By using her breakthrough approach to Personal OKRs

At her lowest point, she turned to the OKR framework she learned at Zynga, and started applying OKRs to her own life, a journey she chronicled on her personal blog, and revisited on Medium three years later

Objectives and Key Results consist of two parts:

• A Qualitative, Aspirational Objective

• 3–5 “Key Results,” metrics-focused measures of success

Christina set her Personal OKR like this:

Objective: Be financially stable while preserving health and doing work I like to do.

KR: earn X over three months doing work I’d do even if I wasn’t paid

KR: have a manageable budget to predict expanses (sic)

KR: zero acid reflux, zero back pain

Christina Wodtke, "Personal OKRS"

3 Years Later Christina had this to day about all she’d achieved through her Personal OKRs:

"To say OKRs have changed my life would be an understatement. They have made my life possible. They are the backbone that holds my life together.”

Christina Wodte, "Personal OKRs, Three Years Later"

Christina Wodtke’s Personal OKRs are simple & repeatable:

1. Target aspirational goals

2. Check in on them regularly

3. Have a group of accountability partners

4. Identify and keep close track of your “Health Metrics” to protect as you “push” to achieve your moonshot goals

Read how you can apply Personal OKRs to your life here:

https://medium.com/design-bootcamp/heres-how-two-industry-thought-leaders-achieved-and-sustain-unprecedented-personal-and-business-fc4d81b5c600

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