If you take time to plan before engaging with a complex task, you reduce the overall time required to complete the task by as much as 20 percent.

To get different results, you will have to do things differently and do different things.

Effective measurement captures both lead and lag indicators that provide comprehensive feedback necessary for informed decision making. Lag indicators—things like income, sales, commission dollars, pounds lost, body fat percentage, overall cholesterol levels—represent the end results that you are striving to achieve. Lead indicators are the activit

The first step is to ask them to read The 12 Week Year, and have them work through the vision and planning templates.

To be your best, you must intentionally align your time and activities with your strengths and your unique capabilities.

Another benefit of 12 week planning is a fiercely consistent focus on the few vital actions that drive your results.

The good news is that you can change your brain simply by what you think about.

At the end of the 12 weeks, you reassess your commitments and begin again.

Because your 12 week goals were established in light of your longer-term vision, the execution measure also represents progress toward your vision.