Ten minutes, one page, something you can keep.

Exercise · 10 min

Evidence of Strength

Names a claimed strength and asks for the occasions that prove it.

Part of What am I actually good at

Exercise · 10 min

What Keeps Coming Back

Collects the subjects a person returns to without being asked, then tests them against time actually spent.

Part of What this part of my life is about

Exercise · 12 min

Red Thread

Finds the line running through a working life instead of a list of roles.

Part of Build your story

Exercise · 12 min

50 Word Introduction Builder

One short written introduction built from evidence, not adjectives.

Part of What do you want to be known for?

Exercise · 10 min

What Changes on Tuesday?

Takes a stated want and asks what would be different in an ordinary week if it happened.

Part of What do you actually want?

Exercise · 12 min

Alternative Map

Sets the obvious option beside the ones that have not been said out loud.

Part of What should I actually do?

Exercise · 10 min

Principles Under Pressure

Tests a stated principle against the last time holding it cost something.

Part of Your principles

Exercise · 12 min

Mine / Theirs / Shared / Outside My Control

Sorts a tangled situation into four columns.

Part of What am I responsible for?

Exercise · 8 min

Leave It Alone List

Records what is already working, so it survives the next round of improvement.

Part of What does not need fixing?

Exercise · 8 min

Avoidance Test

Tests whether a delay is timing or avoidance wearing timing as a disguise.

Part of What am I avoiding

Exercise · 10 min

Confidence Evidence Bank

Builds a record of what has already been done, for use on the days it is not believed.

Part of Your confidence audit

Exercise · 10 min

Digital Reality Check

Compares assumed screen behaviour with recorded screen behaviour.

Part of My digital self

Exercise · 12 min

Belief vs Behaviour Audit

Puts stated values next to the diary and the bank statement.

Part of Does my life match what I believe

Exercise · 12 min

Circles of Obligation

Places obligations to family, neighbours and strangers in the same frame.

Part of What do I owe strangers

Exercise · 10 min

Before You Have The Conversation

One page of preparation before a conversation that has been postponed.

Part of The conversation I keep not having

Exercise · 12 min

Partner Mirror

What you believe you bring and what your partner would probably say.

Part of What kind of partner am I

Exercise · 12 min

My Real Network

Names the people who are actually in your life and when you last spoke.

Part of Who is actually in my life

Exercise · 10 min

Rebuild My Circle

Turns wanting more people into three specific, small, plausible moves.

Part of Rebuilding a circle

Exercise · 12 min

Care Without Disappearing

Organises care so the person providing it remains visible in their own life.

Part of Caring for an ageing parent

Exercise · 14 min

Stay / Change / Leave

Three real options examined at the same level of detail.

Part of Should I leave

Exercise · 12 min

CV Stress Test

Reads a CV the way a hiring manager reads it, in under a minute.

Part of CV stress test

Exercise · 10 min

What Is Work For?

Names what this job is actually being asked to provide.

Part of Is this just a job?

Exercise · 10 min

Real Cost of Work

Counts the hours, travel, recovery and attention a job takes, not only the salary it pays.

Part of What is this job actually costing me

Exercise · 12 min

Work Fit

Matches conditions you work well in against the work you are considering.

Part of What kind of work fits me now

Exercise · 8 min

Career Gap Reframer

Turns a gap into one honest sentence you can say without flinching.

Part of Returning to work

Exercise · 12 min

Redundancy Reset

First fortnight after redundancy: money, admin, story and people.

Part of Made redundant

Exercise · 12 min

Manager Mirror

What your team would say about you, tested against what you would say.

Part of Am I a good manager

Exercise · 10 min

Worth vs Market

Separates what your time is worth to you from what the market currently pays for it.

Part of Money and time

Exercise · 12 min

Should This Exist?

The idea, the person it is for and whether it needs to exist at all.

Part of Should I start something

Exercise · 14 min

Business Reality Check

Revenue, cost, price and the arithmetic that has to hold.

Part of Is this idea real

Exercise · 10 min

Demand Evidence Ladder

Grades demand evidence from encouragement up to money paid.

Part of Does anybody else care

Exercise · 12 min

Failure Before Failure

A pre mortem written before the consequential decision is made.

Part of Is this idea real

Exercise · 10 min

Define Enough

Enough is the number that would let you stop chasing more. Write it down, with the life it buys, so it stops moving.

Part of Now that there is money

Exercise · 10 min

Body Evidence Check

A week of plain observation before any conclusion about health.

Part of Can my body sustain this life

Exercise · 10 min

Recovery Reality Check

Records sleep, energy and recovery across a week rather than a bad night.

Part of Energy, sleep and recovery

Exercise · 10 min

Alive Moments

Two weeks of noticing the moments that actually register.

Part of What makes me feel alive

Exercise · 8 min

What Actually Restores Me?

Tests what is called rest against what leaves you better afterwards.

Part of Rest

Exercise · 6 min

Curiosity Trail

A short, unserious record of what you followed this week.

Part of What am I still curious about

Exercise · 12 min

Change / Influence / Carry

Three columns for a situation that will not resolve neatly.

Part of What can I change and what must I carry

Exercise · 12 min

Failure Post-Mortem

What happened, what was decided and what was only visible afterwards.

Part of Failure, examined

Exercise · 8 min

What I Miss

Writing space for grief. No scoring, no progress, nothing to finish.

Part of Grief

Exercise · 10 min

Where My Time Is Going

An honest look at where the weeks are currently spent.

Part of What changes when time is finite

Exercise · 10 min

Not From Zero

What is already carried into the next attempt.

Part of Starting again

Exercise · 8 min

Next, Not Forever

One next step, sized as a next step rather than a life sentence.

Part of Leaving education

Exercise · 10 min

Build My Life Here

Routines, places and people that make a new city into a life.

Part of Building a life away from home

Exercise · 10 min

Ordinary Tuesday

See what living there would actually look like on a normal Tuesday.

Part of Where should I live

Exercise · 10 min

Tuesday Without Work

The week after work, hour by hour, before it arrives.

Part of What replaces work

Exercise · 10 min

Future Evidence Audit

The future your current behaviour is preparing for, whether or not you chose it.

Part of The future I am preparing for

Exercise · 10 min

Without My Name On It

What you would still do if nobody knew it was you.

Part of What do I want to leave behind

Exercise · 10 min

Ripple Map

Names the people who are actually better off because of how you live.

Part of Who benefits from my life besides me

Exercise · 10 min

What Is Money For?

Separates what money is being used to buy from what it is being used to avoid.

Part of What does money mean to me?