Monday Vision, Daily Outcomes, and

Friday Reflection

A Pattern for Daily and Weekly Results

J.D. Meier

Agenda

What is the Monday Vision, Daily Outcomes, and Friday Reflection Pattern Why Use the Monday Vision, Daily Outcomes, and Friday Reflection

Pattern How to use the Monday Vision, Daily Outcomes, and Friday Reflection

Pattern

What is Monday Vision, Daily Outcomes, and Friday Reflection?

It’s a simple pattern for helping you achieve results each week.

The Pattern: On Mondays you identify the 3 key results you want for the

week Each day you identify the 3 key results you want. On Fridays you identify 3 things going well, and 3 things to

improve.

Why Use Monday Vision, Daily Outcomes, and Friday Reflection?

Key Benefits Each week is a fresh start. It’s a way to make your week meaningful. It’s a way to help you prioritize and focus. It’s a way to help you improve your results. It combines positive psychology, project management, time management,

energy management, … etc. in a simple, but effective way.

It helps you create a rhythm of results. When you “fall off your horse”, you can easily get back on.

How To Use Monday Vision, Daily Outcomes and Friday Reflection

On Mondays … Identify 3 results you want for the week. This is your vision for the week. Ask yourself, “If this were Friday, what are 3 results I want to look back on?”

Each day … Identify 3 results you want for the day. This is your vision for the day. Ask yourself, “What are the 3 best results I want for today?”

On Fridays … Set aside time for personal reflection. This is your time for “lessons learned.” Ask yourself, “What are 3 things going well?” Ask yourself, “What are 3 things to improve?”

Monday Vision, Daily Outcomes, and Friday Reflection at a Glance

Monday Vision What are 3 results I want for the week?

Monday What are 3 results I want for today?

Tuesday What are 3 results I want for today?

Wednesday What are 3 results I want for today?

Thursday What are 3 results I want for today?

Friday What are 3 results I want for today?

Friday Reflection What are 3 things going well?What are 3 things to improve?

Key Take Aways Use Monday Vision, Daily Outcomes, and Friday Reflection to get

results each week.

Each week is a fresh start.

Monday is your chance to create a compelling vision for your week.

Each day is a fresh start and a new chance to make progress against your vision for the week.

Fridays are a chance to reflect on what’s going well and what you need to improve.

Call to Action

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About J.D. MeierJ.D. Meier … Principal Program Manager on the Microsoft patterns & practices team Focus - Software Development, Project Management, and Effectiveness Research, author, run teams, and ship stuff 10+ years deliberate practice in “best practices” 750+ software architecture and design reviews

As a hobby and passion, I study success across Microsoft up and down the chain.

Key Projects (Blue Books and Software)

Blue Books for Microsoft (Technical Books) Application Architecture Guide 2.0 Improving Web Services Security (The WCF Security Guide) Performance Testing Guidance for Web Applications Team Development with VSTS/TFS (The TFS Guide) patterns & practices Security Engineering Improving Web Application Security (Threats and Countermeasures) Improving .NET Application Performance and Scalability Building Secure ASP.NET Applications (The first Microsoft “Blue Book”)

Software / Tools Guidance Explorer (“ITunes for Knowledge”) Practices Checker (“Building Codes Inspector for Software Best Practices”)

Blogs J.D. Meier on MSDN (My Microsoft Blog): http://blogs.msdn.com/jmeier Sources of Insight (My Effectiveness Blog) - http://SourcesOfInsight.com

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