How To Achieve Better Results

The first thing that you need is to commit, ideally at the same time every day. But you need to box out time where the only thing you can do is sit there and do nothing or do that which you are planning to do in this program.

This means if you’re a beginner and you’re committing 15 minutes only, then that’s fine. But you want it, ideally, have it be the same 15-minute block per day.

Now remember: in any given 24-hour period, you have 96 opportunities to apply your 15-minute effort. This is empowering because even if life gets in the way and you’re unable to accomplish your 15-minute goal within the time box that you set, you still have the opportunity—95 more times within the next 24 hours to get it done before the deadline. 

You actually have two deadlines. 

1. You’ve got a one-week deadline for that which you wish to accomplish, the overarching item. 
2. And then you’ve got a 24-hour deadline to get your single 15-minute sprint in, or if you’re more advanced, however many 15min or 25min focused efforts you planned per day. 

Again, this isn’t about doing the least amount you can do; it’s about building consistency and willpower within ourselves to be more effective with our time.

This is where it’s important that, once you’ve time-boxed the space in your calendar, you have some sort of recording device to time yourself. It can be your smartwatch; it can be a phone.  You can use what I use: www.tomato-timer.com; Or you can use many apps. There are lots of options so pick the best for you.

This program is not to give you a planner. We’re not to show you how to schedule your day. We’re here to hold you accountable to get results. 

Too many people have habit apps and productivity planning tools they fill in and then don’t accomplish anything.

This program is all about 3 key things: 

So you will need to box out time to get things done each and every day. You will need some sort of timer tool. We have provided one in the course but you can use your phone or whatever is your preference. Next, we give ourselves a one-week period for each effort because it’s a good period of time in order to make meaningful & consistent progress with reasonable effort.

The goal is NOT killing ourselves trying to get a lot done in a single day, and that’s okay. This is about creating a faster pace you can maintain for the marathon of life.You can skip parts and try to condense this entire program into a 24-hour period if you really want. You can shorten or, if you wish to extend it, you can do less than a week, more than a week or even actually have many, many cycles within a one-week cycle.

For example, the BIG goal is to plan, share, do the work and analyze our results over a seven-day period. But remember also each and every day when you wake up to begin your day, you go through the same steps.. You plan the day, get ready to start and then go, go, go. Then, at the end of your day, you review how you did, how you could have done better. So now you’ve looped this entire process within itself. You did a 1-day sprint inside 7 days of sprinting. But don’t super geek out on this stuff just yet.For now, focus on setting daily appointments with yourself in your calendar to create boundaries and protect time for your focused sessions over our recommended one week. 

The next part is not just to give yourself one week to do it but actually to make sure you follow all of these individual steps: 

Skipping steps or rushing ahead might cause you to have to redo an effort because you kept making the same mistakes. It’s important you follow the four-step plan here because if you fail to execute any of the four steps to the full extent, if you don’t do it thoroughly, if you half-ass it, you may end up having to repeat your effort again, and what you might do in a week now will take you a month or a year to complete. 

That’s the benefit of this program. We’re keeping it tight, very, very tight, by limiting you to accomplish something within seven days. 

Many of us set New Year’s resolutions. For a lot of people, it might be at the end of the year when they actually start realizing whether they did or didn’t make progress on the goals they set 365 days previously. 

I’m here to help you do in seven days what some people take over 365 days to do. 

So look at your calendar, make sure you’ve boxed out time everyday for this. You’ve got a timer you can set to time your focused work efforts.You’ve got the four-step cycle that loops over and over each week. Plus we have the time frame of 1 week to start, build and wrap up a finite project. We do tight deadlines because, again, without deadlines, there’s no accountability. Everything just turns to mush. For this reason, we picked a seven-day program repeated 3x over 21 days.