Empowering Emerging Leaders to get your most important things done with Navy-Honed Processes. Retired U.S. Navy Captain and Leadership Coach.
TORPEDO Your Goals with Aim, Action, Adjust, Achieve!
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Hi Reader, BLUF: Use this simple process to get results! Aim, Action, Adjust, Achieve. There are a metric butt-ton of tools and processes you could use to get things done and get results. You must find the tool that works for you. I’ve found in my four decades of helping others get results the most straightforward way is one that I equate to my submarine days on USS MEMPHIS (SSN 691) and USS ALBANY (SSN 753) when we were shooting a torpedo. Shooting a torpedo is the same process you can use to accomplish goals, projects, or tasks. All you have to do is aim, action, adjust, and achieve. You’ve probably seen one of those old-time submarine movies where the crew dramatically prepares to shoot a torpedo at an enemy vessel. They get the submarine into a position to aim the torpedo, then take action to fire the torpedo, making adjustments to the coordinates along the way. Finally, success—they achieve a direct hit! I’ve used the Aim Action Adjust Achieve (AAAA) method many times to get successful results. It’s simple, and you can use it anytime you are trying to create results in your business or personal life, and it doesn’t take rocket science or a grandiose plan. It’s a simple way for you to take a step, right now, towards that one most important result you are trying to achieve. OK Captain Obvious, how do you use the AAAA process? Aim — see in your mind the end result, think it, create an image, feel it, write it down! Action - what’s one action you can take right now to accomplish this end result? Take that action now. Now take another and another. Spend 5-minutes on it right now after you finish reading this email. Adjust - keep taking actions, big or small, adjusting along the way. Everyone can do this; it’s part of your human instinct to drive and adjust towards your aim - just like a torpedo! Achieve - you get successful results! So the next time you work on that important goal, task, or problem, just pretend like you are shooting a torpedo from a submarine and use the Aim, Action, Adjust, Achieve process to help you score a direct hit and achieve that successful result. You’ve gotten successful results before, and you can do it again! Michael To Getting It Done Leadership
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To Getting It Done Leadership
Empowering Emerging Leaders to get your most important things done with Navy-Honed Processes. Retired U.S. Navy Captain and Leadership Coach.
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