Last month I laid out the 5/2 document and what it's for. Two questions: What do I want? and What do I do? Ten life categories, five timelines, one sheet you reference daily and modify rarely. This is the first category walkthrough, and I'm starting with health and physical because it's home turf. It's also the category people get most wrong, which is a strange thing to say about a list of goals written by people who are paying a doctor to help them stay healthy. The mistakes

The 5/2 Matrix: What Do I Want, and What Do I Do? Goal setting and health go well together. The whole practice of medicine is more or less goal setting: we see something we're trying to accomplish or change, and we run an experiment. Humans are complex and things come up, so we're never running a clean experiment where only one variable changes. That's why medicine is a practice and not a classically controlled experiment. Goal setting is a lot like coaching in that both star