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

there must be enough clarity about action to bring concepts down to earth. To have punch, actions should coordinate and build upon one another, focusing organizational energy.

Truly productive people know the final result they are after and maintain acute clarity on what they want. Armed with this awareness, they reverse-engineer this big goal into a series of small and actionable steps that they then put into a 1-2 page plan of execution.

going, how it intends to get there, and the specific benchmarks it will need to hit in order for the Strategy and Plan to work.

How you intend to take what you learned from your previous week and do better next week Your bigger-picture goals (in a short bullet-point list as a reminder of your “why” and “end” goals) Your proximal goals (things you’re immediately working toward over the next one to six months) Specific to-dos you must finish the following week (including plan