ACE Your Way to Success, Pt. 1
When I was an undergrad engineering student, I recall being overwhelmed with the amount of work I had. I was having difficulties with managing my goals, so I created a simple acronym to help me. I still use this acronym to this day and it’s called A-C-E, which stands for Assess, Commit, and Execute.
Recently I came across SMART (Specific, Measureable, Achieveable, Realistic, and Time-bound) as well as EASIER (Envision, Assess, Strategize, Implement, Evaluate, and Report). I agree with the steps for these two approaches, but I know I won’t remember what the acronyms mean. I’ll stick with my own ACE - only three words to remember!
For me, the beauty of ACE is that it works for big or small goals. If you’re at a restaurant and going through the menu, the assess-commit-execute steps might take only a second. If you are going to begin a new three-year, multi-million dollar project at work, you will still go through the assess-commit-execute steps, but there will be much more iterations, and each iteration will be more involved.
The key for me is that I already had components of SMART and EASIER in my ACE system, plus more. The continuation of this series will go into more details of each of the steps in ACE, and I’ll also compare each of the three systems.
Al at 7P
Mitcehll Allen
Ron Hitson
Chris | Martial Development
The beauty of simplicity at it’s finest! I like ACE, easy to remember and very actionable.
Hi Priscilla! To be honest, the original system had a total of nine steps, but I forgot what the last six were and had to just stick with ACE (just kidding).
I tend to be a pretty impatient person… if something takes too long to memorize, I just can’t be bothered with it. In other words, ACE is so simple, even i can use it
[…] Part 1 of this series, I introduced the A-C-E system (Assess, Commit, Execute) that I created for myself to help sort out […]
[…] Part 1 of this series, I introduced the A-C-E system (Assess, Commit, Execute) that I created for myself to help sort out […]
[…] Part 1 of the series introduced ACE (Assess, Commit, Execute) which can be used for both simple and large tasks and goals, and part 2 of the series explained in more details of how ACE can be used for the larger tasks. The ACE system was something I created to help myself, and I was compelled to post it since I also came across SMART (Specific, Measureable, Achieveable, Realistic, and Time-bound) and EASIER (Envision, Assess, Strategize, Implement, Evaluate, and Report), which were both similar to ACE. […]
[…] Part 1 of the series introduced ACE (Assess, Commit, Execute) which can be used for both simple and large tasks and goals, and part 2 of the series explained in more details of how ACE can be used for the larger tasks. The ACE system was something I created to help myself, and I was compelled to post it since I also came across SMART (Specific, Measureable, Achieveable, Realistic, and Time-bound) and EASIER (Envision, Assess, Strategize, Implement, Evaluate, and Report), which were both similar to ACE. […]