SETS & REPS!
SETS & REPS! DISCIPLINE, TRAINING, AND HABITS
Sets & Reps are the continuous actions and efforts required to achieve your goals for development. Set goals (desired future state) and begin doing the proper Sets & Reps with the correct effort. If you want to improve and grow, you will have to exercise those weak areas often, and consistently. Create SMART Goals and instill effective habits to achieve your goals.
There is no substitute or shortcut to success. It requires committed and focused effort, time, and self-discipline to execute the Sets & Reps and achieve the goal.
Instill discipline and proper habits in yourself and your team to automate necessary behaviors and actions. You will need an autopilot function when motivation and purpose temporarily abandon you. You will be leading or following others through similar struggles, so Set the Example.
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SEMPER FI - SEMPER GUMBY
SEMPER GUMBY: ALWAYS IMPROVISING
Semper Gumby! = Always improvising, adapting and overcoming. Never quit, never surrender.
Improvising is the ability to take initiative and make something work or meet a need, spontaneously, from whatever is immediately available, and without preparation or planning.
Adapting is the ability to accept and properly adjust to new conditions, situations, direction, information, methods, and environments, quickly and effectively.
Overcoming is providing the persistent effort and endurance necessary to gain opportunities or seize control over problems, despite adversity, resolving them swiftly and decisively.
Leadership is situational and requires the ability to be flexible, comfortable in uncomfortable situations, and optimistically relentless in the pursuit of achieving the best outcomes.
be a HONEY BADGEr
Take initiative and stay properly aggressive on opportunities & problems.
The US Marine Corps develops another very useful trait and skillset, INITIATIVE and enthusiastic urgency. Marines are the human equivalent of Honey badgers, and we were trained to run towards the sounds of chaos and disorder for honor, glory, and fun times.
Honey badgers are notoriously indestructible, fierce, and fearless critters. They are known to be resilient to venomous snake bites, larger animal attacks, and can overcome, and eat, about anything that gets between the Honey badger and its objective.
pdca: THE honey badger
Plan, Do, Check, Act
PDCA is a repeating cycle of procedures used for conducting experiments under direct observation for problem solving and improving processes and products in business. It’s also an effective method for planning and achieving any goal in life.
STEP 1. PLAN
Define a hypothesis (scientific wild ass guess) and the methods to test and measure that prediction. Describe what you plan to do and what you expect or predict will happen as the result of the action. This stage is critical for “defining” all the methods and actions required to DO the next step effectively and how you will measure the outcomes.
PLANNING: Defining, measuring, and analyzing are essential elements and reinforce the standard that most (70%+) of the effort in any project should be spent in the planning (learning, understanding, and defining) stage. This ensures the objectives and methods are clear and understood by everyone implementing and supporting the continuous improvement or new process effort.
STEP 2. DO
Test (or try out) the hypothesis through the planned experiment on a small scale or in a sample. Observe and understand what actually happens during the testing process.
STEP 3. CHECK
Learn, study, inspect, measure, and verify the outcomes. Compare what “actually” happened to what was “expected” to happen and learn how and why. Nothing will improve unless it is consistently observed and inspected to the standard.
STEP 4. ACT
Improvise, adapt, and overcome. Determine the next steps from what you have learned in the experiment. Standardize what works or begin the PDCA cycle again with a new or modified hypothesis to improve the outcomes of the process or product.
Semper Gumby and Sets & Reps! Discipline, training, and habits. Become a Honey Badger.
DAILY SMART P.I.L.L.S.
Plan your story, then act out your story
P.I.L.L.S. is the acronym for Progressively, Improving, with Little, Leveraging, Sprints.
SMART Goals are the PLAN.
P.I.L.L.S are the daily (DO, CHECK, & ACT) of the PLAN in the PDCA cycle for achieving goals.
They are your daily, AND scheduled, little sprints forward with progressively improving actions that have big leverage on getting you closer to your SMART Goals.
(NOTE) LITTLE means that the outcome of the task must be solvable and immediately testable. Also meaning that there is a measurable result or outcome required from the sprint task.
(fun fact) SMART P.I.L.L.S. are fun and great to share with everyone. Breaking larger problems and tasks into independent sub-tasks with their own deliverables makes delegating tasks easier on everyone.
SETS & REPS! Discipline, Training, and Habits. daily
do & check
smart plans & actions
f(x) = y
The meaning of f(x) = y
The meaning of f(x) = y is “What you are solving to achieve y”
Defining the correct process, effort and inputs will provide great results for you, your teams, your suppliers and your customers. The relationships between f, x, and y are critical in good S.I.P.O.C. mapping.
The formula
'y' represents the desired outcome, result, or goal you want to achieve.
'x' represents the inputs, factors, variables, ingredients, or elements required to create the outcome.
'f( ) ' represents the function ‘f ’, task or process, and the effort ‘( )’ applied to the input variables (x), by which they are modified, changed or altered – the transformation activity.
RANDOM X -improving the variables & processes
‘X’ (Capitalized X, and sometimes underlined), represents the possible random inputs, factors, variables, or elements that have yet unknown, but probable or likely desirable effects on the process, outcome, customer or supplier.
Improvement is continuously planning and experimenting forward with new variables to better outcomes and understanding. Semper Gumby!
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P.I.L.L.S. is the acronym for Progressively, Improving, with Little, Leveraging, Sprints.
SETS & REPS! Discipline, Training, and Habits.
