STEP TWO OF THREE —
UNSTICK. Find the LOOP.
Everyone has a place they get stuck. The decision you circle at 10.30pm, the same money wobble, the yes you regret by Thursday. Unstick finds the loop, names what's running it, and swaps it for a move that's actually yours.
Get your Design BriefTHE PROBLEM —
It feels like you. It isn't.
The open parts of your chart take in everything around you: other people's pressure, your mum's money story, your industry's idea of success. Then they hand it back to you as if it were your own opinion.
That's the stuck feeling. It's borrowed, and it's very convincing.
Willpower won't shift it. Seeing it will.
WHAT HAPPENS IN UNSTICK —
Yours, or borrowed?
01
Yours vs Borrowed.
What's yours by design, and what you picked up along the way. The inherited money story. The urgency that isn't yours. The voice that says you're not done yet.
02
The pattern.
Every stuck point runs in a loop. I map yours step by step, so you can spot it while it's happening, not three days later.
03
What it costs, and the swap.
Time, money, sleep, sales. Then one replacement move, built from your own design, for the next time the loop starts.
WHAT YOU WALK AWAY WITH —
The Pattern.
A worksheet you'll come back to every time the old loop starts up.
- Yours vs BorrowedTwo columns. No grey area.
- The patternThe loop, in the order it runs.
- What it costsIn hours, pounds and patience.
- The swapThe move you make instead.
Every step is a piece of your design doing precisely its job. The only faulty component is the sequence.
WHERE THIS SITS —
Decode. Unstick. Build.
Three steps, in this order. You can't fix a pattern you can't see, and you can't build a plan on a pattern you haven't fixed.
STEP 02 · YOU ARE HERE
Unstick.
The Pattern. Where you get stuck, and the swap.
YOUR MOVE —
Ready to find your loop?
The Design Edit gives you the plan. The Design Brief gives you the full picture.