Ted Lasso & Your Halftime Reset

“As the man once said, the hard­er you work, the luck­i­er you get.”

- Ted Lasso

I real­ly love the Ted Las­so show. Although a bit scep­ti­cal ini­tial­ly, I find it enter­tain­ing with some great philosophes – and some cringe-wor­thy moments.

Ted and the soc­cer team often have a great talk at half­time, which some­times leads to bet­ter results in the sec­ond half, and some­times doesn’t. Like many sports, there’s a rit­u­al of reset­ting their think­ing halfway through the game.

While no one is going to sud­den­ly mas­ter a new posi­tion or a new skill in that short break, the team mem­bers have a chance to reflect and reset their focus or per­spec­tive for the back half.

And the same goes for us.

Lever­age the Pow­er of Halftime

“If you’re com­fort­able while you’re doing it, you’re prob­a­bly doing it wrong.”

-Ted Las­so

We’re halfway through the year – an ide­al oppor­tu­ni­ty to make sure you lever­age the pow­er of half­time. Take a breath, check your per­spec­tive and re-cal­i­brate your plans for sec­ond half of the year.

There are two sim­ple ways to do that:

• Per­son­al­ly, review your mas­ter plan, with your part­ner, fam­i­ly mem­ber, coach or men­tor and eval­u­ate how you did on your goals for Q2
• Pro­fes­sion­al­ly, reset what’s most impor­tant to make July through Sep­tem­ber amazing.

Ide­al­ly, your com­pa­ny has estab­lished a quar­ter­ly rhythm. So, make sure, in your quar­ter­ly meet­ing, you go back and look at your annu­al goals and recal­i­brate them to make sure have the great­est chance of win­ning in the sec­ond half. You might need to change a cou­ple of your plays or goals, based on what you learned in the first half.

No mat­ter whether you do this per­son­al­ly or pro­fes­sion­al­ly, I encour­age you to:

• Do this one-page self-reflec­tion
• Do the sec­ond page to pri­or­i­tize what is most impor­tant for Work, Self and Life
• Reset your goals for the next quarter.

The Chal­lenge

• If you were to believe any­thing is pos­si­ble, what would you ful­ly com­mit to achiev­ing in the next quarter?

In case you don’t have all the tools, here are:

• The Mas­ter Plan PDFExcel
• The Quar­ter­ly reset and reflec­tion PDF Excel
• The Full Tool Kit includ­ing the 10-Year Plan:Excel

As a reminder, you can also read Chap­ter 17 of Your Oxy­gen Mask First.

For your com­pa­ny, all the tools are found in Scal­ing Up.

Addi­tion­al Growth Whis­per­er Podcasts

• How to Get the Most from your Strate­gic Plan­ning Framework
• Why You Need a Quar­ter­ly Reset
• Why the One-Page Plan Works

Addi­tion­al Blogs

• The Quar­ter­ly Strate­gic Plan­ning Meeting
• Quar­ter­ly or Annu­al Plan­ning Themes
• Stop, Look & Lis­ten – Plan­ning Your Next 90 Days

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