My Personal Curriculum and The 12 Week Year

It has been awhile since I’ve read The 12 Week Year , by Brian Moran, but to sum it up, he discusses completing goals in a 12 week period (aka: quarterly) to become more productive. Essentially, he talks about being able to get so many more goals completed in one year because you’re treating each quarter or 12 week period as if it was one year.

So obviously, some goals just wouldn’t fit within that time period. I’m thinking about savings goals (it might take more time than just 12 weeks to save for a vacation, or a big ticket item for example).

If we talk about goals in terms of maintenance goals (these are goals that are continuous and do not have an end date. Examples of this might be trying to create new habits around health — think working out, taking your vitamins, or daily meditation.

Sometimes it’s easier to think about the 12 week goal system in terms of end goals — things that have a finite finish line. (Although I think it’s completely fine to have a time period for mainenance goals as well). You simply continue the same goal into the next 12 week period.

For me, I relate to the 12 week year in that my 90 Day Cultivate What Matters Goal Planner is created to use in a period of 90 days. (Aproxximately 12 weeks). Most of the goals that I’ve detailed in my goal planner are maintenance…