Goals & structure

Life Planning & Goals


Training is the easy part. Fitting it into a real life is not.

The planning layer around the training — goal setting that survives contact with a real calendar, and the structure to keep it standing when the week goes sideways.

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Almost nobody fails at training because the program was wrong. They fail because week eleven contained a work trip, a sick child and a deadline, and the plan had no version of itself that survived that.

The planning layer exists for week eleven. It sets goals you can actually measure, builds a week around the calendar you genuinely have, and defines in advance what training looks like when everything goes sideways — so the answer is never simply stopping.

What’s involved

The structure around the training.


  • Goals set in outcomes and behaviours, with dates and a way to measure them
  • A weekly structure built around your actual commitments, not an ideal week
  • Minimum-effective plans for travel, deadlines, illness and school holidays
  • Regular reviews where the plan changes instead of you being asked to try harder
  • Habits sequenced so you are building one thing at a time, not eight
The approach

Built for a full calendar.


01

Goals that can be measured

Outcome goals and behaviour goals, each with a date and a way to know whether it happened. Vague intentions are why most plans quietly expire.

02

Your real week, not an ideal one

We build around the commitments that already exist. A plan that only works in a perfect week is a plan that works roughly four weeks a year.

03

A defined minimum

Travel, illness, deadlines and school holidays each get a pre-agreed minimum-effective version. You never have to decide under pressure.

04

Reviews that change the plan

At every check-in the plan is what adapts. Being asked to try harder is not a coaching strategy.

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One thing at a time

Habits sequenced, not stacked.


The fastest way to change nothing is to change eight things at once. Habits are introduced in order, each one given enough time to become automatic before the next arrives.

It feels slower for about a month. It is dramatically faster by month six.

Who it’s for

You are capable and busy, you have done this before, and the thing that always breaks is the week — not the workout.


Training is the easy part. This is the part that makes it last.