Elear is the Sindarin word for "visionary". Sindarin is one of the languages spoken by the elves (and some men) in Tolkien's legendarium. I know, what a nerd!
Let's start with what we want to be given from a productivity system. For me, it must tell me in a comprehensive way what I want to achieve, how I will achieve it, and by means of what I'm doing so. Here you will learn to take what I consider the best content and techniques that I've learnt studying experts and put it all together in a single system that does just that; give the information you need at the right time.
For applying this system you will unavoidably need tools. Notion is a great option but is not the only one; anything will do as long as it has customizable databases functionality (even paper should work with some tweaking). In those tools, you will have to create some databases.
They must be linked in any way that allows a space to contain an objective, 2 instances of key results, and that last a resource. Finally, you could also create a "timeframe" database capable of housing the objectives; this link is the only one it should have.
I am a huge fan of dividing one's life into areas, which I call "spaces". It allows filtering the information one receives in order to avoid distractions from at the moment unrequired items.
Let's now delve into the sketchy world of setting goals. And trust me, you don't wanna do this the wrong way.
Allow me to start with ultra long term goals. My suggestion regarding them is simple: ditch them altogether, they don't work. The problem when setting goals that long is that you are everchanging whilst those are fixed. And if you are always modifying them, that is very unproductive. Instead of that, I adapted to my system CPG Grey's "themes". Click here to view it first hand. Simply, make a list of the things you want to focus on, and fill the rest of the system based on that. That way you embrace change, rather than fighting it.
After trying many methods, the one I currently favour the most is the OKR system; it turns out that it is the simplest amongst what I've ever seen. Yet, it allows us to set goals for the most complex realities that we may be experiencing.
Now, there is this page "What Matters" by John Doerr, whose goal-setting concepts I'm taking and implementing in an integral more concrete way. The idea behind this section of the manifesto is to state how I implement those concepts rather than explaining what they are. Of course, I will briefly glimpse them, but you would make more profit out of reading them from him directly before continuing to my take on them. Click here to do so.
OKRs, explains Doerr, are twofold based: O stands for objectives and KR for key results. The former is the what whilst the latter is the how.