The Secrets of Supermom Show
Welcome to The Secrets of Supermom Show where we uncover the secrets to work-life balance, time management, and staying motivated and happy as a busy working mom.
Author, podcaster, corporate leader, wife, and mom of four, Lori Whitney Oberbroeckling shares tips she learned writing the book
Secrets of Supermom, her own productivity and parenting hacks, and interviews with supermoms from around the world.
Struggle with getting things done, balancing it all, or happiness in general? Prepare to walk away with inspiration, motivation, and easy step-by-step processes to do it all without the overwhelm.
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The 12 Week Year: Why It Sounds Powerful (And Why It Can Be Hard for Moms)
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The 12 Week Year is one of the most popular goal-setting systems in the productivity world. The idea is simple: instead of planning goals for an entire year, you treat 12 weeks like a full year so you can focus, create urgency, and make faster progress.
In theory, it makes a lot of sense.
You choose one or two big goals, create weekly action plans, track your execution, and measure your progress with a scorecard. The creators even recommend aiming for 85% execution each week to stay on track.
But what happens when your weeks don’t look the same?
What happens when real life shows up with sick kids, school calls, travel, sports tournaments, work deadlines, and all the unpredictable moments that come with motherhood?
In this episode of the Secrets of Supermom Show, Lori Oberbroeckling continues the series “What If You’re Not the Problem: Productivity Systems Not Built for You (And How Moms Can Make Them Work)” by breaking down the popular 12 Week Year system.
You’ll learn:
- What the 12 Week Year actually is and how the system works
- Why the execution scorecard and weekly metrics can sometimes create pressure instead of motivation
- How the assumption of consistent weeks can break down for busy moms
- Practical ways to adapt the system so it works with motherhood, not against it
Because the problem may not be you.
It may be that the system was designed for lives with predictable capacity, while motherhood runs on variable capacity.
And when you adapt these productivity tools to fit your real life, you can keep the parts that work—and let go of the parts that don’t.
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