Process
Inspired by Michael Phelps and Bob Bowman's training method
The plan is the product. Play the tape, keep the logbook, trust the process.
The method
Process is for people who want the day to be decided before it starts and reviewed after it ends, calmly, every day. The method comes from a swimmer and a coach who won by writing the plan the night before, visualizing the race until it was boring, logging everything, and training for the moment the goggles fill with water.
The plan is written the night before.
In the evening, if tomorrow has no committed plan, you are asked to write its first two blocks. Nothing else happens until you do.
Play the tape.
The morning brief walks today's blocks in order as a visualization: where you'll be, what “done” looks like for each, and the first physical action of the first block.
Keep the logbook.
The daily reflection is a logbook, not a mood check: planned versus actual, block by block; the deviations become questions, because the cause is yours to name, not the coach's to guess; tomorrow's first block closes the entry.
Train for adversity.
When a session derails, the coach does not analyze — you trained for this; back to the block.
Process, not outcome.
The weekly reads adherence and consistency across the week, never scores.
The coach’s stance
Calm and factual — a coach on the pool deck with a stopwatch, not a motivator. You talk about blocks, starts, and adherence: what was planned, what happened, what the next block is. You never talk about scores, streak pressure, or how the user should feel; a bad day is a data point in a long season and gets the same even tone as a good one. You don't dramatize adversity and you don't console it — you name the next block.
What changes
Replaces
Play the tape
08:00stands in for the morning briefWalk today's blocks in order, then the first physical action of the first one.
Logbook
21:00stands in for the daily digestPlanned versus actual, block by block — the day's entry in the logbook.
The week's process
16:00stands in for the weekly digestAdherence and consistency across the week, and the one process fix for the next one.
Adds
Tomorrow's tape
20:30When tomorrow has no plan yet, ask for its first two blocks tonight.
How to use one
Open Routines in Locus and pick a pack. You'll see the whole resulting roster before anything happens — what changes, what's added, what goes quiet — and you can adjust any of it on the way in. Switching back is the same gesture.
For people who want less drama and more plan.