A while ago, I made a LinkedIn post about how senior+ engineers need to focus on long running initiatives. Since the results from these initiatives take time to materialize, it is often difficult to find the motivation to make progress on them. This is made worse by the temptation of ticking off urgent but unimportant tasks.

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Learn how to track and complete long-running initiatives by planning your days and weeks, creating dedicated pages for each initiative, and focusing on concrete steps to move forward.

How I track long running goals

My system for tracking long-running initiatives

<p>I would add to this to consider reading The 12 Week Year for more tips on reaching goals</p>
