“The true meaning of life is to give our life meaning.” — Tate T. Weber

Your Outcome: Review the basics of the Agile Results system and set the stage to take your life to the next level by exploring more of the Agile Results principles, patterns, and practices.

“Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.” — W. Clement Stone

Your Outcome: Create an environment that helps you thrive. You can be a fish out of water, or you can be in your element.

Welcome to day 29 of 30 Days of Getting Results, based on my book Getting Results the Agile Way. In day 28, you learned how to find your one thing to simplify your life, make meaning, and grow your lust for life.

“Purpose is what gives life a meaning.” — Charles H. Perkhurst

Your Outcome: Find your one thing. Whether you call it your passion, your purpose, your mission, your crusade, finding your “Why,” or simply what you want your life to be about … express it in words, as a motto, or tagline, or a simple one-liner. This will be your path and torch.

“Big dreams create the magic that stirs men’s souls to greatness.” — Bill McCartney

Your Outcome: Immerse yourself in something great. Take your life to the next level. Do something great that matters for you or someone in your life. Go above and beyond your daily call of duty.

“You don’t overcome challenges by making them smaller but by making yourself bigger.” —John C. Maxwell

Your Outcome: Solve your problems with skill. Become a skilled problem solver and learn a systematic way for solving your problems. Turn even your worst lemons into lemonade.

“Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.” — Parkinson’s Law

Your Outcome: Learn how to master time management and set effective time limits for things and then bite off what you can chew within that time limit. Your ability to use timeboxing and time budgets will help you manage your energy, free up your time, get more things done, and achieve work-life balance.

“Life is not about how fast you run, or how high you climb, but how well you bounce.” – Anonymous

Your Outcome: Bounce back with skill and roll with the punches. Learn to draw from multiple sources of strength and energy, including your mind, body, emotions, and spirit.

“Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.” — Henry David Thoreau

Your Outcome: Design a week that supports you in a sustainable way. Have more time for the things you want, spend less time in the things that you don’t want, and add more free time to your week.

“Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.” — Robert H. Schuller

Your Outcome: Design your day to support you for success. Learn how to structure your day to make the most of what you’ve got. Chunk up your day and avoid being overwhelmed.

“When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.” — Lao Tzu

Your Outcome: Make the most of your setbacks, failures, and lessons. Take the lessons you learn each week, carry the good forward, and use them to refine your approach. Let the rest go.

“There are no right answers to wrong questions.”–Ursula K. Le Guin

Your Outcome: Learn how to ask “cutting” questions to instantly start helping you improve your results. By asking key questions, you can cut through the fog or cut to the chase and figure out what really counts.

“Beauty is altogether in the eye of the beholder.?” — Lew Wallace

Your Outcome: Figure out who the things you do are really for. See how whether the work you do is actually “above the line” or “below the line” in terms of whether you’re getting ahead, or just treading water.

“Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.”
Scott Adams

Your Outcome: Add more Creative Hours to your week. Let your ideas and imagination come out to play, while you uncork your creative genius and flex your creative mind.

“The energy of the mind is the essence of life.” — Aristotle

Your Outcome: Add Power Hours to your week and use your best energy for your best results. By guarding your peak hours throughout the day, and applying them where you need it most, you dramatically improve your ability to achieve faster, better, and easier results.

“To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Your Outcome: Find the metaphors that empower your for your best results in work and life. Use inspiring metaphors to make meaning and enjoy the journey and your destination. This is your way to get “on your path” or “back on your horse” or “get up to bat” and make the most of what you’ve got.

“After a storm comes a calm.” — Matthew Henry

Your Outcome: Quiet the buzz in your mind. Achieve a “peaceful calm” state of mind that is relaxed, responsive, and ready.

“Things which matter most, should never be at the mercy of things which matter least.” – Goethe

Your Outcome: Make time for what’s important. Spend more time in what really matters in YOUR life, and spend less time in what does not. As one of my friend’s puts it, “time is all we have.”

“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” — Theodore Roosevelt

Your Outcome: Learn how to deal with a barrage of incoming action items and demands on your time.

“Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Your Outcome: Become a “productive artist.” Find whether you are a “starter” or a “finisher” and improve your success in everything you do.

Some people are natural “starters.” They live for the creative beginning of projects, but not the day-to-day execution or the detailed follow up and follow through. Some people are natural “finishers.” They like the day-to-day work and the routine execution. When “starters” and “finishers” pair up, everybody wins.

“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” — Leonardo da Vinci

Your Outcome: Simplify your day by getting rid of the hurdles and personal obstacle courses that are in your way throughout the day. Doing your daily chores or common tasks shouldn’t be a jungle gym. It should be a glide path.