Welcome to Lesson 6 of The Purposeful Performer, and congrats on completing the Clarity Challenge (lessons 1-5).
Up to this point, we’ve been zooming out to look at the bigger picture—your performance last year, your career, your life, your ambitions. Now, it’s time to put these insights to practical use.
Today’s lesson is a dead-simple way to plan your best year ever by embracing our core principle: “Human first, professional second.”
A more purposeful way to plan the year ahead
The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.
STEPHEN COVEY
Today, we’ll explore how to intentionally design your year around the things that spark joy and create memories, and then work backwards to fill in the gaps for only the highly valuable work.
This will be a natural filter against the low-value activities and distractions that can creep in, erode your performance, and deliver mediocre results.
It's a double whammy: a happy human + a productive professional.
The exercise in today’s Mission will instantly upgrade your year and free you up to produce your best work ever.
Why does this matter?
99% of strategic sellers I first start coaching get annual planning wrong. They are "time blind" (something exacerbated for those with ADHD), which results in two unfortunate outcomes:
Missing or barely hitting their number, while...
Sacrificing the important events and people in their lives
To tackle the "time blindness" trap and enter the top 1%:
Build your personal calendar for the year first
Bring it to life with things that will create lasting memories
Use the open blocks on it to then fill in your professional work
When you prioritize “human first, professional second,” you're not giving up work for fun. Instead, you're designing your calendar purposefully to focus only on the most important tasks while also making time for what truly matters to you personally.
Below, I will walk you through how to do this in three simple steps, including a helpful tool and a guided plan (which you can unlock in the Mission). Heads up though—there are a few “must-haves” to ensure your annual calendar is complete.
Let’s dive in!
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