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January 25 - January 25, 2025
What legacy do you want to create? What do you want for yourself and for your family? What do you want
spiritually? What level of security do you seek? What level of income and fulfillment do you want from your career? What interests do you wish you could pursue? What do you really want to do with the time you have been allotted?
The personal vision should define the life you want to live in all areas, including spiritual, relationships, family, income, lifestyle, health, and community.
Working from a plan has three distinct benefits: 1. It reduces mistakes. 2. It saves time. 3. It provides focus.
The first thing that is different with 12 week planning is that it is more predictable than 12 month planning.
The reality is that it is very difficult, if not impossible, to determine what your daily actions should be 11 or 12 months into the future.
With a 12 week plan, predictability is much greater.
Twelve week plans are both numbers- and activity-based.
Tactics must be specific, actionable, and include due dates and assigned responsibilities.
Vision also provides the motivation to act, but vision without action is just a dream. It is the consistent action that turns a dream into reality.
The weekly plan is the instrument that organizes and focuses your week.
Measurement builds self-esteem and confidence because it documents progress and achievement.
Scorekeeping functions as a reality check, providing performance feedback and insight into your effectiveness.
The data is not concerned with effort or intentions; it simply focuses on outcomes.
While this can be difficult, the sooner we confront reality, the sooner we can shift our actions toward producing more desirable results.
Measurement provides important feedback that allows you to make intelligent decisions.
The most important lead indicator you have is a measure of your execution.
The great thing is that every time you execute, you get feedback.
As a general rule, you should rarely change the plan unless you’ve been effectively completing your plan tactics and it is still not producing.
Physics tells us that for every action there is a reaction, so the good news is that every time you execute, you produce something—it may not be what you expected, but something will happen.
We urge you to strive for excellence, not perfection.
Scorekeeping is not for the faint of heart. There will be times when you don’t execute well and score poorly.
With the 12 Week Year there is nowhere to hide. It shines a light on where you are performing and where you are not.
When we ask our clients what keeps them from achieving more, most often we hear that it’s a lack of time—and yet, time is the most squandered of all personal resources.
While it’s true that we control our actions and not our outcomes, our results are created by our actions. It
To realize your potential, you must learn to be more mindful about how you spend your time.
The best way to do this is to use your 12 week plan to drive your activity so that in the end, you set your goals for the day instead of letting the day direct you. Intentionality is your secret weapon in your war on mediocrity.
intentional time use—is not trying to eliminate these unplanned interruptions, but instead to block out regular time each week dedicated to your strategically important tasks.
Accountability is not consequences, but ownership.
a willingness to own your actions and results regardless of the circumstances.
Ultimately, you choose your actions, your results, your consequences.
When you understand that true accountability is about choice and taking ownership of your choices, everything changes. You move from resistance to empowerment, from limits to possibilities, and from mediocrity to greatness.
To be truly great at what we do, we have to become better at keeping our promises.
five disciplines are: 1. Vision 2. Planning 3. Process Control 4. Measurement 5. Time Use
valley of despair—that having a compelling vision is critical.
Vision is the best starting point for all effective performance-based coaching relationships, because vision creates ownership.
Questions That Uncover the Degree of Ownership
the most important actions of the week. If these tactics get done, you’ve had a great week; if not, you’ve lost a week.
Your chances of success are seven times greater if you employ peer support.
The WAM is used to confront breakdowns, recognize progress, create focus, and encourage action.
Weekly Accountability Meeting Agenda
