This might sound bizarre, but I think I’ve found a time machine.
Picture where you see yourself in fifteen years. What type of job are you doing? What are your personal goals? Well, what if you could get to that place you are envisioning in a quicker time? Would you be up for the challenge?
I read a book that has been highly recommended. I assumed everything I heard was just hype (as usual). But after reading it, I know for sure I’ve found my own personal time machine, and I’m hitting the green button.
Same Old
Each year, we make targets and heavily evaluate towards the end. We consider what we could do to make the following year even more successful personally, financially or even emotionally. Often, we wait until November to quickly achieve our new year’s resolution or meet our yearly business goals that we made months ago.
The 12 Week Year
Brian P. Moran and Michael Lennington, the authors of the book called The 12 Week Year, encourage this same vigour, passion and ability but challenge the reader to translate it into mini years that consist of 12 weeks. The authors discuss how this strategy enables the reader to become more intentional.
The authors share more information than just division. Brian P. Moran and Michael Lennington have been able to tap into the tools high-achieving athletes use and have been able to transfer them into skills that anyone could pick up.
Using these skills will propel anyone who is aiming to achieve their goals and help them get to their destination sooner than planned. To catapult the reader even further, the authors break down how to plan a 12-week year. Then they share how the reader could easily measure how well their plan has been executed.
Humanness
Many business and self-improvement books ignore or fail to address the same thing: the whole person.
The authors make it clear to the reader that they can use the 12-week year method for more than reaching business goals. In fact, they encourage it to be used for relationships, personal goals and more. This separates this book from the average books within its genre. It stops people from just moving forward in one area of life while staying frozen in time in every other area.
Achievement Olympics
As a creative, it’s so easy to be a part of the achievement Olympics by attempting to complete every creative project I have written down on my ideas list. I’m passionate about all of them, and it can become disheartening knowing how many projects are just sitting on the shelf, waiting to be completed.
This book taught me to focus on one project for 12 weeks and to break down the mini year into weekly activities. Reading the book has taught me that if I am passionate about doing a project, I need to plan it, let it go and focus on it during the right time of the year. The long-term vision is more important than my short-term feelings.
The 12-week method stops you from just being busy and just constantly working. It enables the reader to progress by applying tools like blocking time in simple yet effective ways, evaluate the wins, and learn from the losses.
The 12 Week Year is the time machine we all knew we needed. It’s filled with tips, realistic information, and theory that could help you fast forward in a way that many people will only dream. The authors’ awareness of humanness makes the content in the book digestible. The 12 Week Year is a book that can put your goals into motion even quicker than one would expect. The question is, will you let it?
Title: I Think I’ve Found a Time Machine
Author: Leonie Thomas
Date Published: 31.5.2023
Leonie Thomas 