The 12 Week Year

Compress yearly goals into twelve-week arcs you can feel - and map wiki projects to them.

Key Concept

• Twelve-week arcs compress goals into quarters you actually feel on the calendar.
• Level 1: Split big goals into twelve-week chunks so you can feel the deadline coming.
• Level 2: Twelve-week arcs put a real date on the calendar - quarters you can feel beat annual resolutions that die in February.
• Level 3: Compressed horizons work because weekly numbers against a twelve-week arc expose drift before the year is gone.
• Level 4: Map one wiki project to a twelve-week arc with weekly checkpoints - vague annual goals become a date you can miss.
• Level 5: Periodic Knowledge Review rhythm fits naturally at week twelve - compress goals into quarters you actually feel on the calendar.
• Map wiki projects to the arc with weekly numbers - vague annual resolutions die in February.
• Periodic Knowledge Review rhythm fits naturally at week twelve.

Examples

• Twelve-week sprint on one fitness goal beat a vague annual resolution - week ten finally bit.
• The team treated the quarter like a season - one scoreboard, weekly film, no fake annual plan.

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