The 12 Week Year: Get More Done in 12 Weeks than Others Do in 12 Months

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

Once you have established your 12 week goals, tactics will then need to be determined.

you have greater control over your actions than you do your results. Your results are created by your actions.

In 12 week planning, you identify the top one to three things that will have the greatest impact, and pursue those with intensity. The 12 week plan focuses on a few key areas and creates the energy and urgency to act.

Your current actions are creating your future.

Periodization began as an athletic training technique designed to dramatically improve performance. Its principles are focus, concentration, and overload on a specific skill or discipline. Periodization in sports is a focused training regimen that concentrates on one skill at a time for a limited period, usually four to six weeks.

1. Block out 15 minutes first thing Monday morning to review the prior week and to plan for the current week. 2. Schedule your three-hour strategic block. 3. Schedule one to two buffer blocks each day, Monday through Friday, typically one in the morning and one near the end of the day (e.g., 11:00-12:00 and 4:00-5:00). Remember that the amount of buff

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

And just like you do at the end of a calendar year, every 12 weeks you take a break, celebrate, and reload. It might be a three-day weekend or a weeklong vacation; the important thing is that you take time out to reflect, regroup, and reenergize.