Getting Results the Agile Way: A Personal Results System for Work and Life

you complete your three key outcomes for the day, you can always bite off more. Whenever you ask yourself what’s the next best thing for you to do, your three outcomes should guide your answer.

Family, friends, relatives, etc.
Role model, grandparent, father, mother, sister, brother, etc.
Work
Teammates, peers, manager, partners, cross-team groups, key contacts, etc.
Manager, leader, mentor, etc.
Friends
Friends, community, groups, clubs, teams, special interest, online, etc.
Friend, neighbor, community leader, etc.
The idea in relationships is to invest based on what you want to accomplish. For example, be the father you want to be. Get the people on your side to make things easier at work or to sell your ideas. Be a great friend. Be a good role model. Be a great mentor.

How to improve your emotional intelligence? How to feel good? How to deal with life’s ups and downs?

You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action. —Tony Robbins

The following table is an example template:

Don’t worry about directly connecting the dots between your daily outcomes, weekly outcomes, and monthly outcomes. Instead, think of each as a different perspective and scope, and they complement each other. They will often align, but the most important thing is that your daily, weekly, and monthly outcomes serve you: helping you stay focused on your next best thing to do and achieve the results you need.

In Summary
Design your week to support you.
Use the Monday Vision, Daily Outcomes, Friday Reflection pattern to drive your week.
On Mondays, identity three compelling results for the week.
On Fridays, reflect on three things going well and three things to improve.
Baseline your schedule.
Set boundaries and limits.
Fix time for eating, sleeping, and working out.
Consolidate the things that make you weak.
Add strengths to your week.
Schedule free time to your week.

you’re in the habit of thinking everything through in your head, shift to thinking less and doing more. You’ll find that there are many things you can’t anticipate. Instead, of focusing on anticipating, focus on learning and responding. Take action, learn, and respond. This will help keep you out of analysis paralysis

Find ways to reduce friction. Friction can be anything from a sloppy desk to an over-complicated task you need to perform regularly. Friction adds up and can eventually provide enough resistance that you stop doing the activity entirely, often to your own detriment.

Consolidate similar tasks and do them in a batch. This helps you reduce task switching and improve your efficiency. If you have to keep task switching, changing focus, and hopping around, you’ll break your rhythm and you won’t get the benefit of batching.