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

by Brian P. Moran

The breakdown is not in knowing, but in applying. “You can’t build a reputation on what you’re going to do.” —Henry Ford

Without a compelling vision, you will discover there is no reason to go through the pain of change.

“Behind every impossible achievement is a dreamer of impossible dreams.” —Robert K. Greenleaf

Vision is the starting point of all high performance. You create things twice; first mentally, then physically.

“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” —Mary Oliver

Your current actions are creating your future. If you want to know what your future holds, look to your actions; they are the best predictor of your future. You want to predict your future health, look at your current eating and exercise habits. You want to predict the health of your marriage, look at your interactions with your spouse. You want to predict your career path and future income, look at the actions you take each business day. Your actions tell the story.

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You can’t change the past or act in the future. The current moment—the eternal right now—is all you have. Right now, you can affect what happens to you for the rest of your life. The future is created now, our dreams are achieved in the moment.

greatness is not achieved when the result is reached, but rather long before that, when an individual chooses to do the things that he knows he needs to do.

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.

“Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.” —Roger Ward Babson

The encouraging news is that, regardless of how you’ve performed in the past or how you are performing currently, you can be great, beginning today, simply by choosing to do the things you know you need to do. It really is no more complicated than that. In the end, you are either great in the moment or not at all.