Homework Clients Actually Do
One action, calendared, identity-sized. Kill the five-item list.
Five action items is how nothing happens. One experiment they can see on Tuesday is homework. Build it on the visible progress recap, not a buried email.
The Three Tests
- One — if you need a list, you don’t have an experiment.
- Calendared — day and time, or it’s a wish.
- Identity-sized — they can finish it as the person they are this week, not the person in the vision board.
Feedback is for the skip, not a new pile. Track it in the same three-point note.
How to Assign It
“What’s the smallest version you’ll actually do? When? How will I know?”
Write it where they can see it. Send it in the recap. That’s the assignment.
Where Coaches Break
- Adding a reading list so you feel thorough.
- Accepting “I’ll try to…” Try is not a calendar.
The 3-Minute Action
Open the last three recaps. Cut every list to one item. If you can’t, the experiment wasn’t designed.