The 12 Week Year: Get More Done in 12 Weeks than Others Do in 12 Months
Brian P. Moran, Michael Lennington
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The 12 Week Year: Get More Done in 12 Weeks than Others Do in 12 Months
To really benefit from this tool you will need to carry it with you and work from it on a daily basis. Start each day with your weekly plan. Check in with it several times throughout the day. If you’ve scheduled a tactic to be completed that day, don’t go home until it is done. This ensures that the critically important tasks, your plan tactics,
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Living with clear intention goes against the powerful natural tendency to be reactive because it requires you to organize your life around your priorities and consciously choose those activities that align with your goals and vision.
Brian P. Moran, Michael Lennington • The 12 Week Year: Get More Done in 12 Weeks than Others Do in 12 Months
Results are not the attainment of greatness, but simply confirmation of it. You become great long before the results show it. It happens in an instant, the moment you choose to do the things you need to do to be great.
Brian P. Moran, Michael Lennington • The 12 Week Year: Get More Done in 12 Weeks than Others Do in 12 Months
Pitfall 3: You don’t make the tough choices.
Brian P. Moran, Michael Lennington • The 12 Week Year: Get More Done in 12 Weeks than Others Do in 12 Months
Truly outstanding performers have gone a step further and work to what we call their unique capability. Unique capabilities are one or two things you do absolutely the best. They also tend to be the things that you enjoy doing. Whether you know it or not, your unique capabilities are responsible for your greatest successes and joys throughout your
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Year-end is certainly a rousing time in most industries. Activity is up and people are focused. With little time to waste and with clear objectives to meet, workers focus on the critical projects and opportunities. Tasks that are not directly related to driving results are pushed aside for what really matters in the short-term.
Brian P. Moran, Michael Lennington • The 12 Week Year: Get More Done in 12 Weeks than Others Do in 12 Months
Researchers have found that a portion of the brain, the amygdala, reacts negatively when we are facing uncertainty and risk. This response is quite helpful in avoiding danger and staying alive. Unfortunately, when we imagine the future as being vastly different from today, we experience uncertainty because we don’t know how to create and maintain
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Most new tactics should be added to the 12 week plan first, and then flow through to the weekly plan. This prevents you from getting drawn into urgent activities that are not necessarily strategic.