Written by Colin
Published on: 2025-08-11
This is a quick journal entry about feats, the most important part of the Fifty Feats framework.
To review, Fifty Feats is a framework to complete one-year goals using the following milestones and activities:
FOCUS > PHASES > FEATURES > FEATS > FLOW
A feat is a one-week accomplishment that aligns with the rest of your milestones throughout the year. It builds consistency, momentum, confidence, and has real output that you and everyone else can see. Coming back each week to complete a feat guarantees progress toward your focus (your one-year goal). Even better, if you aligned your focus to a longer-term path that you want your life to be on in the future or a longer-term goal (say 5 or 10 years), feats are the most meaningful thing you can accomplish. That meaning will have you coming back for more every week, with a sense you’re getting somewhere without feeling overwhelmed.
The dictionary might describe a feat as “courageous” or “skillful”. With Fifty Feats, a feat is something you can reasonably complete in a week that maintains progress toward your larger focus for the year. It might not feel very courageous or skillful at the time, but as long as it is aligned to your focus, it is meaningful.
The challenge with feats is stringing together fifty of them throughout an entire year. Anyone can complete one feat, but not everyone is willing to show up every week and get fifty of them done. It’s hard to achieve long-term goals. Life gets busy, we lose interest, and maybe we forget why we even made the goal in the first place.
Feats will keep you on track.
