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

Happy Saturday! I had a reasonably good day yesterday, although I've had a long week. Tomorrow is Mother's Day, a day I both dread and look forward to in about equal measures. The kids and the husband have been conspiring, I have figured out what I want them to feed me all day, and I have several good shows lined up to binge watch. Mother's Day is rough--I had a terrible relationship with my mom, but she's been gone for almost 20 years and I still miss her constantly. And there's missing babies and loss and just. It's a hard day.

Today, though my mind is clearly elsewhere, I have a proposal and optin to work on. Also a nap.

BQ: I've been using quarterly planning for years, long before I found this place. I really like the 12 Week Year by Brian Moran for helping create your system. There's real magic in this kind of planning, because you can set realistic goals that also stretch you. And I must say, I have come to really value break weeks. I am already looking ahead to the end of this sprint, and the ways in which I'm going to rest and rejuvenate.

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|Round 29 Daily Habits|M|T|W|R|F|S|U|
|:-|:-|:-|:-|:-|:-|:-|:-|
|Daily thread|✅|✅|✅|✅|✅|✅||
|Walk (3x a week)|||||✅|||
|Yoga (2x a week)|✅|||||||
|PR contacts (5x a week)|✅✅|||✅||||
|Write 2000 words|1134|❌||❌|❌|||
|Read 30 min|✅|✅|✅|✅|✅|||
|Meal prep|✅||✅|||||
|Quality time w/ Kid 1|✅|❌|❌|❌|❌|||
|Quality time w/ Kid 2|❌|✅|✅|✅|✅|||
|Quality time w/ Kid 3|✅|✅|✅|✅|✅|||

Weekly goals:

• 5/11 Wireframing due!
  
• Find childcare for ICAN conference
  
• Get important docs
  
• Add site licenses to Thrive
  
• Work on sales page
  
• Speaker onesheet
  
• Paper sort
  
• Hole punch history textbook
  
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  Today:
  
  
• Mop floors
  
• Computer upgrade
  
• Decide on swag bag
  
• Work on course design
  
• Review call recordings
  
• Work on proposal
  
• Landing page
  
• Getting Started sequence
  
• Nap
  
• Shower

100% go. And no this is not a gamble. Living how you are living now is a gamble.

You said school does not start until September. You should move out there now. Take a few days to scout for places to stay and look for jobs that will not interfere when school starts.

Check in with local churches, YMCA, Salvation Army. They have resources to help you find a living space.

Once everything is set up, start working the job you found. This way by the time school starts, you'll have steady income and less stress for money related issues such as when and where will my next meal come from.

Also, how strong is your sales skills? I know several people that can find stuff cheap and sell at a profit. Not their main job, but make a couple of thousand a month doing it. And they don't put a lot of time in to it. Easiest one is to find older cars that people are selling for $500 for quick sale. Stick with early 90s muscle cars. They can easily be turned for $1000 to $2000. Just make sure they run. (Also bear in mind my buddy does not sign the title as buyer. Open title purchases, we'll if caught can lead to a ticket, but that's up to you. Titling a car just to sell it can be pricey. Heck even my dad has done this. He helped some one move from the south to Montana. Instead of renting a car to get back, he bought a car for $600. Drove it home and sold it for $900.

One last thing. Don't think about camping or staying in your car. First month or 2 this may be fine. December and January can be brutally cold for long stretches at a time. You'll be miserable, which will make going to school and working very difficult if your living conditions make you depressed.

Good luck and remember one thing. Computers are stupid. They can only count to 1.

Edit: Also I recommend getting the book The 12 week year. I understand you can get the E-version free from amazon. Read it and do what it says. It's not a gimmick. It is how to make and achieve your goals. It teaches you how to set up and achieve your goals. I don't know anyone who is successful that does not come up with a goal and then plans out how to achieve the goal. https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1118509234/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1469194601&sr=8-1&pi=SY200_QL40&keywords=the+12+week+year&dpPl=1&dpID=51hvFjxxw3L&ref=plSrch

Yes, this might work.

My solution to this is having a habit tracker in my Bullet Journal. I do not do monthly overviews, I do weekly. I break down my future in to 12-week increments, inspired by this: https://www.amazon.com/12-Week-Year-Others-Months/dp/1118509234 (they have a site but no, that seems like corporate management garbage).

Anyways, your horizon for planning is probably shorter than "normies". So why plan six months ahead? I plan 6 weeks. And by plan I just mean I write shit down.

Then for every week I do an overview. What's happening? I've got kids, there are ice skates to pack, activities. Me and the SO have started going to the gym, so which day is that? Just put it down.

And then I have a habit tracker for the week. It is a list and there are squares for all days. So, one habit is meditation. I also note when I am most likely to do it (on the train to work).

For my meds, I have square. And I have noted "at the office". So I open my BuJo everyday at work and check what I didn't do yesterday and decide if I want to migrate etc. I see this thing. Meds. I take the meds and cross it off. Did it 30 minutes ago, working from home, almost forgot, but I always open that god damned lifesaver of a book.

After the week passes, I check my habits. Didn't do them? Why? Do I really want to do them or was something in the way of getting them done? For meditation it can be "forgot headphones", for other things like "read every night" it's just not happening - so I skip that habit. I could not attack reading as a habit, but stretching and meditation and excercise and turning the lights of at 22 are things that I can do this way.

Also, I note morning mood. :-) for a good feeling, :-| for so-so and :-( for shitty.

They correlate 1:1 to wether or not I turned the lights of at 22:00 the night before.

Some people manage the fire of the day ...i dont know if thats sustainable in long term.

https://www.amazon.com/12-Week-Year-Others-Months/dp/1118509234

This book was given to me by phd mentor (cuz to him i was useless at the time). I prioritize work kind of by FIFO but i typically start the day by writing my top 3 priorities out and work to getting those done.

Also if you are managing/leading projects delegating your tasks to someone is a great thing.

Also ive used visual kanbans and personal kanbans on a few things to help track where things are...its been very handy and its visual (you can create work in progress for each major step and color code tasks).

http://personalkanban.com/pk/