🌱 A simple way to decide what matters (MoSCoW)

Here’s your 3 insights in 3 minutes. 

📍The “MoSCoW” Method

At the start of the year, I used one of my favorite frameworks called MoSCoW.

I recommend it for any project where you need to cut through noise and decide what matters.

• Must Have: non-negotiables 

• Should Have - important but not critical 

• Could Have - nice to haves

• Won’t Have - dealbreakers 

I learned it at AppSumo.

It helped me get clear on what my business I wanted to create. 

What I’d say yes to.

And more importantly… what I wouldn’t.

Here’s my MSCW I wrote out January 1st this year.

(Spoiler: it worked)

Here’s the MoSCoW Method: Planning Template for you to copy and use for your next projects.

🦅 The Bird vs Branch

Looking back, the framework helped show me what I wanted to create. 

But it didn’t drive the results.

A bird doesn’t land on a branch because it trusts the branch won’t break. 

It lands because it trusts that if the branch breaks, the bird can just fly away. 

This is the difference between: planning with fear vs acting with trust. 

You can have the perfect plan…

But if you don’t trust yourself to move, adjust, and recover --

you’ll stay stuck holding onto the same branch (job, relationship, etc) out of fear. 

And yea let me be real, some branches will break. 

But after a few reps, you realize: 

You’re not stuck. You can fly! 

Planning shows you what you want. 

Trust is what gets you there. 

🌱 Being a Gardner 

I used to try to plan and optimize to make things happen.

Push harder and optimize outcomes. 

It worked…until it didn’t. 

Then I came across this: 

That (in addition to tons of emotional intelligence work) shifted how I think. 

Now I focus less on forcing results, and more on creating the conditions:  

• What i pay attention to 

• Who i spend time with

• What i say yes and no to

• What i consistently show up for 

Coincidently (or not), these conditions lead to way better results. 

If you allow it. 

Because at the end of the day. 

You don’t control the outcomes. 

You create the conditions.

Salud,
Mitchell