The Buddy System
A T minus 90 guide
Ninety days, mapped.
Pick a start date and see the whole mission at once: launch day, the halfway mark and every weekly debrief. Then put the dates in your calendar and write your two quests on a card.
Your two quests optional
One for work, one for life. Two is the whole trick: the quarter you planned nine things is the one where none of them happened.
Why ninety days
Long enough
Thirteen weeks is enough to finish something real: a draft, a habit, a race, a portfolio. A month is often too short to get past the awkward start.
Short enough
You can see the end from the start, so the finish line stays real. A year-long goal is easy to postpone; launch day in January isn't.
A minimum, not a target
The daily minimum is the smallest thing that still counts, so a bad day is a small day rather than a missed one. Big days happen on their own once you're showing up.
Let the countdown keep you honest
T minus 90 counts down from T−90 to launch day, takes a check-in in under a minute, and asks for a short debrief at the end of every week.