The 4 Disciplines of Execution Review and How To Apply It To Your Personal Life

Published: April 2, 2019, 8 p.m.

b"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuLnACEGVK0\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\nThe 4 Disciplines of Execution is a great leadership book to help businesses achieve goals but I actually found this extremely useful in my personal life. In this book review I discuss the key ideas in the book and how you can apply them to your life\\n\\n\\n\\nThe 4 Disciplines of Execution (on Amazon)\\n\\n\\n\\n0:00 - Introduction\\n1:25 - The 4 Key Concepts in the Book\\n2:19 - #1: Wildly Important Goals\\n3:10 - The Whirlwind in your life\\n3:54 - #2: Lead Measures (Things You Do)\\n6:02 - #3: Create an engaging scoreboard\\n8:29 - #4: Keep Accountable\\n9:10 - Summary of the 4 Disciplines of Execution\\n\\n\\n\\nTranscription:\\n\\n\\n\\nI recently read the book the four disciplines of execution which is ideally a business leadership book to help people who run businesses and run teams to get the company and the teams to implement strategies to achieve goals but I actually found this book extremely useful in my own life of my small one-man operation in terms of my business as well as applying to my own personal finances as well so in this episode I want to do a review of the four disciplines of execution talk about the key concepts in the book and more specifically talk about how you can apply them to your everyday life and your own personal goals this book was extremely valuable and came at the exact right time when I needed it in my business as you may know I have been in debt lately I'm currently paying that off and I'm working towards growing my passive income quite significantly ideally over the next couple of years but staying focused on that when I do work that doesn't have a payoff for 6 or 12 months is very important and this book really provided a framework for doing that a framework for staying on track and a framework for getting motivated so let's have a look at the key concepts in this book and then I'll suggest some ways that you may be able to apply them to your own life and your own personal finances in order to move towards financial freedom so the book really has just four key concepts so the four disciplines of execution and they are the first one is to create wildly important goals so just having one or two goals per year that you're focusing on not even per year just one or two goals then you're focusing on which ultimately have a deadline so I'll break all of these down in more detail but first I'll just summarize them so set one or two wildly important goals create lead measures so have things that you do that result in lag measures or that result in results that are in line with your goals the next thing is to have an engaging scoreboard to track your results and then lastly keep yourself accountable or have weekly meetings if you're running a team so there the four disciplines while the important goals lead measures engaging school board and keeping accountable so let's go through them in more detail the first section talks about wildly important goals so these are the most important goals in your life or in your business that you are focusing on these are the things that are going to move the dial that are going to change the business or the company or change your personal finances so for me for business it is about growing the level of my passive income in the business and so there's two different aspects of that so I have two different goals or wildly important goals that I want to achieve this year that go across two different online businesses that I have so they might do while the important goals in my personal life my wildly important goal is to pay off all my debt ideally by the end of 2019 so by the end of this year pay off all my debt so I've got my wildly important business goals and my wildly important personal goals the book talks about the thing called the whirlwind which is basically there's activities in your life and in your business that you need to do just to keep things operating so there's emails you need to respond to reports that need to go out things that you hav..."