Do what you fear. Consider what you are afraid of doing, and do that thing. Public speaking? Failure? Losing money? You will manage more by acting than by researching. Be aware of what's holding you back, then take positive action.

How to have a writer’s attitude of learning

What gives you flow?  It could be a cup of coffee early in the morning that makes you clear and focused.

Find a habit that shoots creativity through your veins

Routines can be great for going deep into a subject matter. But routines can also be dangerous. Routine can lead to ruts. Routine can become a comfort. Ask yourself these questions:<ul><li>Does your routine challenge you? </li><li>Does it result in growth and learning? </li></ul>If yes, your routine is great. If not, it might be time to mix it up.

Set a flexible, challenging routine

<ul><li>Volume. The more you write and put yourself out there, the better you'll become. When you're starting, there's nothing to lose.</li><li>Vulnerability. People are tired of rubbish. They crave a pure heart and violent passion.</li><li>Versatility. Do different types of writing - ghostwrite, bookwrite, copywrite, blog, interview, educate.</li></ul>

Three Vs of becoming a successful writer

If you’re exhausted when you come to the keyboard, write what you feel like writing. Write poetry or journal. Follow your passion.  You’ll warm up your engine with passion, and it will make it easier to write the thing you don’t want to write.

When writing is exhausting

Short-term recharge:<ul><li>Drink a glass of water. It’s a healthy practice with immediate results. </li><li>Exercise. Even if it’s just 25 pushups, it'll increase blood flow to the brain. </li><li>Chat with energy-giving and thoughtful people.</li><li>Drink another cup of coffee.</li></ul> Bigger-picture recharge: <ul><li>Write for yourself, not for clients or followers.</li><li>Go somewhere. Go camp, play sports, go to a new place.</li><li>Seek foundational truth for perspective.</li></ul>

How to recharge 

I stole this one from my friend Gret. Do what you fear. What are you afraid of doing? Do that thing. Public speaking? Losing sleep? Fear of man? Failure? Losing money? Losing “friends”? When I…

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Hey, you — yeah, you, the exhausted writer, this is for you

A RACI matrix, also called a RACI chart, is a type of responsibility assignment matrix (RAM) in project management. In practice, it’s a simple spreadsheet or table that lists all stakeholders on a project and their level involvement in each task, denoted with the letters R, A, C or I. Once these roles are defined, assignments can be attributed to the roles and work can begin.

RACI Matrix: Project Management Tool

The RACI matrix roles highlight the level at which a stakeholder or team member is involved with a particular task.<ol><li>Responsible: A manager or team member who is directly responsible for successfully completing a project task.</li><li>Accountable: The person with final authority over the successful completion of the specific task or deliverable.</li><li>Consulted: Someone with unique insights the team will consult.</li><li>Informed: A client or executive who isn’t directly involved, but you should keep up to speed.</li></ol>

What are the RACI Roles?

Pros:<ol><li>Maintain clear and open communication with all stakeholders.</li><li>Avoid overwhelming team members with tasks or unnecessary information.</li><li>Avoid “too many cooks” offering input on any task.</li><li>Help stakeholders prepare for a project’s future impact on their work.</li></ol>Cons:<ol><li>You might spend time unnecessarily creating the chart for simple projects.</li><li>Roles are rigid and might not fully illustrate a team member’s stake in a project.</li></ol>

Pros And Cons Of RACI

Use the RACI matrix for:<ul><li>Large-scale projects with clear-cut deliverables or workgroups</li><li>Organizations that have static roles and responsibilities</li><li>Projects with a wide variety of stakeholders for different aspects</li><li>Projects spanning multiple departments</li><li>Projects in highly regulated industries</li></ul>Don’t use the RACI matrix for:<ul><li>Small, single-department projects — it’s likely not necessary</li><li>Teams working with an Agile framework like Scrum</li></ul>

When To Use And Avoid

Projects require many people's involvement, but how do we avoid a situation where people are struggling against one another to do a task.

RACI defines each team member's role to manage cost and project duration. Learn how to incorporate RACI into your project now.

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RACI Matrix | Understanding Responsibility Assignment Matrix

Why do some people accomplish so much more than others?Georgetown professor Cal Newport studied the lives of great thinkers in history and found a common theme.Many of these men and women went to great lengths to isolate themselves from distractions while they worked.

Productivity Hacks 

The average knowledge worker spends 30 percent of their time on email......and another 30 percent on team communication and internet activities.

Distractions Never Stop 

Emails and chats aren't deep work, which requires a complex task and uninterrupted focus.Email and similar tasks are what Newport calls shallow work.Shallow work is work that's done in small pieces and doesn't require your full attention.

What Can You Consider As Work ?

Even though it can make you feel busier than ever it won't lead to great achievement.But if you can manage shallow work efficiently and avoid distractions you can prioritize long periods of complex thinking

When You Seem Busy But ..

When you leave room for long period of complex thinking with no distractions you are on to something. Deep work is the practice of focusing on a complex task over an uninterrupted period. <ul><li>Eliminating distractions and practicing deep work is a key to great achievement.</li><li>To focus on deep work, you need to effectively manage shallow work. Shallow work isn't complex and doesn't create value. </li></ul>

Achieve More In Less Time 

I recommend reading the book Deep Work by Cal Newport. It will increase your work productivity tremendously if you are able to practice lessons gained from the book.

One of the most valuable skills in our economy is becoming increasingly rare. If you master this skill, you'll achieve extraordinary results. Deep Work is an indispensable guide to anyone seeking focused success in a distracted world. 'Cal Newport is exceptional in the realm of self-help authors' New York Times 'Deep work' is the ability to focus without distraction on a cognitively demanding task. Coined by author and professor Cal Newport on his popular blog Study Hacks, deep work will make you better at what you do, let you achieve more in less time and provide the sense of true fulfilment that comes from the mastery of a skill. In short, deep work is like a superpower in our increasingly competitive economy. And yet most people, whether knowledge workers in noisy open-plan offices or creatives struggling to sharpen their vision, have lost the ability to go deep - spending their days instead in a frantic blur of email and social media, not even realising there's a better way. A mix of cultural criticism and actionable advice, DEEP WORK takes the reader on a journey through memorable stories -- from Carl Jung building a stone tower in the woods to focus his mind, to a social media pioneer buying a round-trip business class ticket to Tokyo to write a book free from distraction in the air -- and surprising suggestions, such as the claim that most serious professionals should quit social media and that you should practice being bored. Put simply: developing and cultivating a deep work practice is one of the best decisions you can make in an increasingly distracted world and this book will point the way.

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Master one of our economy’s most rare skills and achieve groundbreaking results with this “exciting” book (Daniel H. Pink) from an “exceptional” author (New York Times Book Review). Deep work is the ability to focus without distraction on a cognitively demanding task. It's a skill that allows you to quickly master complicated information and produce better results in less time. Deep Work will make you better at what you do and provide the sense of true fulfillment that comes from craftsmanship. In short, deep work is like a super power in our increasingly competitive twenty-first century economy. And yet, most people have lost the ability to go deep-spending their days instead in a frantic blur of e-mail and social media, not even realizing there's a better way. In Deep Work, author and professor Cal Newport flips the narrative on impact in a connected age. Instead of arguing distraction is bad, he instead celebrates the power of its opposite. Dividing this book into two parts, he first makes the case that in almost any profession, cultivating a deep work ethic will produce massive benefits. He then presents a rigorous training regimen, presented as a series of four "rules," for transforming your mind and habits to support this skill. 1. Work Deeply 2. Embrace Boredom 3. Quit Social Media 4. Drain the Shallows A mix of cultural criticism and actionable advice, Deep Work takes the reader on a journey through memorable stories-from Carl Jung building a stone tower in the woods to focus his mind, to a social media pioneer buying a round-trip business class ticket to Tokyo to write a book free from distraction in the air-and no-nonsense advice, such as the claim that most serious professionals should quit social media and that you should practice being bored. Deep Work is an indispensable guide to anyone seeking focused success in a distracted world. An Amazon Best Book of 2016 Pick in Business & Leadership Wall Street Journal Business Bestseller A Business Book of the Week at 800-CEO-READ

Cal Newport is Provost’s Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at Georgetown University, and the author of seven books. His ideas and writing are frequently featured in major publications and on TV and radio.From his website: "I write about the intersection of digital technology and culture. I’m particularly interested in our struggle to deploy these tools in ways that support instead of subvert the things we care about in both our personal and professional lives."

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Work expands in proportion to the amount of time allotted to it.<ul><li>This means that we must keep our own deadlines to a minimum and create some sense of urgency in order to complete our tasks as quickly as possible.</li><li>This also implies that most of the time, we are not procrastinating or being lazy; rather, the time allotted is simply too long for us to exert additional effort.</li><li>This explains why, due to the illusion of deadlines, we put things off only to cram them in on the due date.</li></ul>

Parkinson's Law

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Our chronotype determines whether we’re early birds or night owls. Our chronotype is how our body reacts to the time of day. There are typically three chronotypes: morning, day, and night.<ul><li>Morning people are the early birds. They are awake, operate at peak efficiency in the morning, but usually can’t stay up for the late news.</li><li>Day people sleep a little later and are most effective in the afternoon.</li><li>Night owls sleep as late as possible and are up well past nightfall, into the wee hours of the morning.</li></ul>

Night Owls vs. Early Birds

Pros: <ol><li>More productive, especially at night.</li><li>Overall, night owls tend to be wealthier. </li><li>Intelligence: A study by the LSE found that night owls were more intelligent than early risers, scoring higher on IQ tests.</li><li>More creative than early birds. </li></ol>Cons: <ol><li>Sleep deprivation</li><li>Health issues: More prone to health issues, such as diabetes, neurological and psychological disorders, and obesity.</li><li>Depression: On average, night owls are more prone to depression than early risers, along with other mood disorders, due to social jetlag.</li></ol>

Pros And Cons Of Being A Night Owls

Pros:<ol><li>Intelligence</li><li>Positive personality</li><li>Healthier</li><li>Life balance</li></ol>Cons:<ol><li>Energy crash: Whereas night owls get a second burst of energy in the later hours of the day, early birds tend to lose productivity and energy as the day goes on without getting a natural energy boost to keep them going. </li><li>Tend to have higher levels of stress hormones, which can result in health issues like migraines, anxiety, and depression.</li><li>Less socialization: Because early birds are wired to begin feeling tired earlier during the night, they may have a more difficult time in their social sphere. </li></ol>

Pros and Cons of Being an Early Bird

At the end of the day, it matters most that we get the right amount of sleep to maintain good health. Below is the tips on how to change our sleep pattern:<ol><li>Gradually change our bedtime</li><li>Let lighting help we realign our body’s clock</li><li>Develop a soothing night time routine</li><li>Track the positive impacts</li><li>Reward ourselves for reaching incremental targets</li><li>Keep an eye on our larger, more aspirational goals</li><li>Don’t let eating habits undermine our progress</li><li>Incorporate exercise into our day</li><li>Give it time</li><li>Enlist the experts</li></ol>

Become A Morning Person

There are two kinds of people in this world: people who delight in hearing birdsong first thing in the morning, and people who groan, and wish birds had a mute button.

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Toxic productivity is the outsized desire for productivity at all times and at the expense of our other priorities, from family life to hobbies.If we’re constantly working while rarely engaging in hobbies, which allow us the opportunity to destress, we can see how easily it is to eventually stop doing everything all together.<ul><li>Toxic productivity inevitably also leads us to feeling burnt out. By working ourselves to the point of exhaustion we eventually lose our will to do simple everyday things like texting someone back or cooking a meal. </li></ul>

Toxic Productivity

<ol><li>Inability to turn off: We feel unable to shut off work-related tasks to rest, enjoy hobbies, or spend time with friends and family.</li><li>Guilt about productivity: We feel guilty about not getting enough work done, even when we are completing a reasonable amount of work-related tasks. </li><li>Problems with health or personal relationships: We begin to experience issues with our health or personal relationships due to the above issues. Significant others may feel they are getting less of our time or attention than work. </li></ol>

Sign If We're Suffering From Toxic Productivity

<ol><li>Set realistic goals, adjust as needed</li><li>REST is not for the week, take breaks</li><li>Get some accountability</li><li>Define clearer work-life boundaries</li><li>Meditate to clear our head</li></ol>

How To Heal Toxic Productivity

Leave work feeling satisfied with what you’ve accomplished, with help of a few “productivity hacks”.

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“I almost ended up working and doing more than in my usual office days, because I felt so anxious about losing that sense of stability. I became really frantic and obsessive,” ~ Clare

Toxic productivity causes dedicated individuals to bite off more than they can chew in order to climb a career ladder that doesn't exist.

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We, don't know much time you spend on Social Media. But, we do know one thing for sure. That is! You are here and reading this, because you are addicted to Social Media or maybe you are reading this for general information.

Top 5 Hacks : That can get you out of Social Media Addiction

Today! We are here to help you get rid of Social Media Addiction for good. We will not talk about Social Media Addiction effects, let's leave them to the professional.

Here is what, we mean by Exist point - a month ago I accidentally post an old post ( as if it was a new post) from my media company Facebook/Page on my WhatsApp status. Later, I removed it. By the time I removed it closed to 5 people has already viewed it and felt really embarrassed. And since then, I have stopped posting on WhatsApp status. You too can use such incidents as an existing point like I did.

Number - 1: Exist Point

Tim Ferries author of a book called ' The 4-Hour Work Week ' shared (In his one of the YouTube Channel video) how deleting the Social Media Apps from his cell phone helped him get rid of Social Media addiction. As there will be no Social Media app on you are phone. So, what's there to check.

Number - 2: Deleting the Apps

Set suitable time for Social Media use maybe 10-11Am (Morning) or 12Pm-2pm (Afternoon).Yes, it will be hard to do, but over time you will get used to it.

Number - 3: Set time for use

You are Brain, will do anything to avoid pain. We can use it to our advantage. Relate too much use of Social Media use with pain. It could be physical pain or psychological pain. That, way you can avoid too much use of  Social Media use with pain.

Number - 4: Relating it to Pain

Those companies who are running Social Media are not fool. They spend billions of dollars every year just to make you hooked into their service. So, if you don't have a specific intention on why? You are using it. You are, more likely to get trapped badly. So, know what you are going to do and why? You want to do it.

Number - 5: Have an Intention 

In this article, one will learn to get out of social media addiction

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Procrastination is the voluntary delay of an intended action despite knowing such delay can cause harm in terms of task performance and even to one’s self-image.
Procrastination undermines the pursuit of our goals. Compared to their peers, people who procrastinate achieve less in life, report more negative feelings and have greater health problems.

Procrastination Defined

To prevent procrastination, start by categorizing the delays in your life. Identify the delays that are voluntary and that undermine your performance and well-being.Create a list of the things that you tend to procrastinate on. You may find that the tasks have something in common or elicit a common feeling.

How To Recognize and Prevent Procrastination

Procrastination affects our health because it causes stress and leads people to needlessly delay exercising, eating healthy, and getting enough sleep.Procrastination is a problem with not getting on with life itself. When we procrastinate on our goals, we are our own worst enemy. These are our goals, our tasks, and we are needlessly putting them off. Our goals are the things that make up a good portion of our lives.

The Cost Of Procrastination

<ul><li>Make a deep commitment to change by focusing on the costs of procrastination. Ask yourself: “Am I ready to live with them?”</li><li>Strengthen your goal intention by recognizing the benefits of acting now. Take the time to think about how your goals align with your long-term objectives and values.</li><li>Examine your intentions regularly as a way to reduce your tendency to procrastinate.</li></ul>

Your Goal Intention

<ul><li>Procrastination is a form of regulation failure. You fail to self-regulate because you want to feel good now at the expense of carrying out your long-term goals.</li><li>If you find that you are chronically procrastinating, it may well be that you are running away from negative feelings by putting off your tasks.</li><li>To address procrastination, you need to tackle short-term mood repair in favour of long-term goals.</li></ul>

Understanding and Taking Action

Emotional intelligence is the ability to effectively identify and utilize emotions to guide behaviour. If you are likely to procrastinate, use the if X then Y format of an intention. For example:IF I feel negative emotions when doing a task, THEN I will commit to finishing the task rather than abandoning it.

Emotional Intelligence

We tend to focus too much on our current situation without regard to how future events will make us feel.Focuslism: “The tendency to underestimate the extent to which events will influence our feelings and thoughts in the future”Presentism: “Putting too much emphasis on the present in the prediction of the future” When you plan for the future, you feel positive and get relieved that you don’t have to act in the now.

Just Not Feeling Like It!

To overcome presentism, you can forecast the future and try to imagine how you will feel at the time. Another strategy is to accept that you will be wrong.For Example:If you think you will feel better doing a task tomorrow, tell yourself that you are probably wrong and that it won’t be any better.You need to build momentum.

Overcoming Presentism

Following are the biases in your thinking that contribute to procrastination:<ul><li>You tend to discount future rewards in relation to short-term goals</li><li>Underestimate how long things will take and how much you can do</li><li>Prefer tomorrow over today</li><li>Self-handicap to protect your self-esteem</li><li>Think irrationally about the task at hand and your ability to accomplish the task</li><li>Manufacture happiness that is consistent with your behaviour.</li></ul>Identifying you have these biases is an important step in addressing the reasons why you procrastinate. Write down the typical excuses leading to needless delays.

Excuses and Self-Deception

<ul><li>Once you get started on a task, it is not often as bad as you think. Starting a task demonstrates progress towards your goals which makes a very big difference in your lives.</li><li>When you feel like putting off a task for tomorrow, get started on some aspect of the task.</li><li>If on the other hand, the task feels overwhelming, break it into subtasks.</li></ul>Getting started is just one piece of the puzzle when it comes to solving procrastination. You must also recognize the points at which you are likely to abandon your goals.

Well Begun is Half Done

Our willpower is a limited resource. If you are constantly fighting off the temptation to do one thing over another, you will likely give up. Ways to boost your willpower:<ul><li>Exercise your self-discipline by holding out longer than usual</li><li>Sleep and rest well</li><li>Take strategic naps during the day</li><li>Boost your positive emotion. Find people or events that make you feel good about yourself</li><li>Use implementation intentions to boost your willpower</li><li>Keep a piece of fruit to restore your glucose level</li><li>Be aware of the social situation and interactions and how they erode your willpower</li><li>Cultivate your motivation.</li></ul>

Willpower And Procrastination

<ul><li>The internet and its many addictive apps like Instagram, TikTok and Netflix are some of the top reasons why people procrastinate. </li><li>The way to avoid procrastination is to minimize distractions while we are working online.</li><li>Turn off all notifications that compel you to move towards procrastination using junk content that seems enticing.</li></ul>

Cyberslacking

This guide to eliminating procrastination offers everyone, from entrepreneurs to parents and students, tips and practical strategies to help break the cycle of self-destructive ideas and habits that prevent freedom and accomplishment. Original.

The revised edition of the self-published hit, offering powerful strategies to end procrastination.   Why do we sabotage our own best intentions? How can we eliminate procrastination from our lives for good? Based on current psychological research and supplemented with clear strategies for change, this concise guide will help readers finally break free from self-destructive ideas and habits, and move into freedom and accomplishment. With numerous practical tips for change, Solving the Procrastination Puzzle brings clarity and scientific studies—and a touch of humor!—to the quest for successfully achieving goals. This accessible guide is perfect for entrepreneurs, parents, students, and anyone who wants to get unstuck, stop delaying, and start living their most inspired life.

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Solving the Procrastination Puzzle

Solving the Procrastination Puzzle: A Concise Guide to Strategies for Change

Forget about the 12 month year and instead focus on the 12 Week Year. Why? Because you can get more done in 12 weeks than in 12 months with the right mindset, goals, and strategy.
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<li>To execute successfully, it is important to have a strong emotional connection to the outcome.</li>
<li>Without a compelling reason to choose otherwise, most people will take comfortable actions over uncomfortable ones.</li>
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Rethinking Time: Boost Your Performance In The Short Term

<ul><li>The important actions are usually uncomfortable ones. And the secret to living up to your potential is to value the important stuff.</li><li>Vision is the starting point of all high performance.</li><li>Barriers to physical performance exist in the mind.</li></ul>You must be clear on what it is you want to create. Most people focus primarily on their business or career, but business is just part of life, and it is actually your life vision that gives traction and relevance to your business

Creating Your Personal Vision

To tap into the incredible power of a personal vision, you need a future that is bigger than the present. Your business vision needs to be anchored on your personal vision.When things get hard the connection between your personal and business vision will help you to focus. When you think about a compelling vision, the neurons that fire in your brain are the same neurons that fire when you act on your vision. What that means is that you can literally train your brain to act on your vision just by thinking about it.

Envisioning Your New Future

Having an annual plan has the following benefits:<ul><li>It reduces mistakes</li><li>It saves time</li><li>It provides focus</li></ul>Having a 12-week plan has three additional and distinct differences from annual planning:<ol><li>Is more predictable than 12-month planning. The further you set your plan in the future, the less predictable it becomes</li><li>More focused. Annual plans have too many objectives and this can cause failure in execution</li><li>More structured. Most plans are never implemented because they don’t have a good structure</li></ol>

A 12-Week Plan

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. An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.

<ul><li>The actions that we take create our long-term results. While we plan for the future, we act on the day.</li><li>If you want to be truly effective, your daily activities must align with your long term vision, strategies, and tactics.</li><li>A weekly plan will translate your 12-week plan into daily and weekly action. Your weekly plan should cover your strategies and priorities.</li><li>Your long term and short term tasks and your commitments in the context of time.</li></ul>

One Week At A Time

<ul><li>Scorekeeping will provide you with a knowledge base that will guide decisions and lead to better performance and success.</li><li>Scorekeeping will let you know whether what you are doing is effective.</li><li>Measurement builds self-esteem and confidence because it documents progress and achievement.</li><li>The data simply focuses on achievements. It is not concerned with effort or intentions.</li></ul>

Measuring The Effort: Scorekeeping

In God we trust; all others must bring data.

Your supply of time is completely inelastic and perishable.When you are not purposeful about how you spend your time, you leave results to chance. Block out regular time each week to deal with strategically important tasks. Examples of performance time:<ol><li>Strategic blocks. A three-hour block of uninterrupted time that is scheduled into each week</li><li>Buffer blocks. Time set aside to deal with all the unplanned and low-value activities like email and voicemail</li><li>Break out blocks. Time for resting and reflection</li></ol>

Working With Intentionality

Accountability is accepting that you have a choice. That everything that you do in life is a choice. It is small thinking to see accountability as a have to rather than a choice.With such a mentality you will only produce a minimum of results. 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.

Accountability And Ownership

Commitments improve relationships, strengthen integrity, and build self-esteem. Commitment is a state of being bound emotionally and intellectually to a course of action.The ability to keep commitments is fundamental to effective execution. The difference between interest and commitment is that we only do the things we are interested in when we feel like it. But with commitment, we make no excuses.

Interest Vs Commitment

<ol><li>Strong desire. A clear and personally compelling reason will make you do things</li><li>Keystone actions. A few core activities account for a majority of your results</li><li>Count the costs. Counting the costs means being ready to commit time, resources, and so on</li><li>Act on commitments, not feelings. If you learn to do the things that you need to do despite your feelings, you will surely be successful</li></ol>

Keys To A Successful Commitment

To achieve life balance, you need to be purposeful in how you spend your time, energy, and effort.<ul><li>When our attention is spread over various subjects and conversations, we apply very little of ourselves to any individual activity. This can result in feelings of being burned out, exhausted, frustrated, and disconnected.</li><li>To make the most of your time, be present in the moment. Your thinking will be clear, and decisions will come easily.</li><li>You can neither change the past nor act in the future. All you have is the eternal, right now.</li></ul>

Be Here Now

The eight elements that are fundamental to high performance are:<ol><li>Vision</li><li>Planning</li><li>Process control</li><li>Measurement</li><li>Time use</li><li>Accountability</li><li>Commitment</li><li>Greatness in the moment</li></ol>Applying the 12 Week Year will be uncomfortable because change is uncomfortable.

The Execution System

<ol><li>Uninformed optimism. This is the first stage and the most exciting as we imagine all the benefits that we are going to get from the change.</li><li>Informed pessimism. This stage is characterized by a shift into negative emotions.</li><li>The valley of despair. Most people give up at this stage. They abandon the reason they wanted to change in the first place</li><li>Informed optimism. The likelihood of success at this stage is higher. The benefits of your actions start to bear fruit</li><li>Success and fulfilment. This is the stage where you complete the cycle and enjoy the full benefits of the change process.</li></ol>

Changing Behaviour: The Five Stages

When creating your vision, focus on three-time horizons:<ol><li>Long-term aspirations.</li><li>Mid-term goals about three years to the future.</li><li>12 weeks.</li></ol>Pitfalls when creating a vision:<ul><li>You don’t take the power of vision seriously.</li><li>The vision isn’t meaningful to you.</li><li>Your vision is too small.</li><li>You don’t connect your vision to your daily actions.</li></ul>

Creating Your Vision

The guide to shortening your execution cycle down from one year to twelve weeks Most organizations and individuals work in the context of annual goals and plans; a twelve-month execution cycle. Instead, The 12 Week Year avoids the pitfalls and low productivity of annualized thinking. This book redefines your "year" to be 12 weeks long. In 12 weeks, there just isn't enough time to get complacent, and urgency increases and intensifies. The 12 Week Year creates focus and clarity on what matters most and a sense of urgency to do it now. In the end more of the important stuff gets done and the impact on results is profound. Explains how to leverage the power of a 12 week year to drive improved results in any area of your life Offers a how-to book for both individuals and organizations seeking to improve their execution effectiveness Authors are leading experts on execution and implementation Turn your organization's idea of a year on its head, and speed your journey to success.

The guide to shortening your execution cycle down from one year to twelve weeks Most organizations and individuals work in the context of annual goals and plans; a twelve-month execution cycle. Instead, The 12 Week Year avoids the pitfalls and low productivity of annualized thinking. This book redefines your "year" to be 12 weeks long. In 12 weeks, there just isn't enough time to get complacent, and urgency increases and intensifies. The 12 Week Year creates focus and clarity on what matters most and a sense of urgency to do it now. In the end more of the important stuff gets done and the impact on results is profound. <ul> <li>Explains how to leverage the power of a 12 week year to drive improved results in any area of your life</li> <li>Offers a how-to book for both individuals and organizations seeking to improve their execution effectiveness</li> <li>Authors are leading experts on execution and implementation</li> </ul> Turn your organization's idea of a year on its head, and speed your journey to success.

Brian P. Moran

Michael Lennington

The 12 Week Year

“Without the knowledge your soul is sick.”

“It doesn’t matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.”

“All progress takes place outside of your comfort zone.”

“The expert in anything was once a beginner.”﻿

"Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try "

"Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts ,never fears and never regrets. "

"An investment in knowledge pays the best interest. "

"There is no elevator to success .You have to take the stairs. "

"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream. "

“If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.”

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