Do the hard thing

Pick one avoided action that would materially improve professional control and move it into a weekly review cadence.

Going Pro / monthly-project

Why this source matters

Pick one avoided action that would materially improve professional control and move it into a weekly review cadence.

Consulting bridge

Use consulting when the monthly project exposes a leadership bottleneck, system constraint, or implementation gap.

Going Pro monthly project

Do the hard thing

Pick one avoided action that would materially improve professional control and move it into a weekly review cadence.

Core question

What necessary action am I avoiding, and what would a clean five-minute start make visible?

Required artifacts

  • Avoidance diagnosis
  • Five-minute starting action
  • If/then plan

Monthly review prompts

  • What did I avoid this week?
  • What did the avoidance protect?
  • What five-minute start created evidence?
  • What will be visible by next Friday?

Dashboard handoff

  • Run Hard Things Navigator, save the result, then review the next clean move in Weekly Pro Review.

Weekly review connection

  • Use the same avoided action for four weekly reviews so the pattern becomes visible instead of reset each week.

Next action

  • Open the recommended tool, create the required artifact, and carry the result into the next Weekly Pro Review.

Recommended tools

  • Going Pro Dashboard
  • Hard Things Navigator

Core claim

  • What necessary action am I avoiding, and what would a clean five-minute start make visible?

Tool implication

  • Run Hard Things Navigator, save the result, then review the next clean move in Weekly Pro Review.

Best use in BLKBox

  • Run Hard Things Navigator, save the result, then review the next clean move in Weekly Pro Review.

Lead owner prompt

  • What necessary action am I avoiding, and what would a clean five-minute start make visible?

Questions for owner

  • What necessary action am I avoiding, and what would a clean five-minute start make visible?
  • What did I avoid this week?
  • What did the avoidance protect?
  • What five-minute start created evidence?
  • What will be visible by next Friday?

How it connects to the tools

  • Run Hard Things Navigator, save the result, then review the next clean move in Weekly Pro Review.

Review prompts

  • What did I avoid this week?
  • What did the avoidance protect?
  • What five-minute start created evidence?
  • What will be visible by next Friday?
  • Artifact to produce: Avoidance diagnosis
  • Artifact to produce: Five-minute starting action
  • Artifact to produce: If/then plan

Key themes

  • monthly project
  • Going Pro
  • What did I avoid this week?
  • What did the avoidance protect?

Use cases

  • monthly review
  • dashboard
  • tool prep

Recommended before this tool

  • Going Pro Dashboard
  • Hard Things Navigator

Recommended after this tool

  • Going Pro Dashboard

Suggested placement

  • Going Pro dashboard
  • monthly review
  • resource library