This is drifting.
No direction. Just motion.
No goals.
Goals. Gamified.
Rather build the blueprint first? Go to the Dream Designer Blueprint →Drift by Lifesong·Josh Holladay·drift@lifesong.io
How to move
A mouse won't move the ball — use the keys on a computer, or the buttons on a phone or tablet.
Make a goal
What do you want?
Write it as if it already happened. Not “I want to” — “I have.”
e.g. “I went to Europe with my family.”
Break it into checkpoints.
A goal with no checkpoints is a wish. Checkpoints are how you find out you're off track while there's still time to fix it — and how you keep moving when motivation runs out.
Write each one the same way — as if it already happened. e.g. “I booked the flights.”
Put dates on them.
A checkpoint with no date is still just an idea. Start with the finish line — the rest will space themselves out evenly, and you can move any of them.
Each checkpoint, and any smaller steps underneath it.
Here's the whole thing.
This is what you just built — one goal, broken down, with dates. Most people never get this far.
Speak it over yourself.
You already wrote these in the present tense, as if they were true. That was on purpose. Read them out loud every morning and every night — the ones you keep are the ones you'll carry down with you.
Untick anything that isn't yours. Add your own with the button below.
And when it comes?
This is the part almost nobody does. Deciding your response now, before the obstacle shows up, is the difference between a plan that survives contact and one that doesn't. Write what you will actually do.
e.g. for “something breaks and eats the savings” — “I move the trip back one month rather than cancel it.”
Master the plan.
Last pass — everything you wrote, in one place. Reorder it with the arrows, change any date, or hit the pencil to rewrite the words. A plan you have actually looked at twice is a different thing from one you wrote once.
Drift
Your goal
The plan
Most people never write the life they say they want.
This game gave you one goal, fully built. The Blueprint looks at the machinery underneath it — the reason most goals quietly die isn't the plan, it's the operating system running it.
It's a short assessment. You answer honestly across five areas, and it scores you out of 100:
Your score puts you in one of four tiers, and each one gets its own guidance:
It takes a few minutes, and it tells you the one part of the loop that's actually breaking — so the next goal you set doesn't need this much scaffolding to survive.
Drift by Lifesong·Josh Holladay·drift@lifesong.io