Coaching practices for The 12 Week Year with Friends
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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?
- I’m chasing a dozen things I want to change all at once, so my effort gets spread paper-thin and everything stalls half-finished
- Every January I set these big goals for the year and then coast for months because the finish line is so far off it isn’t real
- I never actually stop to look back at how the week went before barreling into the next, so the same drift quietly compounds week after week
- My calendar is packed with people and plans and yet I feel weirdly lonely in all of it
- I have a big goal but no idea what to actually do about it this week, so my days fill up with whatever lands in front of me and the goal just sits there, never broken down into anything I can pick up today.
Practices that may help
- 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. - Commit to only a few goals per cycle
Choose one to three goals for the 12 weeks so effort concentrates instead of scattering.
The 12 Week Year, Made Practical - Treat 12 weeks as a full year
Replace the distant annual deadline with a 12-week one that creates urgency now.
The 12 Week Year, 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 - Prioritize depth over breadth in social investment
Having five genuinely close friends is more protective of wellbeing than having fifty adequate ones.
Dunbar's Number - Drive it from a weekly plan
Translate each 12-week goal into the specific actions for this week.
The 12 Week Year, Made Practical - Schedule deliberate investment in your important friendships
Identify your most important friendships and make a concrete plan to reach out this week — not when conditions are easier.
The Regret of the Dying - Practicing "social fitness"
Tend your relationships like physical fitness — regularly, not only when something breaks.
The Good Life: Lessons from the Harvard Study - Become a regular somewhere
Returning to the same place on a predictable schedule is the simplest propinquity intervention available.
The Propinquity Effect (Leon Festinger) - Treating friendship as the most essential pleasure
Invest in the quality of a small number of close friendships as your primary wellbeing strategy.
Epicurean Philosophy: Practical Happiness
Related concerns
- 12 Week Year
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.
- 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.
- 12 Week Year Scoring
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.
- 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.
- Brian Moran 12 Week Year
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.
- Couple Friends Social Life
Spend time with people who affirm and are connected to both of you as a couple.
Invest in shared social networks
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