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Glossary Of Terms
Terminology | Definition | Additional Reading |
Growth Mindset | In a growth mindset, people believe that their most basic abilities can be developed through dedication and hard work—brains and talent are just the starting point. This view creates a love of learning and a resilience that is essential for great accomplishment. | |
Guilded | The application we are using to host our community space. You can think of it as discord, but with threaded conversations and built-in gamified elements. | |
Do Date | The day(s) that you plan to do the work. Self-imposed deadlines. | |
Due Date | The hard deadline that is imposed by others to get the work done. | |
Agile Framework | Agile Framework is a people-focused, results-focused approach to software development. It’s centered around adaptive planning, self-organization, and short delivery times.
We have applied this concept to personal growth, as it’s flexible, fast, and aims for continuous improvements. | |
Goals | Goals are abstract, ambitious statements that share why you are pursuing any action downstream. The intention of the goal is to inspire you.
If you are familiar with OKRs, you will know this as Objectives. | |
Key Results | Key Results are the outcomes that are S.M.A.R.T. - specific measurable attainable, relevant, time-bound. These measure your success towards your goals.
These outcomes are generally not in your direct control. | |
Projects | Projects are the experiments that you will conduct to achieve the key results. You will continuously attempt new ways of tackling the problem with different solutions. | |
Tasks | Tasks are the actionable steps to complete a project and we also refer to them as quests. | |
L-CTRL | Previously called the Super Package, it is our most comprehensive package to achieve life control. Includes all the templates from Be Intentional and Gamify Your Life, and with additional exclusive dashboards. | |
Systems | A system is a combination of a framework and a set of procedures that is designed to assist you in organizing your life in accordance with your priorities and goals. | |
Components | Components are made up of databases, which is where the data is stored. Every entry in the database represents a new item of a component. | |
Database View | Database View allows to display the same content in different ways. The content can be visualized as a list, board, calendar, gallery, or timeline - whatever makes the information the most useful. | |
Database Template | There will always be common use-cases for each entry. Thus, we have created templates to help you easily auto-fill data and properties to fit your needs. We will typically have one for every single type of data that is stored. Depending on your own use cases, you may need to add more definition to existing templates, or create new ones altogether. | |
Database Property | Database Property defines what type of information a column in your database contains and are a great tool to keep your information organized. They are incredibly useful in providing an overview of the relevant details associated with an item in the database. |
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