The secret to living your life to its potential is to value the important stuff above your own comfort. Therefore, the critical first step to executing well is creating and maintaining a compelling vision of the future that you want even more than you desire your own short-term comfort, and then aligning your shorter term goals and plans, with that

In addition to the previous criteria, each tactic should start with a verb, be a complete sentence, and be executable as written in the week that it is due.

Steven Pressfield, author of The War of Art

don’t overestimate the capacity of your team.

to increase your odds of success, one of the most powerful things you can do is to create, and work from, a written plan.

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

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.

To use your weekly plan effectively, you will need to spend the first 15 or 20 minutes at the beginning of each week to review your progress from the past week and plan the upcoming one. In addition, the first five minutes of each day should be spent reviewing your weekly plan to plan that day’s activities.

The physical universe will not respond to your desires, no matter how passionate or intense they are. The one thing that moves the universe is action.