# Mission Statement

A goal in one sentence, and the three commitments that would actually get you there.

It is deliberately small. Three is enough to be a strategy and few enough to be honest about.

## Why it is separate from your profile

The profile describes your situation — age, equipment, injuries, diet, what has failed before. The Mission Statement declares your intent. The platform needs both, and it uses them differently: the profile shapes *how* the coach talks to you, the Mission Statement is what it measures you against.

Without it, the coach can tell you what happened. With it, the coach can tell you whether what happened is working.

## What the platform does with it

**Tracks progress toward the goal.** Where you are, the rate of change, and — where the goal is quantitative and there is enough history — a projected arrival date with confidence bands rather than a single optimistic number.

**Tests whether the commitments are the right ones.** This is the part that is hard to do by hand. Because the platform holds a [correlation graph](/docs/concepts#correlation-graph) across every module, it can ask whether the three behaviours you committed to are in fact the behaviours moving your outcome — or whether something you never listed is doing the work.

That is a genuinely uncomfortable feature, and it is the point. Committing to a behaviour that turns out to be uncorrelated with your goal is the most common way a plan quietly fails.

**Writes periodic mission analysis.** The summarization pipeline produces a narrative review of goal, commitments and causality, which becomes context for later coaching conversations.

## Writing a good one

**The goal should be falsifiable.** "Get in better shape" cannot be measured; "get to 175lbs and run a sub-7 mile" can.

**The commitments should be behaviours, not outcomes.** "Weigh 175" is a goal, not a commitment. "Train four times a week", "protein at every meal", "in bed by eleven" are things you actually do, and they are the things a correlation engine can test against an outcome.

**They should map to something you track.** A commitment with no corresponding column is invisible to the analysis. If you commit to sleep consistency, make sure sleep consistency is being recorded — by WHOOP, or by a custom column.

## Changing it

Change it when it should change. A mission you have outgrown produces analysis about a goal you no longer hold, which is worse than no analysis. The history is retained, so revising is not the same as erasing.

## Related

- [AI coach](/docs/ai-coach) — how the mission enters coaching context
- [Analytics](/docs/analytics) — goal ETA, causality and the correlation engine
- [Concepts](/docs/concepts#behavior-and-outcome) — why behaviours and outcomes are distinguished