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Prompt Yourself to New Levels of Amazing Personal Productivity

  • Artikkeli

The most powerful pattern in Agile Results is:
Monday Vision, Daily Wins, Friday Reflection

I introduce Agile Results in my best-selling book on time management Getting Results the Agile Way.  (For a quick overview, benefits, testimonials, and videos, check out the landing page for Getting Results the Agile Way.)

The Monday Vision, Daily Wins, Friday Reflection pattern a big deal.

Why?

Because it creates a simple approach for personal results in work and life.

You learn how to quickly flow value each day and each week.  Through Friday Reflection, you add a learning loop.   By setting simple targets, chunking things down, and delivering little chunks of value, you get better and better at driving results.

You’ll astound yourself, and you’ll awaken new levels of resourcefulness and productivity you didn’t even know you had.

How do you get started?

It’s real simple.

Add 3 Reminders to Your Calendar

One of the simplest ways to build your Agile Results habit is to add 3 reminders to your calendar:

  1. Add a reminder on Monday Morning.  Call it Monday Vision: "What are your 3 Wins for this week?"
  2. Add a reminder to each day.  Call it Daily Wins: "What are your 3 Wins for today?
  3. Add a reminder to Friday:  Call it Friday Reflection:  "What are 3 things going well? What are 3 things to improve?"

You can literally prompt yourself to better performance.

It’s so simple in fact that you have to wonder how could something so simple create such profound results.

In fact, if you’re not sure how significant this can be to your life, watch Alik on Getting Results the Agile Way (Video), and how it changed his life.

Keep in mind, there is a lot to Agile Results.

But you don’t need it all at once.

Start small and go from there.

Comments

  • Anonymous
    February 26, 2014
    What's the rationale behind keeping the Friday Reflection separate from the Monday Vision? I've been doing both as part of a single GTD-type Weekly Review process.

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    February 26, 2014
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  • Anonymous
    February 26, 2014
    Cool/groovy, but why 3? Why not 17, or 42?

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    February 26, 2014
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  • Anonymous
    February 26, 2014
    I'm confused what you mean as "Wins". Would these be goals? And what is the difference between a weekly Win and a daily Win? I assume a weekly win is a larger goal, made up of smaller daily Wins?

  • Anonymous
    February 26, 2014
    @ queenbee -- If you're just getting started, then "goal" is a good word to use. It's easy to think in terms of what goals do you want to achieve. I add "win" because it helps add the fun factor. It helps me think in terms of private victories. It helps make it a game. For precision, really it's about "outcomes" which is more precise than goals, but not everybody is familiar with thinking deeply about outcomes. An outcome, simply put, is the end result. And when you think about an outcome deeply, you bring it to live by thinking in terms of what would you see? What would you hear? What would it feel like? When somebody is just starting, I ask them to simply think in terms of 3 results, or 3 outcomes, or 3 things they want to achieve?   The most important concept to get is the idea of focusing on outcomes vs. activities (or tasks).   So "goals," "outcomes," "wins," "results," all work.  You just to have to figure out what works best for you, and suits your style.