FIG Method | Focus. Implement. Grow.

The FIG Method

A 12-week method for deciding what matters now, putting it into practice, and learning from what happens next.

Direction first. Action second.

Your hero’s journey starts with clarity. Before you set any goals, the opening pages of the Field Guide ask what you want from this chapter of your life and why it matters now. Most FIG cohort alumni named this as the most valuable part of FIG.

“The rest doesn’t work unless you’re clear about what you need to do. You can’t be vague.”

Sam Billingham, Day Trader

The method

Three practices carry you through the 12 weeks.

Direction

Focus: choose what matters now.

With clarity, you narrow your ambition to one main goal and two that support it, so your attention is completely dialled in.

Practice

Implement: do the work that moves you.

Each week you take action according to your plan and build habits that support who you are becoming now.

Perspective

Grow: reflect, refine and keep going.

Your weekly review shows you what is working, so you adjust the approach instead of abandoning the goal.

Why 12 weeks

Long enough to create change. Short enough to stay focussed.

Twelve weeks gives you enough time to move beyond intention and build evidence through action.

It gives the next chapter a defined beginning, a direction, moments to reflect, and a point at which you can look back and see what changed.

“Initially I thought the 12 weeks was limiting. My compulsion was to write huge goals. But having to ask ‘What can I actually accomplish in these 12 weeks?’ made me assess what I need to do now.”

Will Rech, Designer and Entrepreneur

A beginning.
A direction.
A point of reflection.

The method behind FIG

What matters is what moves

FIG helps you narrow your attention, identify the actions that genuinely move things forward, return to them consistently, and review what the process is showing you.

The method is informed by behavioural science, reflective practice and the way repeated attention shapes what we notice and act on. FIG Method

01

Narrow

Choose your focus instead of carrying every ambition forward.

02

Make specific

Translate direction into actions tied to what you chose.

03

Return

Keep the focus close through a few deliberate minutes each day.

04

Review

Notice what the evidence asks you to change.

The Dip

Week six gets tough. FIG is ready for that.

Around the middle of any meaningful change, motivation dips for almost everyone. This isn’t you, it is neuroscience. FIG caters for this and builds in a halfway check-in, so you adjust your approach instead of abandoning your goal. This is where you may have given up in the past but you won’t now.

The FIG Cohort comes with a guarantee. If you attend the sessions, do the work and see no real change, you can have your money back. There are no conditions, although we will likely have a conversation first.

“Understanding the dip was huge. Not just ‘this is a dip’, but that it’s a scientific thing that happens to almost everyone, in every process. The best thing is not to abandon, but to adjust your approach.”

Jordan Tuohy, CFO

Return with the Elixir

In week 13, you’ll hold the proof.

At the start, you write a letter from your future self. In week 13, you open it. Don’t be surprised by how much it resonates. By then your Field Guide is a record of everything you chose, did and learned.

“I wrote a letter from my future self, four or five years ago. A modest, peaceful life on the coast with a small dog and a boat. It’s literally the life we have now.”

Will Rech, Designer and Entrepreneur

Take the Clarity Quiz

Not sure where to begin? This short Clarity Quiz looks at four arenas of life, Character, Energy, Work and Love, and suggests where your next chapter might start. It takes a few minutes, and your results arrive by email.

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