FoY Framework — A Personal Development System
Table of Contents
What is FoY?
Honesty Journal
— Use LogSeqPersonal Missions
— Define Your Missions
— How to manage it? Using LogSeq
What is FoY?
FoY stands for from Focus on Yourself, it's my personal framework for productivity and stress management. It contains multiple common frameworks
- Personal OKR
- Personal Mission
- Honesty Journal
Honesty Journal
A Honesty Journalused to be more honest about myself. It describes my emotions: sad, happy, angry, disappointed, etc. A decision to write down my emotions will help me to reduce my stress, I need a strategy to handle my own thinking, anxiety, and stress. The main objective of this journal is to not keep thinking about your emotions inside your head, so you need to move them to the external brain.
Besides my emotions, it also describes what I really want to achieve in my life. It describes my mission.
This journal also helps me to reduce the burden on my mind. I have so many things to think about, I need to reduce those things. I need to write them down to my SecondBrain, whatever it is, it doesn't need to store inside my head.
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The Honesty Journalis a foundation of Foy Framework , our lowest block of foundation actually is a SecondBrainwhere we write anything about thinking into some notes, using whatever note-taking app you like, for me, I’m using LogSeq.
There are some questions that need to be answered:
- Who am I?
- What makes you happy?
- What makes you sad or worried?
- What make you angry?
- Where should you put your focus?
Answer those questions and write them down in your SecondBrain . From this foundation, we can make our personal mission and continue with our personal OKR.
I don’t know with others, but, after I’m writing down my own emotions, I’ve found some interesting things. The things that make us happy, are a lot more than all things that make us sad, worried, or even angry. There are many ways that make us happy, and there are little things that made us sad, worried, or angry.
Focus on your own happiness, because there are always many ways to made us happy
Use LogSeq
Do we need to describe our daily emotions? I think we need to do it. We cannot control what are we going to face every day, it may be happiness or sadness, or even an angry. I think it’s better to write them down every day from our daily journal, and put the tag #FoYDailyEmotion for each block that describes your emotions
- Based on my experiences from the previous LogSeq format, I think we don’t need to create a new page for the daily emotion journal. Just use our daily journal, describe our emotions in some block, and tag that block using #FoYDailyEmotion, that will be enough.
- Once we create a simple block and tag it with #FoYDailyEmotion, we can explore our emotion’s notes via tagging page, making it more natural
Example:
Personal Missions
It’s something that I want to do and something that I really want to achieve. It’s something that when you achieve it, it will make you happy, anything that simple is just okay, it doesn’t mean you have to create a super company or a unicorn startup or move to Mars. Reading something, learning something, or maybe just sharing a link, as long as it makes you happy, then it's your mission.
Your mission doesn’t need to be a rocket-science thing to do, a simple thing like reading a book, is also a mission. Anything that makes you happy
Define your missions
It’s possible to take from your Honesty Journal, something that makes you happy. Ask this question to yourselves:
What am I really want to do in your life?
For example, this publication is a part of my personal mission. It is just a personal publication published on Medium. It just writing and sharing my thoughts, and ideas on Medium, it's simple but it makes me happy.
Using LogSeq you can do something like this
How To Manage It? Using LogSeq
It’s better to let it flow from my brain. Every day I may read or find many interesting things, each time I’ve found something I need to write it down on some block and tag it with #FoYMission like #FoYDailyEmotion .
If a mission is not clear enough to execute, we need to put it into #Ideas , we need to explore all possibilities and think more detail in there.
Personal OKR
Once I’ve decided on my mission, I need to create my OKR to achieve that mission. This framework (OKR) is used to manage my efforts. Before, I’ve just had to do something that doesn’t have any impact at all. By using this framework, I know how to achieve my mission and how to measure it.
My Personal OKR is a strategy and also a map to achieve my #FoYMission
- I can define many missions that I think are important for me
- But I need a strategy for how to achieve this mission, so that’s why I’m using OKR to achieve it
Examples
It’s an OKR of my personal publication ( LifeFunk ). From my personal perspective, LifeFunk is my personal mission, and I want to achieve it, using my Personal OKR I can describe a map or strategies for how to achieve my mission.
Researches
Outro
If someone asks about how to format it, then there is no right or wrong about it. You can use any format you like and use any tools that can help you.
I’ve created this framework as a result of researching to myself, how to improve myself as a better individual. Before I found this framework, I just do anything random, follow my own thoughts, and then just lost it. Too many invaluable things that I’ve just learned and lost in my mind, so I need to record them in some external storage outside of my brain, so I can read them again in the future when I need them.
Lost something that I’ve learned and done something that doesn’t give any impact will increase my anxiety, that’s why I need my own personal framework to manage my thoughts and my actions. If there is someone that feels the same as me, I hope my personal framework, can help you to improve yourselves.
