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• Want to launch a new course, prod­uct, or busi­ness?  
• Want to write and self-pub­lish a book?
• Or maybe you want to run a marathon, improve your health, reduce stress, sleep bet­ter or lose some weight?
• Per­haps all you want to do is improve your rela­tion­ships or maybe you just want to be hap­py liv­ing your dream life. 
• What­ev­er you want to do, my answer is Yes, YOU can.  All goals share the same blue­print.  No mat­ter what you want to accom­plish, the steps to get you there are ALWAYS the same. 

Why 8‑Weeks?

• If we gave our­selves a year to lose 50 pounds, there’s a strong pos­si­bil­i­ty that we would find our­selves think­ing that we have plen­ty of time.  After all, Decem­ber in Jan­u­ary looks a long way off.  There’s no sense of urgency in Jan­u­ary, or March or even in July.  
• Time goes by, life hap­pens, we get dis­tract­ed, dis­cour­aged and even­tu­al­ly lose inter­est, not always, but often enough that most of us can point to a hand­ful of set­backs and fail­ures with dis­ap­point­ment and regret.  Decem­ber shows up and we feel like big chunky losers.

We need a bet­ter plan.

• We are going to play a game.  We are going to pre­tend that 8‑weeks is 12-months.  Don’t wor­ry, this does­n’t mean that you’ll age 6 years in a 12-month cal­en­dar year.  But you’re more than wel­come to cel­e­brate New Year’s Eve at the end of your 8‑Week Year!
• When it comes to set­ting goals, every week and every day counts.  Instead of 12 months, you only have 8 weeks.  Fall behind a day and it might affect your week­ly goal, fall behind a week and you’ll have a lot of catch­ing up to do because a week in an 8‑Week Year is a big deal.

Ever heard of the Com­pound Effect?

• When you do only one impor­tant task, each day, it does­n’t feel so over­whelm­ing.  You’re stretch­ing your­self, but you’re not notic­ing the effort because it’s sub­tle.  Have faith that some­thing won­der­ful is brew­ing.  
• You will approach the 8‑Week Year in a sus­tain­able pace.  Accord­ing to Jeff and J.J. Suther­land, authors of, Scrum, The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time, share that, “Work­ing long hours does­n’t get more done; it gets less done.  Work­ing too much results in fatigue, which leads to errors, which leads to hav­ing to fix the thing you just fin­ished.”
• The 8‑Week Year is sim­ple but not easy.  It requires that you throw out every­thing that you think you know about time man­age­ment and goal-set­ting and approach these prin­ci­ples with an open mind.

Pro­gram Overview

1. Yes, YOU can.  Decide right now that you have the pow­er to change the tra­jec­to­ry of your life.
2. Know what you want.  Review your burn­ing desire at the begin­ning of each day and right before you fall asleep.
3. Choose one goal to focus on per 8‑Week Year.  After 8 weeks, you’ll have anoth­er oppor­tu­ni­ty to select a dif­fer­ent goal from your buck­et list of goals.  Imag­ine accom­plish­ing 5–6 major goals every 12 months.  What would life be like for you?
4. Find at least one rea­son to be grate­ful for each day.
5. Use the jour­nal sec­tion of the Plan­ner to write your vision dai­ly for the next 8‑weeks.  We attract what we think!
6. Spend Week 2 | Mod­ule 2 plan­ning.  Don’t wor­ry, I’ll show you exact­ly how to do this.  “There’s noth­ing so use­less as doing effi­cient­ly that which should not be done at all.”  Peter Druck­er 
7. Trust the process.  Com­plete one crit­i­cal task each day.  Do not pick a task out of a hat.  Do not do the eas­i­est.  Do not do the hard­est.  DO THE MOST IMPORTANT.  This is why Week 2 is so impor­tant, per­haps the most impor­tant of all 8 mod­ules, even more impor­tant than Week 3 | Mod­ule 3, where we start putting ped­al to the met­al!
8. This is it, my friends.  This is real­ly all you need to do to reach your goal.  You don’t need to do a dozen things and you don’t need 12 months to do it, either.  You just need to know exact­ly what it is that you want, know what action to take, which you’ll know once you map out a plan, and then do one dai­ly, albeit IMPORTANT task.  The on-going theme is con­sis­ten­cy.

“Small, dai­ly, seem­ing­ly insignif­i­cant con­tri­bu­tions when done con­sis­tent­ly over time, lead to stun­ning results.”  Robin Shar­ma
 

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• I am a proud immi­grant.  I was born in Mex­i­co and came here at the ten­der age of sev­en.  I am the first in my fam­i­ly to grad­u­ate from col­lege and the only one with a mas­ter’s degree (MPA: Mas­ters in Pub­lic Admin­is­tra­tion).  I put myself through school all while work­ing full-time.  I still man­aged to some­how accrue stu­dent debt, how­ev­er.  Sigh…
• I’m cur­rent­ly pur­su­ing my sec­ond Mas­ter’s in Busi­ness Admin­is­tra­tion at Geor­gia Tech and have two semes­ters left—Go Jack­ets! This time, I’m bal­anc­ing my stud­ies with my 13.5‑year mar­riage, rais­ing my 6‑year-old son, and car­ing for my 8‑year-old dog, who is like anoth­er son to me. Addi­tion­al­ly, I’m man­ag­ing four busi­ness­es, one of which has investor back­ing.  
• I have done all kinds of work and believe that there’s hon­or in trans­for­ma­tion.  I have picked fruit, cleaned hous­es, cared for chil­dren as a nan­ny, ironed clothes for $5 an hour (I was about 12–13 years old).  
• I was a self-pro­claimed sous chef and assist­ed my mom with mak­ing and sell­ing bur­ri­tos at her first job work­ing as an oys­ter-open­er in a canary, to help make ends meet.  My mom taught me the mean­ing of hard, hon­est work, with­out intend­ing to.  Lead­ing by exam­ple is always the best way to lead.
• I, too worked in a canary while attend­ing high school, actu­al­ly before (5am or 6am, can’t remem­ber).  Since I spoke Eng­lish they put me at the front where I was to fill up the jars with frozen oys­ters (I could­n’t feel my fin­gers after about an hour) and then label them.  
• I have also been a project man­ag­er, entry-lev­el web devel­op­er, per­son­al assis­tant, exec­u­tive assis­tant, senior exec­u­tive assis­tant and Founder and CEO of my own busi­ness­es.  I spent a lot of time in the C‑Suite, watch­ing and learn­ing from the exec­u­tives I sup­port­ed in ven­ture cap­i­tal and the start­up world.  I picked a few good ones to emu­late and I read what they read, talked how they talked, walked how they walked, and did as they did.  I took notes.  I took lots of notes.

I believe we can learn from every sin­gle expe­ri­ence, includ­ing and spe­cial­ly in the work that we do.  I have tak­en par­ent­ing lessons from the high­ly edu­cat­ed and wealthy fam­i­lies I sup­port­ed.  I have tak­en ideas of a bet­ter life from the man­sions and mil­lion-dol­lar homes I cleaned and orga­nized.  I used the time to visu­al­ize and dream…but I did­n’t stay asleep.  Though I’m still on my way to my Moun­tain Top, I’ve already won.

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• I am the proud moth­er of two boys, one human and one adopt­ed dog­gie.  I am also the hap­py (ish) wife of a won­der­ful (ish) man named Ter­rance (hey, we have our moments!).  We’ve been mar­ried since 12.12.12.  Togeth­er we are tru­ly liv­ing our best life, rais­ing our fam­i­ly veg­an, kind, con­sid­er­ate, and com­pas­sion­ate, the non-lin­ear way.  It’s been a jour­ney and we’ve made a ton of mis­takes along the way.  We’ve pressed the “do over” but­ton more times than I’d like to admit, but we’re here now and going strong.  

“All change is hard at first, messy in the mid­dle, and gor­geous at the end.”  Robin Shar­ma

• As briefly men­tioned, I have a for­mal edu­ca­tion, a bach­e­lor’s and a mas­ter’s degree (with hon­ors) but I nev­er stop learn­ing.  I allo­cate thou­sands of dol­lars each year and invest hun­dreds of hours each month (yes, each month!) on read­ing, and acquir­ing knowl­edge in the areas of busi­ness and per­son­al devel­op­ment.  I live for cours­es, work­shops and any­thing I can do to reach the moun­tain top of my poten­tial pow­er.  
• I am always in Per­ma­nent Beta.  I invite you to check out my social media chan­nels and blog for inspir­ing and help­ful con­tent I only share with mem­bers of my com­mu­ni­ty.  I share my tips and EVERYTHING I learn with my crew, so be sure to sub­scribe as soon as you can.  Do it NOW, HURRY!

“A for­mal edu­ca­tion will make you a liv­ing; self-edu­ca­tion will make you a for­tune.” Jim Rohn