Monthly Book Share

The 12 Week Year

by Brian P. Moran & Michael Lennington

This month’s book share is The 12 Week Year: Get More Done In 12 Weeks Than Others Do in 12 Months, by Brian P. Moran & Michael Lennington.

I was introduced to The 12 Week Year about 5 years ago. It has become the execution system that I use to reach my goals ever since. I recite quotes from this book on a weekly basis. It is also one of the books that I read during the last quarter of each year to help me mentally prepare for the next calendar year.

Brian and Michael have a gift for helping people understand the urgency of this moment and that effective execution is what is needed to accomplish everything that we are capable of. If you are not accomplishing what you want in life, the 12 Week Year may be what you need.

I was introduced to this book at the right time in my life. I realized that the goals I had been working on for nearly 7 years were farther away from reach than they had ever been. More importantly, I didn’t know if I really wanted them anymore. My system was not working and I was in the perfect mental and emotional state to dive completely into something different. This is when I was introduced to The 12 Week Year. I became a student of this system and one by one, I started to accomplish my goals! Some of them were happening faster than I expected. Now I am living the life that I dreamed. This is why I am a believer in this book.

A full circle moment happened to me earlier this year when I was sharing some of the things I had accomplished during the quarter. The person I was speaking to said, “Wow, you're getting things done in this 1st quarter that would take most people all year to complete!” “That’s right! That’s the title claim of The 12 Week Year,” I responded. For someone who had no knowledge of this book to utter that I was achieving this book's claim, made me stop and reflect on how visually life changing this book had been for me.

To share further, some of the things that I accomplished in 3 years by implementing this execution system include:

• Purchasing my first rental property.

• Quitting my career as a public school teacher after 23 years of service.

• Paying off my vehicle in less than 1 year.

• Marrying the love of my life.

• Being a solopreneur and running the nonprofit that I founded, Teacher Care Now Foundation Inc. full-time.

The 12 Week Year is a structured approach that changes the way you think and approach the year. It helps you focus on the now and provides processes to follow to guide your execution. It emphasizes the importance of consistency and gives leeway for us mere mortals to forget about perfection and still reach our goals.

I am grateful to Brian and Michael for writing this book. My vision is clear. My future is bright and the only one who is stopping me from reaching my goals is me. This system is now a part of my life. Everyday I wake up excited about not what I am going to execute this year or month, but what I am executing right now, because, “Effective execution does not happen monthly, quarterly, or semi-annually, it happens daily, ultimately moment by moment.” — The 12 Week Year: Get More Done In 12 Weeks Than Others Do in 12 Months, by Brian P. Moran & Michael Lennington.

If you are interested in reading this book, send me a message. Maybe we can be accountability partners in discussing it.