Fractal scheduling is a method for navigating short and long term goals. It is designed to help avoid stress by reducing the total number of things you are trying to make happen.
First, you pick the most abstract demonstrable goal you have. For example, mine is currently: send my kids to public school 2015. That is abstract because I don't anything about said kids, nor any of the other particulars of my life. It is demonstrable though because in 2015 if you ask me, "are your kids in public school?" I'll know one way or the other.
The person picks goals of increasing abstraction along a timeline. For example, my timeline is currently ten years long. They go from the very specific ("describe fractal scheduling" right now) to the most broad ("send my kids to public school" in ten years).