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Worksheet 10.1 · Module 10: The Standard · Final Module

Building Your Standard

The decisions already made, named precisely, written as the floor.

The Standard is not an aspiration. It is a decision already made. This worksheet collects the decisions from all ten modules of this course and writes them as the floor that holds everything you have built.

The language of a Standard

A Standard is written in the language of decision, not intention. "I no longer build from performance." "I have decided to protect the window." Not "I am working on" or "I aspire to." The decision has been made. This worksheet records it.

Section 1 of 5
Collect the Decisions
Go back through all ten modules of this course. What have you specifically decided? Write them all here before editing any of them.
The full inventory. Every decision made across ten modules — about identity, the offer, the brand, time, energy, the ask, the evidence. Write them all down first.
Section 2 of 5
Write the Standard Statements
Each decision becomes an "I no longer" or "I have decided" statement — and names what that decision makes possible.
Standard Statement 01
This makes possible:
Standard Statement 02
This makes possible:
Standard Statement 03
This makes possible:
Standard Statement 04
This makes possible:
Standard Statement 05
This makes possible:
Standard Statement 06
This makes possible:
Standard Statement 07
This makes possible:
Section 3 of 5
The Three Most Foundational
Of everything you've named, which three decisions are the ones that hold everything else? If these three hold, the rest holds.
The most foundational:
The second most foundational:
The third most foundational:
Section 4 of 5
What Each Foundational Decision Makes Possible
The Standard is not only about what you stop. It is about the space that opens when you stop.
Decision 1 makes possible:
Decision 2 makes possible:
Decision 3 makes possible:
Section 5 of 5
The Standard — Written in One Paragraph
Your decisions, in your voice, as the person you have decided to be. Not an aspiration. A statement of identity.
The Standard
Write it in your own language. The decisions, together, as the floor. This is who you have decided to be.
Worksheet 10.1 — Completion Marker
This worksheet is complete when The Standard is written — named, specific, in the language of decision:

"My three most foundational decisions: ___. Together they make possible: ___."

Worksheet 10.2 · Module 10: The Standard

The Standard Under Pressure

What tests it. What holding looks like. The return practice designed before you need it.

The Standard will be tested — not by failure, but by the convenience of the old pattern. This worksheet names the specific test, designs the recognition signal, and builds the return practice so it is ready before you need it.

What holding looks like

Holding the Standard does not mean the negotiation disappears. It means you recognize it sooner. Most of the time, holding looks like returning — to the decision, to the work, to yourself. Again and again. That returning is the practice.

Section 1 of 5
The Greatest Test
What specifically is most likely to pull you away from your Standard? Not the dramatic scenario — the everyday one.
Describe the specific type of situation that most consistently pulls you back toward the old negotiation:
The request that feels urgent but belongs to someone else. The opportunity that looks good but pulls away from what matters. The familiar role being offered again. The distraction wearing the costume of responsibility. Name it specifically.
What makes it seductive — what does it look like or feel like that makes it easy to say yes?
Section 2 of 5
The Recognition Signal
What will you feel or notice that tells you the negotiation has arrived — before you've already engaged it automatically?
What is the physical or emotional signal that tells you the old negotiation is active — the specific feeling in your body, the specific quality of the thinking?
Not what you do in response — what you feel or notice. The early signal, before the automatic behavior has already started.
What thought usually arrives with the test? The specific internal voice?
Section 3 of 5
The Return Practice
Design this before you need it. The smallest specific action that constitutes returning to the decision.
"When the negotiation arrives and I recognize it, I return by:"
Not fighting the pull — returning to what you decided. One specific action. What does returning look like for you?
"The smallest action that means I came back to the Standard:"
Section 4 of 5
A Recent Holding Moment
When have you held the Standard recently — even imperfectly? What did it look like?
Describe a moment when you recognized the pull and returned to the decision instead:
What made it possible in that moment?
Section 5 of 5
The Holding Statement
The specific words — for yourself — when the test arrives and you choose the Standard.
"When the test arrives, I say to myself:"
Not a motivational phrase — the actual words that bring you back. The reminder of who you decided to be before this moment of pressure arrived.
Worksheet 10.2 — Completion Marker
This worksheet is complete when the return practice is designed and the holding statement is written:

"My greatest test: ___. My recognition signal: ___. My return practice: ___."

Worksheet 10.3 · Module 10: The Standard · Final Worksheet

The Life You're Building

Not a completely different person. The same client without the constant negotiation.

This last worksheet describes how you operate once your Standard holds. Write it as a factual description, not a wish. Answer each question about yourself in the present tense.

The distinction

You are no longer building work that looks right from the outside. You are building work that is built from who you actually are. That is what Permission Granted™ makes possible — not a different you, a fully expressed one.

Section 1 of 5
Who You Are Now
Describe yourself in the present tense. What do you do, how do you show up, and what would someone watching you notice?
Skip words like confident and successful. Answer these three instead: How do you start your workday? What do you say when someone asks you to work outside your Standard? What would someone notice about you now that they would not have noticed a year ago?
Section 2 of 5
What You Stopped Doing
The three things you have stopped doing.
You no longer put yourself last —
Name what you used to give away first — your time, your rate, your preference — and no longer do.
You no longer shrink your ideas —
Name something you used to talk yourself out of before starting, and now do.
You no longer wait for permission —
Name a decision you used to wait for someone else to approve, and now make yourself.
Section 3 of 5
What Has Become Possible
What can you do, build, or ask for now that you could not before your Standard was in place?
Name one thing that is possible now. Not because your circumstances changed — because your decisions changed what you let yourself attempt.
Section 4 of 5
The Gap That Has Narrowed
How much smaller is the distance between how you work privately and what is visible publicly? Describe what closed it.
What is visible in the world now — in the work, the visibility, the decisions — that wasn't there before?
Complete: "Your work reflects your. Your visibility reflects your. Specifically, this means: ___"
Section 5 of 5
The Honest Description of Your Life
Not the aspirational version. The specific, grounded, real one. What does it look like, feel like, function like from the inside?
Write it as if you are describing someone you know. What does your Monday look like? What does you no longer do at the end of the day? How does you make decisions? What is true about the life that is being built? Be honest, not aspirational.
Worksheet 10.3 — Completion Marker
This worksheet is complete when the client on the other side is described specifically and honestly — not as a fantasy, as a direction:

"You are ___. You have stopped ___. What has become possible: ___."

Permission Granted™ · Complete
Build the body of work you would create if you stopped abandoning yourself in the process.
Ten modules. Three phases. One decision.
The identity is excavated. The offer is designed. The brand matches who you are. The language is yours. The architecture exists. The capacity is protected. The evidence is building. The invitation has been extended. The Standard holds it all.

You have not abandoned yourself in this process.

Permission has always been yours to grant. It still is.
Go build.