In practice, start by naming your highest cloud—a crisp, measurable vision. Then specify two lofty mountains: acceptable wins that still transform your baseline. Use base rates to debias plans (Kahneman and Tversky’s planning fallacy, 1979), and run a pre‑mortem to surface failure modes. Next, create implementation intentions (Gollwitzer, 1999): “If it’s 7 a.m., then I draft 500 words,” chaining small certainties to big aims. Operate in time-boxed experiments with clear feedback, and review weekly: keep what compounds, cut what stalls. Finally, protect essentials—sleep, solvency, and integrity—so that a miss costs little while a hit changes everything. Step by step, this architecture turns aspiration into an upward-sloping floor. [...]
