Planning for the Year: 10 Evidence-Based Coaching Practices
Describe almost anything you are working through and IX Coach finds the practices whose real-world fit is closest. For Planning for the Year, these are the strongest matches in the current practice library.
Practices that may help
- Generate a stop-doing list, not just a to-do list for next year
What you stop doing next year is as important as what you start.
The Annual Review (Tim Ferriss Method) - Identify and schedule big rocks at the start of each week
On Monday morning (or Sunday evening), name three "big rocks" and block calendar time for each before anything else.
Big Rocks First - Review and update your conscious spending plan annually
Treat your plan as a living document that reflects who you are this year, not who you were.
Conscious Spending Plan, Made Practical - Plan from roles and goals, not from tasks
Before listing tasks, list your key roles this week and name one meaningful goal for each.
Big Rocks First - Separate the planning session from the execution day
Do your planning in a dedicated session, never on the day you intend to start.
The Planning Fallacy — Why Your Estimates Are Always Wrong - Run a quarterly life audit, not just an annual one
Review all four quadrants of your life every 90 days while the feedback loop is still tight enough to correct.
The Eisenhower Life Audit - The 12 Week Year, Made Practical
The 12 Week Year, from Brian Moran, replaces annual goals with a 12-week “year”: you set a small number of goals, then execute against a weekly plan with a hard deadline at week 12. It is a practitioner execution framework — not a research program — but it leans on real principles about deadlines, focus, and tracking leading behaviors. - Create an ideal week template
Design a blank-canvas week that shows where each type of activity should live, before any specific week's demands arrive.
Ideal Week Design - Chunk and schedule time for key results
Block specific chunks of time for the actions in your MAP and protect them as non-negotiable.
Tony Robbins’ Rapid Planning Method (RPM), Made Practical - Hold a weekly accountability review
Spend a short, fixed weekly session reviewing scores and planning the next week.
The 12 Week Year, Made Practical
Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?
- Every year I pile new goals on top of an already-overloaded life and wonder why none of them stick
- Another week just vanished and the few things I actually meant to do never happened
- I’m still running the money rules I set years ago
- My whole week is just a pile of work tasks, and the parts of me that matter
- I tend to figure out my plan the same morning I’m supposed to start, in a rush to just get going
Related concerns
- 12 Week Year Planning
The 12 Week Year, from Brian Moran, replaces annual goals with a 12-week “year”: you set a small number of goals, then execute against a weekly plan with a hard deadline at week 12. It is a practitioner execution framework — not a research program — but it leans on real principles about deadlines, focus, and tracking leading behaviors.
- End Of The Year Planning
What you stop doing next year is as important as what you start.
Generate a stop-doing list, not just a to-do list for next year
- 12 Week Year Weekly Plan
The 12 Week Year, from Brian Moran, replaces annual goals with a 12-week “year”: you set a small number of goals, then execute against a weekly plan with a hard deadline at week 12. It is a practitioner execution framework — not a research program — but it leans on real principles about deadlines, focus, and tracking leading behaviors.
- Weekly Planning Values
Before listing tasks, list your key roles this week and name one meaningful goal for each.
Plan from roles and goals, not from tasks
- Daily Planning Routine
The method only works consistently when the evening planning step is a fixed daily habit, not an occasional practice.
Make the evening list a non-negotiable daily ritual
- How To Plan Months Ahead
A two-page spread listing future months gives you a holding pen for anything that doesn’t belong in the current week.
Capture future commitments in a future log
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