Step 01 of 06

Your replacement belief.

Copy it out of your workbook, in your own handwriting's words. Exactly as you wrote it, not a tidied-up version.

The sentence you wrote

If you do not have one yet, stop here and go and do steps 03 through 07 in the Hidden Script Workbook first. This tool cannot write it for you and it should not try.

Step 02 of 06

What it would have you do.

If that sentence were simply true, what would you do that the old one has been stopping? Go big here. We cut it down in a minute.

The thing the old belief has been blocking

Step 03 of 06

Cut it down to one move.

Now shrink it to something you could finish in one sitting. The email, rather than the campaign. The call, rather than the relationship.

The move

That reads like a project

A project gives the old belief something it can stop every day for six weeks without ever being caught doing it. Name the first single sitting inside it instead. Not "launch the podcast." Record five minutes on your phone at the kitchen table.

Now check it against all five. If you cannot tick every box, the move is wrong rather than you.

One sitting.I could finish this in a single sitting, ideally under an hour.
Entirely mine.Nobody else has to say yes for this to count as done.
Done or not done.At the end I can say which, without arguing with myself about it.
It has teeth.Reading this back makes me slightly uneasy. If it did not, the old belief would never have bothered stopping it.
Today-sized.This is named at the size I would actually begin today, not the size it becomes later.

Step 04 of 06

The fallback.

For the days the full move feels too big. This is not permission to shrink. It is what keeps a bad Tuesday from becoming a bad month.

Your move

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The smaller version, ten minutes or under

That one does not count

Researching, reading, planning, preparing and thinking about it are all things the old belief is perfectly happy to let you do. The fallback has to point the same direction as the move and still cost you something. Same muscle, smaller weight.

Ten minutes or under.I could do this on the worst day of the week.
Same direction.It moves the same thing forward rather than orbiting it.
Still uncomfortable.It is smaller, not safer.

Step 05 of 06

A day and a time.

Not "this week." The old programme does not fight the action, it fights the specificity, because a vague plan is the one it can kill later without anybody noticing.

Date

Start time

How long

minutes

Have a look at that slot

Late Friday, and anything sitting at the end of a long day, is where good intentions go to be rescheduled. Put it somewhere you will still have something left.

Pick the hour you are most likely to be at your desk and least likely to be rescued by something urgent.

Step 06 of 06

One person who knows.

Optional, and it roughly doubles the odds. Somebody besides you knowing what you said you would do is the cheapest accountability there is.

Who are you going to tell?

Their name goes into the calendar note so you see it when the alert fires.

The Move

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The Fallback

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What It Proves

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On a phone this opens straight into your calendar app. On a computer it saves a small file you open once. Either way the event carries a reminder thirty minutes before, with your fallback in the notes so it is there on the day you need it.