Do you ever feel like you're scrambling to keep up, but all your hard work is disconnected from your big goals? It’s easy to get stuck in the flurry of emails and notifications, but true success comes from ensuring your daily agenda reflects your larger vision. In this series finale of From Stuck to Making Progress, we dive into the systems that move the needle.

Drawing on John Maxwell’s Law of the Big Picture, we explore how to stop letting your inbox dictate your life. You’ll learn three simple, repeatable systems—the Sunday Blueprint, the Golden Hour, and the Daily Check-in—that will help you close the gap between your strategy and your execution.

In This Episode, You'll Learn:

• The Law of the Big Picture: Why seeing the larger vision for your life is essential for directing your daily energy and focus.

• The Sunday Night Blueprint: A 15-minute weekly planning session to identify priorities before the chaos of Monday morning begins.

• The Golden Hour (Two-Hour Goal Block): The power of scheduling a focused time block for your #1 priority before the day’s distractions take over.

• The Daily Check-in: A simple end-of-day review to acknowledge wins, honor your effort, and adjust your plan for the following day.

• Closing the Gap: How to ensure your daily productivity is actually moving you toward your 90-day milestones and long-term purpose.

Key Takeaways & Principles

• Consistency Over Perfection: Don’t wait for the "perfect" plan to start. A simple plan executed consistently is better than a perfect plan that never leaves the page.

• Strategy vs. Execution: Your vision is your destination, but your daily habits are the vehicle. If the two aren't connected, you'll stay stuck.

• Honor the Effort: Success isn't just about the finished to-do list; it’s about acknowledging how you handled the day’s challenges and showing up for what matters.

Your Action Step: The Claim Your Day Action Challenge

1. The 15-Minute Blueprint: This Sunday night, set aside 15 minutes to look at the week ahead.

2. Identify Top 3 Priorities: Choose three key priorities for the week that are directly connected to your current 90-day goals.

3. Schedule the Action: Decide exactly when you will tackle these priorities during the week to ensure they don't get lost in the shuffle.

Resources Mentioned

• Intentional Choice Guide: Go to nickmazy.com to download the guide and start making choices that align with your true values.

• Previous Episodes: Make sure to listen to Episode 66 (Backcasting) and Episode 67 (The Law of Priorities) to fully round out your progress strategy.

• Next Series Teaser: Stay tuned for our upcoming episodes where we continue to explore how to live a life of intention and purpose!

Do you catch yourself saying "yes" to every good opportunity, only to realize later that you’ve run out of time for your biggest goals? Being busy is not the same as being productive. In this episode, we tackle ineffective prioritization and how to make the strategic shifts necessary to move from being "stuck in the good" to "progressing toward the great."

We dive into John Maxwell’s Law of Priorities, exploring the truth that activity is not necessarily accomplishment. You’ll learn how to use the "Opportunity Cost Test" and the 80/20 rule to filter every request through your current quarterly goals, ensuring your energy is spent where it matters most.

In This Episode, You'll Learn:

• The Law of Priorities: Why leaders understand that just because you're busy doesn't mean you're making progress.

• The Opportunity Cost Test: The reality that every "yes" you give to one thing is an automatic "no" to something else.

• The 80/20 Rule in Action: How 20% of your activities (like Nick’s dreaded burpees!) often lead to 80% of your results.

• The Quarterly Filter: How to be ruthless in evaluating opportunities based on your current 90-day objectives.

• Choosing Great Over Good: The mindset shift required to decline a positive opportunity to protect a transformative one.

Key Takeaways & Principles

• Everything Costs Something: Always ask, "What am I giving up by saying yes to this?" before committing your time or energy.

• Disproportionate Returns: Identify the few tasks that provide the greatest bang for your buck and prioritize them above all else.

• Strategic No’s: Saying "no" to a good organization or a lunch date isn't about being negative; it's about being intentional with your life's mission.

Your Action Step: The Claim Your Day Action Challenge

1. Calendar Audit: Review your calendar for the upcoming week and identify one recurring "good" activity that isn't contributing to your current 90-day goal.

2. The Cut: Be ruthless. Eliminate or pause that one activity to free up time, energy, and focus for your true priorities.

3. The Filter: Practice using your quarterly goals as a filter for any new requests that come your way this week.

Resources Mentioned

• Intentional Choice Guide: Head over to nickmazy.com to grab the guide that helps you define the values you need to protect.

• Book Recommendation: The 12-Week Year (Great for diving deeper into the 90-day segment strategy).

Previous Episode (66): If you haven't yet, listen to the previous episode on Backcasting to help set the 90-day goals you'll use as your filter!

Does your major, long-term goal feel miles away? When the finish line is distant, it's easy to lose momentum and suffer from a lack of purposeful progress. This episode provides the strategy to transform that distant vision into a series of actionable, achievable steps—starting today.

We're charting your course by breaking down your goals using the powerful 90-Day Segment framework. It's the "Goldilocks Zone" of goal-setting: close enough to demand action, but far enough to allow for significant gains.

In This Episode, You'll Learn:

• The Backcasting Method: How to start with your goal already achieved (in your mind's eye), look back, and identify the major required steps to get there.

• The Power of 90 Days: Why the 90-day (or 12-week) segment is the ideal timeframe for personal goal setting—it's short enough to create urgency but long enough to make real progress.

• Maintaining Momentum: Why mini-celebrations and built-in breaks are non-negotiable steps between 90-day segments to prevent burnout, recharge, and maintain motivation.

• From Vision to Daily Action: How connecting your daily actions to quarterly goals, and those quarterly goals to your ultimate vision, ensures every day you claim your day with purpose.

Key Takeaways & Principles

• Small Steps Win: Consistent small steps over time will take you farther than trying to rely on massive, sporadic leaps.

• Chart Your Course: Don't just steer aimlessly; use backcasting to clearly chart the course to your big goals using manageable steps.

• Acknowledge the Effort: Celebration and acknowledgment of small wins are critical fuel that boosts your motivation and sustains the fire of your long-term commitment.

Your Action Step: The Claim Your Day Action Challenge

1. Backcast: Take your largest, most important long-term goal and visualize achieving it. Then, write down the major milestones (required steps) that led you there.

2. 90-Day Target: Identify which of those required steps you will fully accomplish in the next 90 days.

3. Promise to Celebrate: Commit to building in mini-celebrations and a rest break at the end of that 90-day push to rejuvenate and prepare for the next quarter.

Resources Mentioned

• Previous Episode (65): If you missed it, go back and ensure your goals are anchored in your core values before breaking them down.

Next Episode Teaser: Subscribe! We will be diving into the crucial next step: translating those 90-day targets into weekly and daily agendas so you know exactly what to do today.