Week 3 - The 4 Disciplines Of Execution

Hey!

Thank you for being on this journey of learning and discovery with me.

It feels like we're just getting started.

Blessings, 

-T

This Week’s Book

The 4 Disciplines of Execution: Achieving Your Wildly Important Goals, by Chris McChesney, Sean Covey, et al

The Book In One Sentence: There is a proven method for executing well on the things that are most important to you, and you can install it in systems as large as multinational corporations, and as individual as your personal life.

Last Week's Book:  Show Your Work! by Austin Kleon

Next Week: Atomic Habits by James Clear

Updates

Here is how I’ve been putting the first 3 books together so far:

1. I’m using Ultralearning as an inspiration for taking on a big project (i.e. learning to build an app in Flutter and Dart) and I’m mapping out the process for getting to my goal of an MVP by the end of Q1 this year. I’m focusing on my focus (beginning, continuing, appropriate intensity, etc), working directly on what I want to do, finding good feedback, and experimenting, amongst other things.

2. I’m leveraging the ideas from Show Your Work by sharing what I’m working on with these emails. It also has me thinking about other ways I could be capturing my processes throughout the various things I’m working on; even if I don’t release or even edit the material immediately, it creates the opportunity to do so in the future.

3. The framework from The 4 Disciplines of Execution is basically the container in which the learnings from the first two books are sitting. It has helped me: 

• Define my WIG (Wildly Important Goal) for this year 

• Set lag measures (the important metrics that measure progress on the WIG, but that you don’t have control over) 

• Set lead measures (the metrics you can control that directly impact the lag measures) 

• Create a scoreboard that I keep updated that tells me immediately how I’m doing (“am I winning?”) 

• Have a meeting with myself every week at the same time where I assess how I did in the last week, and commit to actions I’ll take in the next week that will directly impact the lead measures.

Even with just three books, I can feel myself being forced to grow in order to implement the wisdom I’m getting from them. It will be an exciting challenge to see if this integration pace can be maintained on a weekly basis.

Links

Video (~4 min) - Ukulele Progress - This is two weeks of practice: I was going to limit myself to 5 recorded takes to force myself to share something, then decided to just share the first take:

Podcast (~1:54:00)- The Science of Setting & Achieving Goals - Dr. Andrew Huberman presenting the neuroscience that excellently supports the advice from this week’s book:

Video (~9 min) - Let Your Relationships Become A Vehicle For Freedom - Excerpt from Ram Dass’ Being Free Together lecture about treating our relationships as a way of coming to freedom rather than to entrapment:

Video (~58 min) - How To Create An ENTIRE NFT Collection - How to create an NFT collection from scratch without previous coding experience:

Music - Lost In The Woods (Reimagined With Corey Harper) - Enjune - The lead singer, guitarist, and producer, Jake Goble, is an amazing artist and friend: