$0 to 100K in 90 Days · Week One of Twelve

The Mirror
Audit

Before you build anything new, you look at what is already running. Most people cannot see their own patterns because they are inside them. This week you step outside and watch yourself the way an auditor would.

Six instruments. Seven days. No goal setting, no planning, no fixing. This week you only gather evidence. Everything stays in your browser on your own device.

M  Money rear view  ·  the last 12 months, in the open
I  In real time  ·  72 hours logged every 2 hours
R  Rhythms  ·  routines, habits, where the hours go
R  Reactions  ·  the body when money moves
O  Origins  ·  the beliefs running underneath all of it
R  Ruling  ·  what it all adds up to
plus the daily practice, running all seven days

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Every day starts here

The sync track

Headphones on, before you touch a single question. The track pulses at 0.1 Hz, which is one full swell every ten seconds. That is not a random number. It is the frequency your heart, lungs and blood pressure naturally resonate at. Match it and your heart rhythm stops being jagged. It becomes a smooth wave. That state is called coherence.

It matters for this particular week because coherence is what gives you access to both halves of yourself at once. Out of coherence, your system runs reactive and you get one or the other. The rear view and the hours need you analytical. The rapid round, the ladder and the muscle testing need you open. Most people can only reach one at a time, which is why they end up with either a tidy spreadsheet and no insight, or a page of feelings and no numbers.

  1. Breathe with the swell, do not just listen. In as it rises, out as it falls. Five seconds each way. This is the whole mechanism and passive listening does about a tenth of the work.
  2. Use the pacer below if you lose the rhythm. Start it, follow the circle for a minute, then let the track carry it.
  3. Ten minutes minimum before you open the day's task. Longer if you have it.
  4. Headphones are better because the track moves across the stereo field, but this one still works on speakers if that is what you have.
  5. Go straight in afterwards. Do not check your phone in between. The state is what you came for and messages take it off you in seconds.
  6. Leave it playing underneath the work if you like. It will hold the rhythm while you write.

The track was sent to you separately. Use the audio link you received for the week one pre audit work. Save it to your phone or bookmark it now, because you need it every morning for the next seven days and you do not want to be hunting for it at 6am.

Do the days in order. Days two, three and four have to run back to back because the trace only works as three unbroken days. If you miss a day, pick up where you left off rather than doubling up. Never run the origins work when you are rushed or tired.

Twelve months of money, laid out where you cannot look away from it.

Do not guess. Open your banking app and your invoices and put the real numbers in. Round to the nearest hundred if you need to. The point is not accounting, it is seeing the shape of the year. The page finds the patterns for you once six or more months are in.

The twelve months

most recent month at the bottom
MonthMoney inMoney outNetWhat was happening
Total in
·
Everything that landed in 12 months.
Total out
·
Everything that left.
Kept
·
What the year actually produced.
Keep rate
·
Percent of income you held on to.

The year, drawn

the picture usually says it faster
In Out Average income Big month, then a drop

What the year is telling you

generated from your numbers

Streams and outlets

12 month totals

Where the money came from

Every source. Mark whether it is reliable, lumpy or a one off.

Streams total0

Where it went out

Mark whether it was fixed, chosen or a surprise you did not see coming.

Outlets total0

Journal the pattern

write, do not summarise

Who were you around, what were you doing daily, what had you just decided or stopped doing. This is the recipe you keep forgetting you have.

Most people go quiet after a win. Spending, coasting, hiding, celebrating for three weeks. Name yours.

Tax, repairs, renewals, flights. Most are annual and knowable. Which ones did you simply refuse to look at?

Example: I earn hard for six weeks, relax for four, then panic for two.

Not where you hope. Where the maths puts you.