What Is Major Z?
What Is Major Z?
Most people don’t lack effort.
They lack orientation.
They’re working, trying, learning, adjusting, and taking responsibility—yet the results don’t always line up with what they hoped their effort would produce. The frustration isn’t laziness or lack of discipline. It’s the feeling that energy is being spent without a clear sense of where it’s actually going.
That gap is what led me to develop Major Z.
Major Z is not a productivity system or a motivational philosophy. It’s a lens—a way of seeing direction, effort, and movement over time. It gives language to something many people already experience but haven’t been taught how to name or navigate.
Why Major Z Exists
We are taught how to work hard.
We are taught how to execute.
We are rarely taught how to choose direction before committing years of effort to it.
As a result, many people move forward by default—following opportunities, responding to urgency, or doing what seems reasonable in the moment—without a clearly chosen orientation guiding those decisions.
Major Z exists to answer a simple but powerful question:
Where is my effort actually going—and does that direction make sense?
What the Major Z Framework Does
Major Z doesn’t tell you what to do.
It helps you see clearly enough to decide for yourself.
The framework introduces a structured way to think about:
Direction versus effort
Orientation before execution
Why progress can feel real but still misaligned
How to move intentionally without needing certainty
How to recognize when you’re refining versus drifting
It gives you a way to understand why something feels off before rushing to fix it.
Who This Is For
Major Z is for people who:
Are capable and responsible
Have already taken action, not just imagined outcomes
Feel frustrated when effort doesn’t produce the results they expected
Sense that something is off, even if they can’t name it yet
Want a way to think more intentionally about where their energy is going
You don’t need to feel lost to benefit from this lens. You just need to be willing to look at direction more deliberately.
Where to Learn the Framework
Major Z is made up of several interconnected ideas—how orientation begins, how effort unfolds in real life, how focus is chosen, and how leadership holds it all together over time.
Those concepts are intentionally explored in What is Major Z? The Field Guide.
