Score your weekly execution

Rate the percentage of planned actions you completed each week, and aim high.

Why it works

A weekly execution score makes effort visible and accountable when the result is still invisible. Because lead behaviors precede outcomes, a consistently high execution score is the earliest reliable signal that the cycle is on track — it turns "did I do the work" into a number you cannot rationalize away.

How to do it

1. At week’s end, calculate the share of planned actions you actually completed.
2. Treat a high execution score as the goal in itself during the cycle.
3. Diagnose a low score: was the plan unrealistic, or did execution slip?

Evidence

Self-monitoring and progress feedback are reliably linked to better goal attainment; a weekly execution score operationalizes that into a single tracked number. The specific scoring practice is Moran’s framework, built on the monitoring principle. (observational)

A high execution score on the wrong actions still fails; the score measures consistency, not whether the plan was correct.

Sources

• Harkin et al. (2016), progress monitoring improves goal attainment (underlying principle)

Common mistake

Scoring execution but never acting on a low number, so the metric becomes a guilt ritual instead of a trigger to re-plan.