The Goal-Setting Coach on Why You Don’t Follow Through—and How to Change It

Now let's move on to The weekly operating system.

Now, if somebody has a job, they have kids and chaos, what's your weekly operating system for making progress for them?

The weekly operating system, I would say when I'm working with somebody, I want there to be four time blocks that they're putting into their week.

Their first is gonna be their high-level project.

So maybe this is their money-making activities.

And how I normally clarify those is it's gotta be connected to their most impactful goal i can't remember if we got in touch into that in our last one but they would designate a 90-day goal that that is their most impactful goal and we can talk about how they clarify what that is but we're going to block those off in their calendar first uh and then after that the other four time blocks which i would highly recommend for everybody entrepreneur or if you're working a job one is what i call junk drawer related activities where i block off uh these junk drawer time blocks and during those i get all my little things done because if they don't have somewhere in your calendar to get those little things done they will overflow your entire calendar so just to give somebody the context for for this for me typically this is 40 to 60 minutes right after lunch i have a junk drawer time block where i can clear the deck of the little things and then get back to high payoff projects So that way, if it's early in the morning and you send me a text and say, hey, Jason, I need a screenshot or a headshot for the episode.

If it's in the morning and I see that text come over, I would either not respond or if I would respond, I'd tell you, hey, look, I'll get it to you in a couple hours after lunch.

And most time, if I give somebody that expectation, they're not mad.

Right.

You just create the expectation.

But now I don't get distracted from my high payoff activity.

I can keep going in the morning.

After lunch, I clear the deck of those little things and I get back into high payoff activities in the afternoon.

Where the discipline is going to come in is limiting how many activities you put in each of those junk drawer time blocks.

Like for me, if I put more than four in there, they're not all getting done.

So those are like quick activities.

Thoughts on those or want me to keep going through these? No,

I absolutely like the junk drawer activities.

And you're absolutely right.

They might just take over your entire day if you just keep focusing on those tiny things like, oh, where does this belong? Oh, it just goes over here.

And then you're just going all over the house trying to get things away.

So before we keep going, so you got the junk drawer activities assigned to a specific time of the day.

What's the one habit that makes the biggest difference in consistency for people that have already done the things that you're saying, but now they're like, okay, how do I actually continue to be accountable to myself and continue to get those outcomes?

Accountable to follow through on those plans.

Yeah.