Topics
The essays are grouped under five labels. The grouping is practical rather than theoretical: these are the five places where the same questions keep coming back, and an essay sits under the one it spends most of its length on.
Sessions 2 essays
How a structured conversation works, what it can reach that private thinking cannot, and what the person being coached has to bring to it.
- What a coaching conversation actually does 28 July 2026
- How to be coached 19 May 2026
Goals 2 essays
Setting an aim that fits the week you actually have, and knowing what to do when the aim stops moving.
- Goals that survive contact with your week 14 July 2026
- What to do when you stall 21 April 2026
Habits 2 essays
The practical mechanics of repeated behaviour: friction, defaults, entry points, and why willpower is the least reliable part of the system.
- Habits are a design problem 16 June 2026
- Motivation is the wrong lever 2 June 2026
Attention 2 essays
Where the hours go, what the voice in your head is reporting, and how to look at both without immediately trying to fix them.
- The honest audit 30 June 2026
- The inner critic has a job 5 May 2026
Decisions 1 essay
Choices that resist ordinary comparison, especially the ones where every option available to you is genuinely good.
- Choosing between two good lives 7 April 2026