Goals

A Goal represents something meaningful you are working towards — a long-term aspiration or outcome that may take months or years to achieve. Goals are part of the Life Plan.

Purpose

Goals live between the abstract vision and the concrete work of tasks and big plans. They give structure to your aspirations and connect them to the projects that organise your day-to-day activity.

Examples of goals: - "Run a marathon" - "Become a senior engineer" - "Learn to speak Spanish" - "Buy a home" - "Be a present parent"

Properties

Property	Description
Name	A short label describing what you want to achieve.
Project	The project this goal is associated with.
Parent Goal	An optional parent goal, for hierarchical decomposition.

Goals also support a note for additional free-form context and tags for organisation.

Goal Hierarchy

Goals can be nested. A top-level goal like "Be healthy" can have child goals such as "Exercise regularly" and "Eat well", which in turn can have their own children.

The maximum nesting depth is 5 levels from the root. This is enough to decompose most aspirations without creating an unwieldy tree.

Relationship to Projects

Every goal is linked to a project. The project acts as the container for all the work — tasks, habits, chores, and big plans — that contribute to achieving the goal. This is the bridge between the Life Plan's long-horizon thinking and the daily work managed by the rest of Thrive.

Accessing Goals

Open the Life Plan section from the sidebar, then choose Goals from the menu. Goals are displayed as a tree, reflecting their hierarchy.