The 12 Week Year

The first step is to create a personal vision, a vision that clearly captures and articulates what you want in life. The personal vision should define the life you want to live in all areas, including spiritual, relationships, family, income, lifestyle, health, and community.

In Chapter 9 we gave you four keys to successful commitments; as a reminder they are:
1. Strong desire.
2. Keystone actions.
3. Count the costs.
4. Act on commitments, not feelings.
Now let’s put these four keys to use.

Everybody, sooner or later, sits down to a banquet of consequences.”
—Robert Louis Stevenson

There are three time horizons that you’ll want to focus your vision on:
1. Long-term aspirations
2. Mid-term goals, about three years into the future
3. 12 Weeks (covered in the next chapter)

“The greatest predictor of your future are your daily actions.”

“A vision without a plan is a pipe dream.”

“All my life I wanted to be somebody. Now I see I should have been more specific.”
—Lily Tomlin

“Behind every impossible achievement is a dreamer of impossible dreams.”
—Robert K. Greenleaf

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act, but a habit.”
—Aristotle

The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.”
—Abraham Lincoln