2 Balanced Life OKR examples with initiatives

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What are Balanced Life OKRs?

The OKR acronym stands for Objectives and Key Results. It's a goal-setting framework that was introduced at Intel by Andy Grove in the 70s, and it became popular after John Doerr introduced it to Google in the 90s. OKRs helps teams has a shared language to set ambitious goals and track progress towards them.

Crafting effective OKRs can be challenging, particularly for beginners. Emphasizing outcomes rather than projects should be the core of your planning.

We have a collection of OKRs examples for Balanced Life to give you some inspiration. You can use any of the templates below as a starting point for your OKRs.

If you want to learn more about the framework, you can read our OKR guide online.

The best tools for writing perfect Balanced Life OKRs

Here are 2 tools that can help you draft your OKRs in no time.

Tability AI: to generate OKRs based on a prompt

Tability AI allows you to describe your goals in a prompt, and generate a fully editable OKR template in seconds.

1. Create a Tability account
2. Click on the Generate goals using AI
3. Describe your goals in a prompt
4. Get your fully editable OKR template
5. Publish to start tracking progress and get automated OKR dashboards

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Tability Feedback: to improve existing OKRs

You can use Tability's AI feedback to improve your OKRs if you already have existing goals.

1. Create your Tability account
2. Add your existing OKRs (you can import them from a spreadsheet)
3. Click on Generate analysis
4. Review the suggestions and decide to accept or dismiss them
5. Publish to start tracking progress and get automated OKR dashboards

Tability will scan your OKRs and offer different suggestions to improve them. This can range from a small rewrite of a statement to make it clearer to a complete rewrite of the entire OKR.

Balanced Life OKRs examples

You will find in the next section many different Balanced Life Objectives and Key Results. We've included strategic initiatives in our templates to give you a better idea of the different between the key results (how we measure progress), and the initiatives (what we do to achieve the results).

Hope you'll find this helpful!

OKRs to establish and maintain a balanced and flourishing life

ObjectiveEstablish and maintain a balanced and flourishing life
KRRead six self-help books to stimulate mental growth and positivity
Create a daily schedule designating reading time
Reflect and implement learned techniques daily
Choose six self-help books aimed at mental growth and positivity
KRCreate and follow a strict routine for healthy living and self-improvement daily
Evaluate and adjust your routine weekly for continuous improvement
Add a consistent sleep schedule into your routine
Establish a daily schedule including exercise, healthy meals, and self-improvement activities
KRDedicate 1 hour daily to physical fitness activities to improve health
Select various exercises that engage different muscle groups
Track your daily fitness activity in a journal
Schedule 60 minutes of fitness into your daily calendar

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OKRs to develop a consistent, healthy lifestyle to promote weight loss

ObjectiveDevelop a consistent, healthy lifestyle to promote weight loss
KRIncrease stamina by consistently walking 10,000 steps every day
Set daily reminders to walk 10,000 steps
Use a pedometer to track daily steps
Gradually increase step count to reach goal
KRImprove overall wellbeing by sleeping a full 8 hours each night
Include relaxation techniques in your pre-sleep routine
Establish a regular sleep schedule to include 8 hours nightly
Eliminate distractions in the sleep environment for uninterrupted rest
KRReduce body weight by 10 pounds through balanced eating and regular exercise
Schedule daily 30-minute exercise routines
Create a healthy meal plan with balanced nutrition
Regularly track progress and adjust plan as needed

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Balanced Life OKR best practices

Generally speaking, your objectives should be ambitious yet achievable, and your key results should be measurable and time-bound (using the SMART framework can be helpful). It is also recommended to list strategic initiatives under your key results, as it'll help you avoid the common mistake of listing projects in your KRs.

Here are a couple of best practices extracted from our OKR implementation guide 👇

Tip #1: Limit the number of key results

The #1 role of OKRs is to help you and your team focus on what really matters. Business-as-usual activities will still be happening, but you do not need to track your entire roadmap in the OKRs.

We recommend having 3-4 objectives, and 3-4 key results per objective. A platform like Tability can run audits on your data to help you identify the plans that have too many goals.

Tip #2: Commit to weekly OKR check-ins

Don't fall into the set-and-forget trap. It is important to adopt a weekly check-in process to get the full value of your OKRs and make your strategy agile – otherwise this is nothing more than a reporting exercise.

Being able to see trends for your key results will also keep yourself honest.

Tip #3: No more than 2 yellow statuses in a row

Yes, this is another tip for goal-tracking instead of goal-setting (but you'll get plenty of OKR examples above). But, once you have your goals defined, it will be your ability to keep the right sense of urgency that will make the difference.

As a rule of thumb, it's best to avoid having more than 2 yellow/at risk statuses in a row.

Make a call on the 3rd update. You should be either back on track, or off track. This sounds harsh but it's the best way to signal risks early enough to fix things.

Save hours with automated OKR dashboards

OKRs without regular progress updates are just KPIs. You'll need to update progress on your OKRs every week to get the full benefits from the framework. Reviewing progress periodically has several advantages:

It brings the goals back to the top of the mind
It will highlight poorly set OKRs
It will surface execution risks
It improves transparency and accountability

Spreadsheets are enough to get started. Then, once you need to scale you can use Tability to save time with automated OKR dashboards, data connectors, and actionable insights.

How to get Tability dashboards:

1. Create a Tability account
2. Use the importers to add your OKRs (works with any spreadsheet or doc)
3. Publish your OKR plan

That's it! Tability will instantly get access to 10+ dashboards to monitor progress, visualise trends, and identify risks early.

More Balanced Life OKR templates

We have more templates to help you draft your team goals and OKRs.

2 OKR examples for Balanced Life