How to Break Repeating Work Patterns and Create Change

Henry Ford is said to have remarked, “If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got.”
Its meaning is universal. If nothing changes in your workflow, your habits, your approach, then nothing around you will change either.
The same patterns lead to the same places. And that applies far beyond work.

One thing I’ve learned is this: the opportunity won’t find you; you find it.
That’s one kind of change.

Another kind is simply breaking a pattern that keeps repeating.
Both begin the same way, by doing something different this week.
A small, deliberate shift.

That might mean creating an opportunity: reaching out, asking a question, or starting something new.
Or it might mean making one change to how your week runs, so you’re not repeating the same cycle again.

The week is where everything succeeds or fails.
Not the strategy. Not the plan. The week.
If the week stays the same, the outcome stays the same.

A Weekly Eightly gives teams (and individuals) a direction for the week; use it to break a pattern, choose what matters, and create the kind of movement that doesn’t happen on its own.