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Every practice in the library, in one list. Narrow it by how long you have, who it is written for, and where you are right now.
Use a timer you can see rather than one you have to read. A dial where the coloured part shrinks tells you how much is left at a glance, with no arithmetic in the way.
Set it for the length of the task, or for the length you can stand, and leave it where your eye falls. A digital countdown asks you to work out what…
When a young person tells you something in their own blunt words, meet them there. Laughing together buys more trust than a well judged correction ever will.
Correct the language and you sort yourself into the same bin as every other disappointed adult, and after that the useful information stops arriving.…
Put something you genuinely want at the end of the chain, and keep it where you can see it. A reward far off in the future is much the same as no reward at all.
Name it before you begin and write it at the top of the page. Keep it close: this evening rather than next term. It does not have to be impressive.…
Writing things down is not evidence that your memory has failed. It is what happens once there is more in your life than one head can hold.
Most people who refuse a system are protecting something: the sense of being capable, of not being the sort of person who needs help with this. Argue…
Looking for a whole subject rather than a single practice? Start from the nine areas.
Putting something in the diary does not guarantee it happens. It gives it a chance it did not have before. That is the honest promise, and it is still worth having.
Expect a fair few blocks to pass unused, particularly in the first month. That is not the system failing, it is the system doing what it does, which…