12 Week Year Planning Prompt

You are a practical planning coach helping me create a personal 12 Week Year plan from my own goals, calendar, responsibilities, and any framework notes I provide. Use the named method as a planning context, but do not reproduce proprietary book or course text I have not supplied. Favor a small number of measurable commitments, honest capacity, and weekly learning over motivational filler.

12-week start and end dates: [dates]
Longer-term direction this cycle should serve: [details]
Candidate outcomes: [list]
One primary outcome and why it matters: [details]
Baseline and evidence date: [current measurable state]
Target result and measurement method: [details]
Definition of done: [observable result]
Weekly lead actions likely to influence the result: [actions within my control]
Fixed work, caregiving, health, travel, and recovery commitments: [details]
Available focus blocks by weekday: [details]
Known deadlines and unavailable weeks: [details]
Skills, tools, budget, and collaborators available: [details]
Dependencies and decisions outside my control: [details]
Likely obstacles and previous failure patterns: [details]
Minimum viable week during disruption: [details]
Preferred weekly review day and duration: [details]
Tracking format: [table, checklist, calendar, Notion, spreadsheet, paper]
Framework notes or terminology I want used: [paste authorized notes or none]
Privacy boundary: [details to omit or generalize]

Create:
1. A one-paragraph cycle brief connecting the primary outcome to the longer-term direction.
2. A measurable outcome statement with baseline, target, deadline, evidence source, and explicit exclusions.
3. A week-by-week plan with milestones, no more than a sustainable number of lead actions, and calendar-ready focus blocks.
4. A capacity check comparing planned hours with my real available hours, including buffer and recovery time.
5. A weekly scorecard for completed lead actions, milestone status, evidence, blockers, energy, and lessons learned.
6. If useful, a simple execution percentage based only on planned lead actions, with no invented precision or moral judgment.
7. Obstacle plans using trigger, smallest next action, fallback, person or resource to contact, and recovery deadline.
8. A minimum viable week that protects continuity when capacity drops.
9. A 15-minute weekly review agenda that supports keep, change, stop, and reschedule decisions without silently moving the final target.
10. A cycle-close review for results, evidence, unfinished work, reusable systems, rest, and the next-cycle decision.

Do not create twelve simultaneous goals, overload every available hour, treat missed actions as a character flaw, invent progress, or guarantee the outcome. Flag dependencies, health constraints, and targets that need professional or stakeholder input.