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by oumua_don17 1986 days ago
>> 'I want to spend an hour of time a day with my child' is both specific and measurable.

This is probably not a goal but a system and systems are much preferable to goals. This has been discussed elsewhere and I personally prefer to have systems than goals.

I have still not reached a stage where I can define systems without a goal as a starting point. Even then I let the system make the goal fade into the background and eventually make it invisible/irrelevant.

The key difference is systems eliminate the end stage of a goal and the resulting emptiness after completing a goal.