Tactics – one-time, doable actions that produce the desired impacts of each part of a strategy. Once proven effective, they evolve into the practices that maintain those intentions over time.
Mastery Parts and Practices
To master anything, we must move through its complexity in a way that:
ONE: Increases our power—time, energy, creativity, and currency.
TWO: Produces the positive impacts we’re after and mitigates and or eliminates the negative impacts that we need to avoid.
THREE: Maintains those impacts as the environment changes.
To do that, we use a four-part performance formula I relied on as a SEAL sniper instructor to help students master one of the most demanding skill sets on the planet:
To identify is to know the nature and operations of a thing.
To identify is to know the nature and operations of a thing.
Assess — is to observe our current practices and determine whether they will or will not produce and maintain our desired impacts, both now and into the future.
Assess — is to observe our current practices and determine whether they will or will not produce and maintain our desired impacts, both now and into the future.
Prioritize by Power – is how we eliminate overwhelm and mental clutter while moving in a way that increases our time, energy, creativity, and currency as we get things done.
Prioritize by Power – is how we eliminate overwhelm and mental clutter while moving in a way that increases our time, energy, creativity, and currency as we get things done.
We do this by asking ourselves two questions before committing to any action plan.
FIRST: What is the one thing that, if handled, would positively impact all the other things?
SECOND: What is the one thing that would produce a meaningful return on our investment of time, energy, creativity, and currency?
Execute and Evolve – is the commitment to take action for the purpose of generating the information you need to stop, start, or modify those actions until they produce and sustain the desired impacts.
Execute and Evolve – is the commitment to take action for the purpose of generating the information you need to stop, start, or modify those actions until they produce and sustain the desired impacts.
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