With your North Star goals in mind, it’s time to set down your Rules, Commitments, and Accepted Exceptions (RC&AEs). These are the boundaries you define for yourself—the best “Is Right” path that your North Star is pointing you toward.

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Remember: This is about you living your ideal life. So it should be highly ambitious—something to strive for, something that won’t necessarily be easy to attain, at least not right away. That’s why we call it your North Star.

To help with this, try picturing yourself living out a perfect hour. Then a perfect day. Then a perfect week. Ask yourself:

• What processes (routines, systems, habits) are you implementing to advance you toward your goals?
• What’s going on with you and your vices? Which do you avoid completely? Which do you consume in moderation? Exactly when, or under what circumstances, does this happen?
• How often do you exercise? Meditate? Journal? Any weekly targets you’re aiming for?
• How do you manage your time and projects? Are you using any task management methods, systems, techniques, or software?
• What are your food rules? What pre-planned and acceptable exceptions are you allowing?
• What are you doing to take care of your loved ones? Your community? </aside>

Instructions

1. Scroll to the bottom of this page and open the “Examples” toggle to see the kind of output you’re aiming for.
2. Click the “Add Category” button.
3. Enter your first category.
4. Write in a few bullet-point rules and commitments. Use sub-bullets (hit Tab on a new line) for allowable exceptions or any special clarifications. Be as specific as possible—remember, one key aim of systems is to reduce decision-making. Jogging M/W/F at 11am, has all the decisions baked in. Jog 3x/week, less so.
5. Repeat steps 3 and 4 for as many categories as you need.
6. When done, you can return to the webbook by clicking on the button.

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Again, don’t spend too much time on this. Keep it short and sweet. Whatever ideas you have—guided by your goals or inspired by the questions above—are perfectly fine. Just jot them down.

This will be a living document, to be revisited and updated as you go—as you learn new systems, as your goals shift, as life happens and priorities change.

You just need something down—something clear and concrete you can point to and say, “This is my North Star. It’s located in the direction of my goals. And to get there, these are my rules. These are my commitments.”

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