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title: Your 90-Day Execution Priority Stack
summary: A scoring system that forces you to pick three priorities, sequence them, and start executing this quarter.
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Operators who have ten priorities have no priorities.

This module builds the system that forces you to pick three, sequence them correctly, and start executing before the lesson is over.

**Why 90 Days**

The 90-day horizon is not arbitrary. It is the right window for operators for three reasons.

It is short enough to forecast with reasonable accuracy. Twelve months is too far out for most small business conditions. Too many variables can shift.

It is long enough to complete meaningful work. Thirty-day planning windows barely give you time to execute a single move before the window closes.

And it aligns with the natural rhythm of most business and financial cycles. Quarterly reviews, tax periods, client renewal windows, team planning cadences.

Ninety days is the window where intent becomes outcome.

**The Priority Scoring System**

Before you name your three priorities, you need to score every candidate. This prevents the most common mistake in operator planning: prioritizing what is exciting over what actually moves the business forward.

Score each candidate priority against three criteria. One, two, or three points for each.

Criterion one: business impact. Does this directly drive revenue, retention, or operational efficiency in a measurable way? A three means yes, clearly. A one means it is nice to have but does not move a key metric.

Criterion two: feasibility this quarter. Can this be meaningfully completed or substantially advanced with the resources you currently have in 90 days? A three means yes. A one means you do not have what it requires yet.

Criterion three: constraint removal. Does this directly address the key constraint you named in Component 07 of your one-page plan? A three means it removes or significantly reduces the constraint. A one means it does not touch it.

Total the scores for each candidate. Your three highest-scoring items become your 90-day priority stack. That is the forced ranking. The scoring does it for you.

**Building the Stack**

Once you have your three priorities, you need three more things for each one.

A success definition. What does this priority look like at completion? Not progress. Done. Name the specific outcome.

A lead. Who is responsible for driving this priority? In a solo operation, that is you. In a team, name the person. The priority without an owner is a wish.

A week-one action. What is the single specific action that begins in the first seven days of the quarter? This is the moment the plan becomes operational. Without it, the priority sits at the top of a list and waits for the right moment, which never arrives.

**What Does Not Make the Stack**

The items that did not score high enough are not deleted. They are deferred.

There is a critical distinction there. Deferred means it will be reconsidered at the next quarterly reset. Deleted means it is gone. Most items that do not make the current stack are not bad ideas. They are right ideas at the wrong time.

Log them in your worksheet. They are candidates for the following quarter. That list will make your next planning session faster.

**Your Action Step**

Download the Module 05 worksheet below. Complete Part A by listing and scoring all your candidate priorities. Transfer your top three to Part B. Fill in the success definition, the lead, and the week-one action for each one.

Then return to your one-page plan and update Component 05 with your priority stack and Component 06 with your 90-day goal drawn from Priority 01.
