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

by Brian P. Moran

If your actions don’t produce what you expected, you can make the necessary adjustments to your plan based on market feedback—but first you must execute the plan. Too often people want to change the plan before they’ve really executed it.

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

Weekly Scorecard

MErat vykonnost dava mi to pohlad na realitu ludia casto stfkaju hlavu do piesku ale ja nechcem

Have the courage to measure your performance!

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 stands to reason that the actions that we choose to take throughout our day ultimately determine our destiny.

When you spend your time with intention, you know when to say yes and when to say no.

Prwzit svoj den so zamerom teda viem comu povedat ano a comu nie. Nestracat cas wasting nezmyslami

Benjamin Franklin said, “If we take care of the minutes, the years will take care of themselves.”

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.

There are three primary components of performance time: strategic blocks, buffer blocks, and breakout blocks.

Strategic Blocks: A strategic block is a three-hour block of uninterrupted time that is scheduled into each week. During this block you accept no phone calls, no faxes, no emails, no visitors, no anything. Instead, you focus all of your energy on preplanned tasks—your strategic and money-making activities.

Buffer Blocks: Buffer blocks are designed to deal with all of the unplanned and low-value activities—like most email and voicemail—that arise throughout a typical day.

Narqznikovy alebo.vankusovy blok

For some, one 30-minute buffer block a day is sufficient, while for others, two separate one-hour blocks may be necessary.

Breakout Blocks: One of the key factors contributing to performance plateaus is the absence of free time.

Utekovy blok aby som sa neprepracoval

An effective breakout block is at least three-hours long and spent on things other than work. It is time scheduled away from your business during normal business hours that you will use to refresh and reinvigorate your mind, so that when you return to work, you can engage with more focus and energy.

The best way to accomplish this is to create a picture of an ideal week.

Accountability as Ownership

Zodpovednost ako vlastnictvo

Accountability is not consequences, but ownership.

Everything we do in life is a choice.

but there is a big difference when you approach something as a choose-to versus a have-to.

When you choose to do something, you are able to tap your resources and give your best.

Zodpovednost je vlastnictvo goho ze kazdy den si.vyberiem co urobim a nie ze musim to urobit. Tym padom mi to da energiu aj vysledky

When you understand that true accountability is about choice and taking ownership of your choices, everything changes. You move from resistance to empowerment,

Interest versus Commitment

Zaujem vs zodpovednost

“Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.” —Peter Drucker

when things get difficult, we find reasons why we can’t keep our promises and we shift our focus to other activities.

Here are the four keys to successful commitments: 1. Strong desire:

Silna tuzba

2. Keystone actions:

Klucove zakladne akcie

3. Count the costs: Commitments require sacrifice.

4. Act on commitments, not feelings:

Learning to do the things you need to do, regardless of how you feel, is a core discipline for success.

Naucit sa urobit vEci ktore je potrebne urobit napriek Tomu ako sa citim

Greatness in the Moment

Velkost

In this hurried new world, multitasking has become a highly valued skill.

Multitaskibg je zly . Strach fomo ze nieco ujde

In our efforts to not miss anything, we unwittingly miss everything. Our attention is spread over various subjects and conversations,

Most people are running so fast, they miss life.

You are most effective when you are mentally where you are physically—when you are present in the moment. Athletes call it “playing in the zone.”

Performing in the Moment

Let’s stick with the Olympic athlete as an example. The athlete becomes great not when she breaks a world record and wins a medal. That’s when the world recognizes her, but in reality the event is just the evidence of her greatness. The athlete achieved greatness months, perhaps years, earlier when she decided to run the extra mile, swim the extra laps, or to perform just one jump more.

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.

Dolezite - vysledky nie su dosiahnutim skvelosti su len dokazom velkosti. Ta sa deje roky predtym.

What makes a champion is the discipline to do the extra things even when—especially when—you don’t feel like it.

Sampionom sa stavam. Ked sa mi nechce pocitovo a napriek tomu to spraviim

Intentional Imbalance

Umyselna Nevyvazenost

goal of life balance is to spend equal time and energy in the various areas of your life, but in reality, that is not practical and it would not necessarily create the life you desire.

Life balance is not about equal time in each area; life balance is more about intentional imbalance.

Life balance is achieved when you are purposeful about how and where you spend your time, energy, and effort.

“There’s no such thing as work-life balance. There are work-life choices, and you make them, and they have consequences.” —Jack Welch

Think about your health and fitness. What might be different if for the next 12 weeks you made a commitment to improve in this area?

In this scenario, you would identify a handful of tactics that you would execute on a daily and weekly basis over the next 12 weeks.

rather than building a tactical plan, you identify a keystone (or core) action and commit to completing it for the next 12 weeks.

weeks. It truly is incredible what you can accomplish in just 12 weeks when you commit to a specific action.

Urobit si 12 tyzdnovy fokus na neaku oblast a presne taktiky, najklucovejsie body a ciny

Putting It All Together

The Execution System The 12 Week Year is an execution system