If much is still unclear to you at this point, that is perfectly normal. You will understand a lot more in the sections that follow — first through an example of a fictional annual plan, and then through my real one.
By now you should have roughly 20 goals, mostly taken from your global and secondary backlogs. In one of the previous chapters I mentioned that you can also set up a routine backlog or even a family one, and ideally include such tasks in our new, unified, not yet approved annual plan. I admit I do not have such backlogs, but for routine tasks I add them to the general list so I can more accurately calculate my financial and time resources. Note that I do not really even call routine goals goals, but rather tasks. In my case, to a list of 20–30 goals I then add items such as:
— apartment cleaning (N times),
— starting the robot vacuum (M times),
— car wash (X times),
— paying the monthly tax (12 times),
— paying utility bills (12 times)
And some other items. Some of these tasks do take a certain amount of time. For example, cleaning does take time, although I wrote in the previous book that household chores are slowing factors. Nobody wants to live in a dirty apartment. A trip to the car wash also takes time, though here I am rather recording such tasks so I do not forget to do them, rather than to feel satisfaction from having done them. After all, cars are washed quite rarely, and it is hard to build a habit for it (and it is not even clear that you need to). You could also put a trip to the barber in such a list, but I usually do not bother that much. First, my haircut sometimes takes less time than washing the car. Second, I will definitely not forget to get a haircut, unlike washing the car — every time I look in the mirror I will see the need to go to the barber. However, for women, if a salon visit takes more than a couple of hours, I would definitely include it in routine tasks.
So place all your routine tasks and family goals (if you have any) a little below the list of life goals (or rather tasks decomposed from annual goals and planned for the coming year), as well as auxiliary goals you decided to accomplish this year. In this case decomposition is probably not even needed. What decomposition can there be for cleaning, laundry, cooking and other household chores? In fact we do not even include them in the main list, since we placed them a little lower. However, family tasks might be worth including in the main list — I think that is purely individual. The main thing is not to forget to give due attention to your relatives and loved ones. Whether you format this as the main list or place it below does not matter much at this point. We format all our routine tasks as a slightly separate list, not the main one, solely so that in detailed planning in the sections that follow we do not forget about them and can soberly assess how many tasks from the main list we can take on, taking routine obligations into account.
By this point you have probably formed something like this:
— play N hours on a musical instrument 
— learn M melodies
— go to a tutor K times 
….
— buy a car
…
pay utility bills 12 times
wash the car 4 times
mop the floor 52 times
Instead of the ellipses, of course, other goals will be listed, and there may be quite a lot of them. Note that emojis for hours or money appear next to goals so you can see what type each goal belongs to. You can also see that routine goals and tasks are placed a little lower. Goals recorded more as reminders (for example, paying utility bills) that do not require significant time or money are not marked with any emojis at all.
