GRREAT
A map from your goals to your today.
Most people aren't short on ambition or effort. They're short on a clear line between today's work and the actual outcome they want. GRREAT maps goals to evidence to plans to actions, and tells you honestly whether they're aligned.
What is GRREAT?
GRREAT is for people or teams who have a goal but need a clearer path from intention to action. It breaks the work into Goals, Research, Roadmap, Execution, Analysis, and Time so you can see how today’s activity is supposed to create tomorrow’s result.
ELI5: it is a map that connects “what I want” to “what I should do next” and then checks if the map is working.
The Components
Goals — Outcome definition. Long-term impacts and intermediate outcomes, distinguishing between directional vision and measurable targets.
Research — Evidence base and option space. What can we know about the world? What choices are available? What knowledge is relevant to the decision at hand?
Roadmap — Program logic and assumptions. How activities produce outputs, how outputs contribute to outcomes. What bets are we making? What assumptions are falsifiable?
Execution — Activity implementation. The concrete actions that generate outputs.
Analysis — Monitoring and evaluation. Measuring progress, validating assumptions, adjusting the theory based on evidence.
Time — Resource allocation. When activities occur, capacity constraints, scheduling against competing priorities.
Why This Framing?
Program theory is well-established in policy and organizational strategy but rarely applied to personal effectiveness. GRREAT adapts these concepts - logic models, theories of change, and outcome mapping - to individual use.