How to hit your goals in 12 weeks 🌟 '12-week year' goal-setting framework

Hello my love and welcome back to another episode of The Inher Power Podcast. Welcome to our first episode back for 2026. Oh my God, I have missed you guys. I am so excited to be back in your ears. Guys, 2026 is the year. I spoke about this a little bit over on my YouTube channel. 2026 is a one year for us all collectively. So what I mean by a one year is if you add two plus two plus six, which is 2026, it equals 10. Therefore is a one year in numerology. And we all know that one is rebirth, restart, fresh chapter, new beginnings. And I think there is so much beautiful, exciting, fresh energy amongst us all for this new year. I don't know what it is about this year personally for me. I just know deep down this is the year that's going to change my life forever. I don't know whether it's because I'm turning 30 in like literally just over a month. 11th of February is my birthday and I'm turning 30. So I'm starting a new decade as we basically start a new year and it's just this beautiful energy. So I'm so so excited to be back in your ears. This is a big year for the potty. I won't say too much, but we are back and ready to rumble and it's going to be one hell of a year. So strap in as all I can say. But without further ado, let's get stuck straight into today's episode because today's topic has the potential to completely change your life. And I don't say that or ever take that lightly. I don't want to sound dramatic by saying that. So this is a concept that completely took what I knew about goals and goal setting and then flipped it on its head. And that is the 12 week year. This is actually a goal setting system used predominantly in business created by Brian Moron and Michael Lenington. They have an entire book about this. There's a lot of free content out there about this concept and about this system in simple terms. It is a goal setting structure or a goal setting method that treats every 12 weeks like an entire year. Hence the name. So what I don't do anymore is set big, annual goals. The kind of just come across as intentions anyway. I want to get a new car. Okay, cool. Where's the action plan? How are we breaking that down? How are we reverse engineering and kind of putting it into bite size sprints or action plans, if you will? Yearly goals sound really motivating. They sound really motivating when we set them, whether at that be at the end of one year or the first of January of the next year, whatever it is, they sound super inspiring and motivating and I'm going to save all this money and work really hard and post all this content to get more followers than X, Y and Z. And we know that the cycle typically is you motivated for the first couple of weeks of January and then you get the wobbles and then you get the guilt and then oh, no, I've got to pick back up again and then you get the motivation and then the wobbles and the guilt and this disgusting cycle that we keep going through. What we're not going to do in 2026 is set annual goals with no real reverse engineering. It's okay if you have annual goals. In fact, I do this year as well and I have actually broken them down into 12 week action plans or I've looked at them as if they were a 12 week year repeated four times. So it sounds a bit confusing and I want to break down how it works, what it looks like and I want to show you guys a little 12 week year calendar that I created for myself. Now this calendar idea was inspired by another creator. I will not take credit for it. The 12 week plan is also not my idea. I have just used these concepts, applied them to my own life before we get stuck in. Let me just reiterate, if you are someone that has set goals in a different way or you've set goals in a certain way and you haven't achieved them, I just want to remind you that it doesn't mean necessarily that you are a lazy, undisciplined, unmotivated human. A lot of the time it actually is your system that is flawed. It is not you that is flawed. You are just not working with your brain. You're typically working against it. Trust me, I have been there, I have done this and this is the change that I needed because there is actually a psychology to back wide the 12 week plan works better than just setting random goals and chipping away at them with no real plan. So when you set your big annual goals, for example, in 2026 on a new car or in 2026 on 100,000 followers, they sound really motivating. This is a motivational based goal setting technique. You are setting a big, vivacious goal with the intention or the hopes that it will come to fruition at some point throughout the year with no real action plan. It's okay if you do set your annual goals, but you need to have an action plan that allows you to, I guess, chip away at it in bite-sized pieces. The problem with the motivational based goal setting is your motivation is completely out of your control. A lot of the time, motivation is an emotion. So therefore it is not reliable. You are relying on a system that you cannot control. And I guess the downside to motivation, when we have it, it's incredible. It feels amazing. We're on top of the world. We often only feel motivation when things are either going well or when we have been given the opportunity to start again. For example, the beginning of a new year or the end of one year. When things get mundane and that they will, because that's life, this is how life rolls. We have to go through the seasons of the boring mundane rigidity sometimes. When that happens, we often feel that motivation drops a little bit and therefore all of a sudden our goals too hard or all of a sudden all our goal is unaligned or misaligned. And this is why a lot of people including myself often constantly change goals or stop and start or fall off a bandwagon or get the wobbles and then have to press restart every couple of weeks. We are not doing that in 2026 and I actually have the solution for you. I have a system that has been trialled and tested not created by me but trialled and tested by me that can work and will work if you spend the time to set yourself up. So let's do it together in this episode right now. Super simple, straight to the point, the 12 week year. As I said earlier, it treats every 12 weeks so every quarter-ish like its own little year within itself. So instead of focusing on the 10 million things that you need to do throughout the year in order to achieve your big vivacious annual goal that you set on the first of January, it actually requires you to focus on a few things for a shorter amount of time, so for 12 weeks, the 12 week year. One thing to really note in the back of your head, forever, now once that I say it, in order to achieve a goal that goal requires two things really. It requires structure and it also requires urgency. When I say urgency, let me explain because when this dropped for me, once this clicked, it's like a light bulb went off and I was like, wait, this makes sense. So I want you to think about, let's say for example, you're studying, you leave everything to the last minute and you know you have a test coming up, you leave it to the last minute and then three days before, you're like, I actually have to study for this. Let me cram as much as I can in because I can see the deadline. I can see the timeline basically. I've got three days to cram as much as I can and you go him on that goal, right? You are studying every hour you can, you are blocking out your distractions, you're locking in, there is nothing that will shake that conviction and nothing that will shake that goal. Same goes for like people that are like, want to get into good shape for a holiday. They've got this holiday booked in for like six months and then it will be like six weeks out and they're like, oh, I've got to go on this big cart because I've got to lose all this weight, look within this bikini and blah, blah, blah, blah. I know a lot of people that do that. Fortunately, this is just an example. And then all of a sudden they've got six to four weeks to really lock in and you'll notice that because they can see that deadline, they have left it to the last minute, they have a short amount of time to get a lot done, they work harder, they chip away more aggressively at it. This is what I love most about the 12 week plan because I am someone that thrives when I have a shorter timeframe because I have evidence to prove that I perform under pressure. So this system works best for me because instead of not being able to see the deadline because you've set a long annual goal with no real action plan, you can see the deadline because you've got a date in which you need to have attained a certain result. Remember how I said that your goals require structure and urgency? This shorter timeframe is giving you structure and urgency. So you actually stop planning or someday throughout the year I'll be able to obtain this. No, we actually have a plan and we have a time frame here in which you need to have actioned it by. I love it because it's that beautiful, healthy pressure that you can softly apply to yourself to ensure that you're constantly chipping away at something with intention, with structure. It's not just wishing upon a star and hoping for the best, it's actually giving you a plan. How can you apply the 12 week plan to your goals for 2026? It's actually very simple but it does require a little bit of a sit down with yourself to get really honest as to how you're going to obtain this goal over time. So all you have to do is ask yourself, okay, what is my goal? So for example, one of my goals, I have a big, vivacious social media following goal. I won't talk about it just yet. I wanna see if I can do it behind closed doors before I give you guys some insight. And if I do hit it, I'll talk more about how I did it, kind of how I planned it out, all that kind of stuff. It's just like a fun little vein metric kind of goal to chip away at. I have some more serious goals that I have also implemented the 12 week plan into so like finances and all that kind of stuff. But one that you guys will understand because you're either on social media or you're on some digital media consuming this episode today. Let's use the social media goal as an example. So I have a huge end of year goal that I would love to achieve across all my social media channels. It is a follower goal, it is a number. The 12 week plan works best when you have something you can track over time because every 12 weeks has a target that you're gonna try and hit. So I said to myself, okay, this is my goal for the entirety of 2026. How can we break this down into quarters? And I actually asked Chatsubit to help me break this down using the 12 week plan method. So hey Chatsubit, this is my goal for 2026. I want you to break it down into 12 week action plans. So from there, I had a follower target that I need to try and hit at the end of every quarter. And I have an action plan as to how I'm going to do that. So I have X amount of times I need to post every single week. I have X amount of times I need to be in my DMs engaging at the end of every single week. I will go through and do a CEO day. I'm having an in quotation marks. I have that scheduled in my calendar where I will actually go through review my analytics. What's performing? Well, what's not? How can we harness this data? And then rinse and repeat it for new content. And then at the end of every single month, I go through and I do a further in depth audit. Have a look at, you know, how is this fitting into my routine? How am I feeling about this? How is my mindset around this? Did we hit our target? And then at the end of the quarter, I then rinse, repeat, reset for the next quarter. So I'm actually going to show you guys, and if you're not watching on video form, you won't see this. But I have actually gone and created my very own physical 12 week year calendar. So it has every single month for the entire year on this board. And I've gone in with stick it notes or post it notes, gone in and put on all of my daily, weekly, monthly and or quarterly actions that is required from me in order to obtain this goal. Now, this just keeps it really tactile and fun. I love a physical something to keep me on track. And I've actually set myself a rule that these post it notes shouldn't change. But if they have to, they can be moved to another date, but they cannot be removed from the calendar at all. Because my word in 2026 is law. It is not up for negotiation. I have my action plan here, and this will get done. It doesn't have to be on the exact set date that I've set it on. But we do not remove this from the calendar. It gets moved to a more convenient date. So this is the action plan. This is the calendar in which I'm monitoring, and I also have my own reset and audit guide that I'm going through at the end of every single week, at the end of every single month, and at the end of every single quarter. It is very in depth here. And if you are someone that doesn't typically do this kind of stuff, you may be rolling your eyes and thinking, "Wow, way too much effort." But guess what? The effort is what differentiates the people who will be doing what they said they were going to do in 2026, and the people that are not. If you were someone that's like, "Yeah, no, that's way too much effort," I really encourage you to do a little bit of reflection around how badly do you want what you say you want. Because if you want it as bad as I want the things that I want, you will go to the end of the earth to get it. And that's exactly what I'm doing. And it's my invitation to you guys now, right now. How badly do you want the goals you said you want in 2026? If you want them as bad as I want mine, go do what I'm doing. This has been trial and tested. It is a method that has used worldwide. And this calendar is just an extra addition, a tactile, complementary tool that will help me monitor my progress. There is a lot of psychological backing as to why the 12 week plan does can and will work. Not only for myself, but also for you guys. So as I said, our brains naturally respond better, more efficiently to near term deadlines, not long term near term deadlines. And so because we have a faster feedback loop, we're doing more of the aligned action in the shorter time frame. We have more evidence and therefore more confidence that we built that. Yes, we are on the right track. Yes, we can do the hard things. Yes, we are taking things off and accomplishing things and moving the needle towards things. So that's when our self-trust gets built. That's when we get our confidence. And then therefore that projects us through the next quarter, the next quarter, the next quarter. And before you know, we're at the end of 2026 and you have obtained basically everything you set out to do. That is a 12 week plan. That's how I've set out mine. That's why it matters. That's why it's backed by how the brain works. It is over to you now. I would recommend that you set anywhere between one to three big yearly goals and then reverse engineer them. Okay, don't just set them and hope that at some point throughout 2026 you'll get the money to buy the car or get the followers because you'll go viral or whatever. You need to have a specific plan in place. You then also need to define what success looks like by week 12. Again, this is where your targets come into play. For myself, again, let's say the social media following goal, I have a specific number, a target piece of data that I'm working towards. What does success look like for you at the end of your first 12 weeks? And then you need to reverse engineer those into weekly actions and daily actions. Again, if you don't know them off the top of your head, use what is available to you. Chachi BT are someone who's done it before. Invest this time and effort into figuring out what your aligned actions are. And then of course, you need to schedule that in. Either set up reminders, put it in your habit track art. You need to go to the ends of the earth to get the things that you want because the reality is if you continue doing what you did last year, treating your goals like they're this blasé, oh, it might happen, it may not, it's fine if it doesn't. If you continue with that, you're going to get, well, you've always got. So you need to do something that you haven't done before and I can guarantee for a lot of you, it's going that extra mile. It's not necessarily working harder. It's getting more structure and urgency in place so that the goals thrive. And this is your reminder, if it's not in your calendar, if it's not scheduled, it is not a priority to you. I don't know if you needed to hear that right now when you did, but if it's not scheduled, it is not a priority to you. Take your big beautiful goals, apply them to the 12 week year method. I'm telling you your life will do a complete 180. Mark my words. I'm so excited to be back in your ears. I'm so excited for another beautiful year together. Happy 2026, my beautiful in her power family. As always, thank you so much. I love you so much. I'll see you in our next episode.