The SANE cycle can help us craft clarity.

1. Crafting Clarity
The SANE Cycle

2. Created by Tom Curtis 2012
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3. Consistent Clarity is not
accidental or free. It is paid
for in disciple and effort.
What follows is a cycle to
help us craft clarity. It is
possible, let's go and get it.

4. The SANE Cycle
Set
Align
Navigate
Evaluate

5. Set
To craft clarity we need to have
a goal to fix and focus on. A
goal provides a stable point of
reference, a measuring stick for
decisions and progress, and a
destination to work towards.

6. Align
Clarity results from the
alignment of our activities,
actions, aspirations, and energy
to the set goal. This helps us
stop doing what we should not
and frees time and effort for
what we should.

7. Navigate
With alignment, we now need to
navigate. To navigate is to
choose and do those activities
and actions that fit with the
first two phases of the cycle.
This phase determines if we
reach our chosen goal.

8. Evaluate
If we are to keep and improve
our clarity and progress, we
must evaluate the other three
steps. This may not be pleasant,
but it is crucial. Then we must
cycle through the phases
adjusting based on what we have
learned in our evaluation.