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Carrying the idea into your week

Short, low-risk exercises, meant to be done alone and on paper. None of them is a psychological assessment or a clinical instrument: they are ways of looking at something with more structure than thinking it through in your head gives you.

Worksheet10 minutes

The smallest-task sheet

A one-page sheet for breaking down something you keep putting off — the practical way out of procrastination — until you reach the action you can actually take today.

  1. Write the task down exactly as it appears in your head.
  2. Write it again, this time as something that could be finished in a day.
  3. Write it a third time, as something that could be done in two minutes.
  4. Do that third version.
  5. Note what you felt before starting, and what you felt afterwards.
HabitsDecisions
Exercise2 min a day · 7 days

Seven-day procrastination log

A short log for noticing when procrastination shows up and what comes just before it. It is not an assessment or a diagnosis.

  1. For seven days, write down one thing a day that you decided not to do.
  2. Note the time, and what you were doing immediately before.
  3. Put one word to what you felt in that moment.
  4. On the seventh day, read the seven lines together and look for what repeats.
HabitsEmotions
Exercise20 minutes

A map of your beliefs about money

A written guide for identifying the phrases about money you learned before you were able to argue with them.

  1. Write down three phrases about money you heard repeatedly as a child.
  2. Mark which ones still sound true to you.
  3. For each one still active, find a case from your own life that contradicts it.
  4. Write the version you actually want to hold today.
MoneyGrowth
Guide15 minutes

Five questions before you decide

A short guide to use before a decision you have been postponing for a while.

  1. What exactly am I deciding, in one sentence?
  2. What genuinely matters to me in this area?
  3. What does each option leave out?
  4. Which absence could I live with for a year?
  5. What would I do to make up for what I leave out?
DecisionsFear

Downloads still being built. The exercises are shown in full on this page. Downloadable versions will be added once the final template exists. None of them is a clinical assessment.

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