Your focus — up to five at a time
Next up in setup
Setup — do these once
Finite, completable, and mostly boring. Every one of these is a leak you're plugging. When this list is done, it stays done.
Rhythm — do these forever
These never get checked off permanently. They get done, or they don't, week after week. Star up to five as your current focus — those are what the weekly check-in asks about and what lands in your calendar.
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Week streak — consecutive weeks you hit at least half your focus
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New matters logged since you started
Setup progress
One-time items. This bar should reach 100% and stay there.
0 of 0 done
The foundation items are the highest-leverage work on this list, and the only ones that ever truly finish.
Consistency
One square per week of your year. Darker means you hit more of your focus items that week. Gaps are information, not failure — look for what the empty stretches have in common.
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Actions and new matters
Your consistency against your new business, month by month. This is correlation, not attribution — it can't tell you a specific case came from a specific action. What it can show you is whether the months you worked the system look different from the months you didn't.
Actions completed
New matters
Log new matters
Once a month, thirty seconds. Where the work came from matters more than the count.
Why any of this works
The reasoning behind the actions. Read it once to orient yourself, then come back when a task stops making sense or you need a reason to keep going.