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Professional
Building STAR Interview Stories
Prepare three STAR stories (Situation—Task—Action—Result) that cover 80% of behavioral interview questions.
Professional
Start-Stop-Continue Self
Each month, write 3 behaviors to start, 3 to stop, 3 to continue.
Leadership
Stop-Start-Continue Team Review
45 min per quarter: what to stop, start, continue. Simplest team evolution tool.
Professional
Resume Bullets STAR
Convert 5 resume bullets from "duties" to Situation-Task-Action-Result outcomes.
Administrative
Define the North Star Metric
One number summarizing your product's value to customer — every decision serves it.
Leadership
Defining the North Star Metric
Pick one metric that measures the value delivered to your customer, anchoring every decision to its success.
Digital & AI
Focus Start/End Rituals
3-min start ritual + 3-min end ritual = brain signal "now focus / now done".
Digital & AI
Iterative Refinement, Not Restart
Instead of rewriting the prompt, say "this part good. this part fix to X". 4 rounds = perfect output.
Social
Starting the Financial-Transparency Talk
Open the sensitive money talk with a values question first, not a direct numbers spreadsheet.
Administrative
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Silent Reading Meeting Start
Open the meeting with five minutes of silent reading of a written memo instead of slides.
Psychological
Two-Minute Rule
Any new habit, start with 2-minute version — until established.
Parenting
Teen Sleep-Hygiene Advocacy
The teen brain needs 8-10 hours of sleep, but early school start and nighttime phone use steal it — a dual intervention.
Psychological
Breath Counting to 10
Count breaths 1-10. If lost, restart. Simple beginner meditation.
Professional
Backwards Planning
Start from goal end-date, draw steps backwards to today.
Psychological
One Committed Action
No paralyzing "big plan" — one tangible action aligned with your value within 24 hrs.
Professional
High Anchor Strategy
Open higher than expected — becomes anchor for negotiation.
Professional
BHAG Vision
Set ONE Big Hairy Audacious Goal for next 10-15 years that drives daily decisions.
Professional
Tiny Habit Stacking
Don't target "meditate 30 min" — target "one breath after coffee".
Professional
Kawasaki 10/20/30 Rule
10 slides, 20 minutes, 30pt minimum font — a formula that saves your presentations from clutter and boredom.
Professional
30-Second Elevator Pitch
Prepare a 30-second pitch that describes what you do, for whom, and why it matters — so you never fumble at a chance meeting.
Professional
Work Initiation Ritual
Fixed micro-ritual before each block (coffee, breath, music) primes mind.
Professional
Session Pre-Loading
Open files and prep environment 5 min before block.
Professional
Decision Assumptions
Before any big decision, write 5 assumptions you relied on — test the weakest.
Social
FORD Topics for First Conversations
Use Family-Occupation-Recreation-Dreams as four safe entry doors for any new conversation.
Administrative
ICE Scoring for Initiatives
Score each initiative Impact x Confidence x Ease (1-10 each), execute by score order.
Administrative
One-Page Project Charter
Before any project starts, write a one-page charter answering six core questions.
Administrative
Five Whys for Every Recurring Problem
Don't treat symptoms. Ask why five times to reach the root cause.
Administrative
One-Page Dashboard
Summarize the health of your operation on one page with just five metrics, refreshed weekly.
Administrative
Vanity Metric Audit
Vanity metric always grows and unaffected by decisions — harmful because feels like success.
Administrative
One Number Per Role
Each team member: one number owning their core responsibility this quarter.
Administrative
Wiki Content Seeding Technique
Don't wait for the team to voluntarily fill the wiki — seed 20 initial pages yourself from real past questions.
Leadership
Business Model Canvas
Sketch your business model on nine boxes on a single page to find gaps before launch.
Leadership
Crafting a Big Hairy Audacious Goal (BHAG)
Define one 10-25 year goal so audacious it scares you, uniting leadership around a single ambition.
Leadership
Annual Theme in Two Words
Pick two words that summarize the year's priority, replacing many goals with one shared focus.
Leadership
Stop-Doing List
Instead of a "start-doing" list, build a "stop-doing" list: what activities to cease to free energy for the most important?
Leadership
Experimentation Mindset for Adaptive Problems
There's no ready solution for adaptive problems — treat your next solution as a small learnable experiment, not a final plan that must succeed on the first try.
Leadership
Rapid Prototyping Mindset for Leaders
Before approving any big idea, ask: what's the cheapest, fastest version testable within a week, instead of waiting for a full plan taking months?
Parenting
Visual Morning Checklist
Replace morning reminders with a visual checklist the child checks himself — ends "hurry up!" forever.
Parenting
Anchoring the Reading Habit
Anchor reading to a fixed daily activity (breakfast, car, bedtime) so it requires no decision.
Parenting
Transition-to-Adulthood Planning for a Special-Needs Teen
The transition from a supportive school system to the adult world needs a plan starting in the teen years, not at sudden graduation.
Digital & AI
Real (Not Vanity) LinkedIn Audit
LinkedIn measured by "who contacted with opportunity", not followers or likes.
Digital & AI
Switching to a Privacy-Focused Browser/Search Engine
Try a full week using a browser (Brave/Firefox) and search engine (DuckDuckGo) that reduce tracking by default, and compare the experience.
Psychological
Flexible Perfectionism Ruler
Define "good enough" upfront before starting the task.
Psychological
Funeral Visualization
At your funeral in 50 years, what do you wish people said? Start it today.
Professional
Eat the Frog First
Start your day with the hardest, ugliest task before anything else — nothing scary remains for the rest of the day.
Professional
BLUF Email (Bottom Line Up Front)
Start every email with one sentence containing the bottom line and the ask — recipients reply 3x faster.
Professional
BLUF Writing
Every email/report starts with Bottom Line Up Front: conclusion in first line.
Professional
Pyramid Principle
Start with conclusion, then 3 arguments, then details per argument — top-down.
Social
Time-Limited Visit with Extended Family
Pre-decide a clear start and end time with yourself before any draining family visit.
Social
Empathic Frame
Starting assumption: "people do their best with what they have".
Social
Boundary Against Gossip
When gossip starts, use: "I prefer not to talk about absent people" — close it without lecturing.
Social
Keep 3 Small Promises
Trust is built by small promises kept — start with 3 this week.
Social
Box Breath Before a Talk
4-4-4-4 for 8 cycles — calm focus starts at the breath.
Social
Stop Workplace Gossip
Set a boundary when office gossip starts: "I prefer not to talk about him absent — let's ask him".
Administrative
Three Most Important Tasks (MITs)
Before starting each morning, write three tasks that, alone, would make the day a success.
Administrative
Project Pre-Mortem
Before starting, imagine the project failed in six months and write down why.
Administrative
Zero-Based Budget Every Quarter
Start each quarter at zero and force every line item to re-justify its existence.
Administrative
Backwards Planning From the End Date
Start from delivery day and reverse-engineer what must be ready each week.
Administrative
Pre-Mortem Protocol
Imagine the project failed entirely a year from now; list 7 plausible reasons before starting.
Administrative
BLUF — Bottom Line Up Front
Every work email starts with one sentence: "what I need from you" or "the bottom line".