Program 02 — Structure

You start full of energy, you make a plan and the first few weeks go well. Then comes a busy week, a setback or a day when you don’t feel like it, and before you know it your plan has stalled. Structure is about what is still standing at that point.

You learn to build behaviour that rests on simple rules, a fixed rhythm and an environment that helps you, so that it still works when your motivation has run out. Everything turns on one idea: you are not as good as your best day, but as good as your ordinary day.

The lessons don’t come from a textbook but from the lives of entrepreneurs who built structure for the days when things didn’t come easily, including Paul Tudor Jones, Sara Blakely, Ingvar Kamprad, Yvon Chouinard, Pieter Zwart and Adriaan Mol. Every lesson begins with a real moment from their story. Then you read what you can take from it for your own situation, and what you do with it today.

How it works

• 25 lessons in 5 parts: one lesson a day, about ten minutes’ reading.

• Each lesson: a real moment, the lesson, why it works this way, an assignment and two questions to reflect on.

• At the end you turn your key insights into your own rules for structure: short agreements with yourself that you keep using.

The five parts

• Part I · The fragility of behaviour

• Part II · The building blocks of structure

• Part III · Consistency in practice

• Part IV · Protecting your system

• Part V · Structure as identity

Who is this programme for?

For entrepreneurs, the self-employed and anyone building something alongside work or study who finds that good intentions give up after a few weeks. For anyone who wants it to work on an ordinary Tuesday too.

Not a course and not theory, but the step before: how you think, choose and keep going.

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This programme was written independently by FOREFACT. The entrepreneurs named and their companies are not involved in this publication, have not approved it and are not affiliated with it. This programme is not therapy and not personal advice.