsequently, your goals. Subgoals have customizable characteristics including a description to add additional context, a due date to keep you on track, and a type selector to help you stay organized.

You will receive a weekly progress report to show you how you did for the previous week and give you a heads up for what’s coming next. When you set a due date on a subgoal, you will also receive a reminder notification the day that the subgoal is scheduled for completion.

Have you created a goal in huupe yet? Give it a try or take on a goal from the goal library!