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Break a goal into a daily step

Use the daily goal calculator to divide a reading, study or practice target across the days you can work on it. Treat the result as a plan to adjust, not a promise of what you will finish.

Working days

Your entries stay in this browser. Saving is optional on the habit tracker and meal planner; other tools keep entries only while this page is open. Nothing is automatically sent, scheduled or synced.

A worked example

Illustrative example. Sam has a 300-page book to finish before a book club meeting. He has read 60 pages and can read on 12 evenings before the meeting.

The calculator shows 20 pages per working session (240 pages left, divided by 12 sessions). He usually reads 15 pages on a weeknight, so he either adds two weekend sessions or accepts arriving with the last chapter unread.

How to read your result

  • If the daily amount is more than you managed on an ordinary day last week, change the deadline, the target or the days, not your willpower.
  • Leave at least one spare day for the week something goes wrong.
  • Use the same units for target and progress: pages and pages, minutes and minutes.

Plan, check and adjust

  1. Choose a small action

    Write a next step you can recognize as done.

  2. Check the time available

    Use working days and a realistic amount, not every day by default.

  3. Review what happened

    Notice a win, an obstacle and one change for the next plan.

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