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Welcome to your quarterly review! Remember that every quarter is a mere 1% within the next 25 years. Every quarter is a fresh start and allows to focus just on the few things that multiply your progress. It allows you to claim complete responsibility for your life, meaning “I own my time, so I can do whatever I want with it”.
Important
Goal of this review
- Recalibrate my long-term goals
- Reflect and notice the progress
- Reflect on what the main multiplier projects should be in the next 90 days and free them from the distraction of other competing thoughts.
- Maximize the current 1% —> you can achieve extraordinary progress during each 90-day period.
- Keeping in mind the 25-year framework allows to filter the ideas, activities and enterprises that won’t last 25 years and focus only on what is truly important.
Everything important gets your full attention. […] Without the 25-year structure, your brain tries to focus on an endless number of things without any organization of priority. Everything is scrambled together, everything continually competes for your attention, and everything is urgent.
There are no unrealistic goals, only unrealistic deadlines.
Every quarter is just 1% of the 25-year framework.
Every 90 days you get a fresh 1% to work with. […] Give full attention to the current 90-day period, and the next quarter will receive the benefit of that concentrated productivity and creativity.
More and more, I’m not interested in things that don’t last 25 years. I might be entertained by them, but I don’t invest in them.
Important
The gap and the gain
Avoid spending time in the gap, meaning comparing to what is missing to achieve your ideals, which will always make you feel like a failure. Instead spend your time in the gain by measuring what has been achieved by your progress, which always makes you feel like a success.
Many people feel anxiety about time because their brains are so full. they see everything they want to do as having to be done right now, all at once, and everything is competing with everything else. […] Having fewer things on your list slows time down.
Review of Last Quarter
Morale
Important
The goal is to feel proud about achievements.
What were my five best achievements from last quarter?
Momentum
Important
The goal is to feel more confident. There’s a sense that progress is speeding up.
What are the five areas of focus and progress making me the most confident right now?
Motivation
Important
Add an increasing sense of excitement about the future to your growing feelings of pride and confidence.
What new things are giving me the greatest sense of excitement going forward?
Multipliers
Important
All of your previous thinking in the moving future has set you up perfectly to zero in on just five projects over the next 90 days instead of the endless number of things that perfectionists are demanding of themselves during every three-month period of their lives.
If I could just focus on five things that would be multipliers during the next quarter, what would they be?
Who are the people and relationships that deserve investment and that add multiplication to my 25-year plan?
Additional Questions
Filtering important Things:
Since I’m focused and committed for 25 years, what ideas, projects, relationships , and activities in my present day life are going to grow and improve each and every quarter over those 25 years?
Filter out everything that doesn’t get bigger and more important over the next 25 years.
Changing your Game
Label all activities I do with the labels shown on the right. Then determine the three things you’re doing in each area of activity that use up most of my time and calculate what percentage of your time you’re spending in each area right now. With that information put together a game plan that eliminates your time spent doing A activities, significantly reduces your time doing B activities and increases your time doing C activities
- Fill the table below:
| Activity | Description |
|---|---|
| A | Irritating Activities |
| B | activities that are just okay. They are not very exciting |
| C | fascinating and motivating activities |
| A - irritating | B - just okay | C - fascinating and motivating |
|---|---|---|
My plan is:
Free, Focus and Buffer Days
Make sure that you plan enough days for the above activities.
Free days are for rejuvenation (40%) , Focus Days are for productivity (50%) and buffer days are for preparation (10%).
The largest cheque
What 20% customers (or top 5) generate 80% of my income? Make sure to improve the time and relationships spent with them to increase the income through those customers. They will notice and reward you with greater payments for greater value creation.
The 10x mind expander
Multiply your revenue by 10x and pretend that you have already achieved that breakthrough result. Then ask yourself what the 10x changes were that enabled you to grow your business in such an extraordinary way.. As you move your mind 10x into the future, you begin to see the logic of how you can pull this off. This trick makes the 10x seem very doable.
Concluding Thoughts
6 C’s - Rewards of growing intentionally
| Capability | Creativity | Credibility | Connections | Confidence | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Envision bigger results and achieve them quickly | Combine growing capabilities to create new opportunities | Reputation for creating value in the world | you feel connected to situations in the world where greatest growth and progress take place | daily confidence is increased by progress on each quarter | there is more money than you could have imagined. All of it have intentional uses and purposes that expand your future |