Planning My 12 Week Year

Hey friends.  As you may (or may not) know, I (try my best to) follow the 12 Week Year planning system.  I’ve talked about it before, but essentially, you work on goals in chunks of 12 weeks and then re-evaluate in the 13th week and start again.  The idea is that instead of waiting for that November/December push when you realize you’re not close to your yearly goals, you will keep pushing during the full 12 weeks with those goals in sight. This way you can course-correct sooner rather than later. I will go into more detail on how I do this in another post, but the focus here is that since I start the New Year on January 1 with a fresh 12 WY cycle, I am now in the planning week before I start my new 12 Week Year on April 1st.

Yes, April 1st.  A new 12 Week Year. The first day of a new month.  AND a Monday. This really cannot line up more perfectly for this planning-crazy-girl.  Eek.

So of course, my planning mode is in full force.  I’ve talked in an earlier post about how I have been way behind in all my goals that I set for the New Year, and how working evenings and weekends on a huge work project along with kids’ sports and activities really just took all I had to give.  I was able to still do my Miracle Mornings and my workouts, but everything else fell apart.

As we head into April, May and June, I’m hoping to be more realistic with my goals for this 12 Week Year.  The new year had me way too gung-ho and excited and I really overestimated how much I could accomplish.  I knew I had a huge work deadline, I knew three out of our four weeknights would be consumed by kid sports and activities, but I didn’t consider any of this when I committed to way too many goals.

For this round, I’ve decided to focus on some large goals, but really reduce the number of milestones and tactics I’m going to use to reach them. For example, I have three personal projects I’m developing (aka apps and websites) that I want to move forward with during this 12WY now that I shouldn’t be working so much.  Instead of trying to get way ahead on all of them, I’m going to focus on smaller goals for each of them.

Another big change for me this round is that I will no longer be trying to following the Clean Mama plan for keeping my house in order. Her plan just did not work for this working mom, and that discouraged me.  Instead, I’m going back to my trusty FlyLady plan with some adjustments made for our new home.  Using this plan I hope to completely declutter my home and make it shine. Be on the lookout for my post coming soon on my custom plan!

As far as my Miracle Morning, it really needs a refresh.  I will be re-reading Hal Elrod’s book during the next few days and planning how I can improve my SAVERS (Silence, Affirmations, Visualization, Exercise, Reading and Scribing/Writing) in the morning.

Of course, I will continue to workout every morning as it is my mom time!  My current round of 80 Day Obsession (3rd for me!) is ending tomorrow, and my plan is to do A Little More Obsessed (another workout program meant to follow 80DO) next week and then back to my 4th round of 80DO as we head into summer.

Again, I am really trying to be intentional with my time and my efforts and my expectations.  Both of my kids are starting to ramp up spring sports, and I can already see our weeknights filling up by May, so I’m going to be using Sundays to really plan out my weeks and get what I need done when I can fit it in. Hopefully in 13 more weeks, I will have good news to report.

Thanks for reading!

Call to Action: How do you make sure to not over-commit with your goal planning?