Change a goal in the middle of the year

Recipes, updated 8 September 2026

You change, add or clear a goal without waiting for the next check-in.

On this page

  1. Add a focus area mid-year
  2. Change a Summit Goal mid-year
  3. Choose what to do with a red milestone
  4. Look again at a Summit Goal that feels wrong
  5. Clear a goal that is not working

Add a focus area mid-year

Something outside your first focus areas now needs a Summit Goal.

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  1. 1

    Open Life Areas, then Rate your areas

    Set the satisfaction and importance sliders for that area

  2. 2

    Open Choose your focus

    Tick the box on that area's row

    The focus tick on an area row
    Desktop: the focus tick
  3. 3

    Open Summit Goals on the area row

    Tap Add Summit Goal for the new area

    The add button on the area row
    Desktop: the add button

What follows

  • The new Summit Goal starts empty until you write one.

See also: score and pick your focus areas, set a Summit Goal from your values.

Change a Summit Goal mid-year

The wording or the date of a Summit Goal no longer fits.

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  1. 1

    Open Summit Goals on the area row

    Open the area with the goal to change

  2. 2

    Look at that area's goal card

    Click into the sentence and edit it

    The goal sentence in edit
    Desktop: the goal sentence
  3. 3

    Look at Compose your own from three pieces

    Change the Verb, Measure, or Target date

    The three pieces of the sentence
    Desktop: the three pieces

What follows

  • The sentence saves as you type. There is no separate Save button.
  • A new wording does not rewrite an annual goal already drafted from it.

See also: set a Summit Goal from your values, look again at a Summit Goal.

Choose what to do with a red milestone

A milestone is off track, and the levels around it go wrong without a decision.

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    Open the milestone card from Goal Check

    Find the Confidence row

    Off track is your own call.

    The confidence row on a milestone card
    Desktop: the confidence row
  2. 2

    Look at the same card

    Tap Extend deadline for a new date

    The extend button on the card
    Desktop: the extend button
  3. 3

    Look at the same card again

    Remove the milestone if it was the wrong target

What follows

  • The app has no rescue action, so you add a new milestone or edit the plan by hand.

See also: grade a milestone.

Look again at a Summit Goal that feels wrong

After weeks of work, a Summit Goal feels like the wrong target.

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  1. 1

    Open Goal Check from Home

    Read the Summit Goal and its milestones

    The goal with its milestones
    Phone: the goal with its milestones
  2. 2

    Look at the bottom of Goal Check

    Tap Edit in the year plan

    The year plan on a computer
    Desktop: the year plan
  3. 3

    Open Vision on your active plan

    Reread your Vision

  4. 4

    Open Summit Goals on the goal in question

    Rewrite the sentence around what you care about

  5. 5

    Look at the same Summit Goal

    Clear the sentence and write a new one

What follows

  • Your obstacles are on the Friction Map tab, sorted by control and by how often they return.
  • A cleared Summit Goal is gone outright, with no history kept.

See also: change a Summit Goal mid-year, clear a goal that is not working.

Clear a goal that is not working

You want a goal off your plan, without pretending you never had it.

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    Open Summit Goals on the goal to clear

    Open the area with the goal to empty

  2. 2

    Look at that area's goal card

    Tap Clear selection

    The clear button on the goal card
    Desktop: the clear button

What follows

  • The sentence and its three pieces empty out, with no step asking you to confirm.
  • An annual goal drafted from it stays; remove that from the year plan.

See also: change a Summit Goal mid-year.