The free Reset Workbook walks you through the exact process I use with private clients. One afternoon of honest answers and you'll know which thing to fix first.
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The real problem
Three patterns come up in almost every first session. If two of them describe your last month, the workbook was written for you.
Your calendar is full and your progress is flat. Motion quietly replaced movement and you can't point to when it happened.
New plan Monday, abandoned by Thursday. You've decided that means you lack discipline. Usually it means the plan was built wrong.
Getting clear on the exit is easy. Getting clear on the destination is the work almost nobody does alone.
by Lucy James
What you're getting
Not a motivational PDF. It's the same worksheet set my paying clients start with in week one.
Who's behind this
I spent eleven years in corporate HR before burning out completely at 34. Rebuilding from that, badly at first and then properly, is what turned into this work.
Since then I've coached more than 400 people through the same reset: founders, new parents, people two decades into a career they picked at 22. This workbook is the first thing I hand every one of them, because it's the part you can do without me.
— Lucy
Don't take my word for it
I downloaded this on a Sunday night in a mood and fully expected it to be another PDF I'd never open. It's not long. Took me about forty minutes.
The energy audit is what got me. I've always said I don't have time, and it turns out eleven hours a week were going to things nobody had asked me to do. Seeing it in my own handwriting was rough.
Skeptical is putting it mildly. I've sat through two leadership programs at work and both were basically slides.
This is a worksheet, which sounds worse and is somehow better. Question four made me put the pen down for a while. I booked the call about a week later, which I assume was the point.
Being honest, I only did three of the four exercises. I'm bad at finishing things like this.
Even so, the Sunday ritual has stuck for about four months now. Same three questions, usually on the couch before bed. Nothing dramatic changed. I just stopped waking up already behind, and my partner noticed before I did.
Downloaded it in February after a genuinely bad January. Teaching had stopped being something I liked and I couldn't tell if that was the job or me.
I thought I knew where my time went. I was off by a lot. Seeing it on paper was the first time in a while the problem felt solvable rather than just who I am.
I printed it twice. First time I filled it in the way I thought I was supposed to, then I looked at it and realized I'd written down a version of my life that isn't real.
Second pass was uncomfortable and much more useful. I'd suggest doing it somewhere nobody's going to read over your shoulder.
I downloaded this on a Sunday night in a mood and fully expected it to be another PDF I'd never open. It's not long. Took me about forty minutes.
The energy audit is what got me. I've always said I don't have time, and it turns out eleven hours a week were going to things nobody had asked me to do. Seeing it in my own handwriting was rough.
Skeptical is putting it mildly. I've sat through two leadership programs at work and both were basically slides.
This is a worksheet, which sounds worse and is somehow better. Question four made me put the pen down for a while. I booked the call about a week later, which I assume was the point.
Being honest, I only did three of the four exercises. I'm bad at finishing things like this.
Even so, the Sunday ritual has stuck for about four months now. Same three questions, usually on the couch before bed. Nothing dramatic changed. I just stopped waking up already behind, and my partner noticed before I did.
Downloaded it in February after a genuinely bad January. Teaching had stopped being something I liked and I couldn't tell if that was the job or me.
I thought I knew where my time went. I was off by a lot. Seeing it on paper was the first time in a while the problem felt solvable rather than just who I am.
I printed it twice. First time I filled it in the way I thought I was supposed to, then I looked at it and realized I'd written down a version of my life that isn't real.
Second pass was uncomfortable and much more useful. I'd suggest doing it somewhere nobody's going to read over your shoulder.
My wife found it printed on the kitchen counter and asked what it was, which is how I ended up explaining out loud that I'd been unhappy for about two years.
So, mixed feelings about the workbook. It works. It's just not a relaxing evening.
I run a two-person shop, so an hour of my time is real money and I don't hand it over easily.
The One Thing filter paid for itself immediately. I killed a project I'd been dragging along for eight months out of stubbornness. Revenue went up because I stopped being spread across nine things.
Honest review. I didn't enjoy this. It asks you things you've been not-answering on purpose.
But I've spent a lot more on an MBA I barely use, and this was free and took an afternoon. Do with that what you will.
Did the whole thing on a flight to Newark with a pen I borrowed from the guy next to me.
The 90-day map is the part I still use. Three milestones, one page. It's on my fridge and I've moved apartments since and it came with me.
Sent it to my brother before I'd finished it myself, which tells you something.
What I appreciated is that it doesn't try to sell you the coaching on every page. There's one mention at the end. I ended up booking anyway, but I didn't feel handled, and after the year I've had that mattered.
My wife found it printed on the kitchen counter and asked what it was, which is how I ended up explaining out loud that I'd been unhappy for about two years.
So, mixed feelings about the workbook. It works. It's just not a relaxing evening.
I run a two-person shop, so an hour of my time is real money and I don't hand it over easily.
The One Thing filter paid for itself immediately. I killed a project I'd been dragging along for eight months out of stubbornness. Revenue went up because I stopped being spread across nine things.
Honest review. I didn't enjoy this. It asks you things you've been not-answering on purpose.
But I've spent a lot more on an MBA I barely use, and this was free and took an afternoon. Do with that what you will.
Did the whole thing on a flight to Newark with a pen I borrowed from the guy next to me.
The 90-day map is the part I still use. Three milestones, one page. It's on my fridge and I've moved apartments since and it came with me.
Sent it to my brother before I'd finished it myself, which tells you something.
What I appreciated is that it doesn't try to sell you the coaching on every page. There's one mention at the end. I ended up booking anyway, but I didn't feel handled, and after the year I've had that mattered.
Last thing
You can drift through them, or spend one afternoon with this workbook and point them somewhere. Free, instant, no call required.
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