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Glossary: BMU 210 Build the Right Yard: Change Your Surroundings, Change Your Life
- Accountability partner
- A person you report to on a set schedule, using numbers, not feelings.
- Anchor routine
- One fixed activity that steadies your week in a new place.
- Bad month protocol
- A plan, written ahead of time, for what you will report and change after a month that goes badly.
- Baseline
- The hours you actually spent on your main goal last week.
- Burnout
- A well studied state of strain tied to long term stress at work.
- Ceiling
- The highest level of success that feels normal where you are now.
- Comfort trade
- What you give up in growth to keep things easy and familiar.
- Drift trigger
- A situation that has caused you to slide before.
- Energy drain
- A regular duty that costs you more energy than it gives back.
- Environment
- Every outside factor that shapes what feels possible and what you do: people, space, inputs, structure, and energy.
- Exit conditions
- The facts that must be true before you leave, such as money saved or a new job lined up.
- Exposure Gap
- A course term for the distance between what you see every day and what you are trying to build.
- Five Person Audit
- A course tool: you list your five closest contacts and ask whether each one expands or shrinks what feels possible.
- Friction
- Anything that slows you down before or during the work you want to do.
- Input
- Anything you take in on a regular basis: feeds, shows, news, podcasts, talk.
- Inventory
- A written list of the skills, judgment, and standards you bring with you.
- Leading indicator
- A behavior that, when present, tells you that you are on track.
- Minimum viable day
- The smallest amount of goal work, such as 30 minutes, that you protect even on your worst day.
- Presence without performance
- Being with people from your past without acting like your old self or showing off your new one.
- Protected focus block
- A set time of at least 90 minutes for your main goal, away from your phone.
- Quarterly Diagnostic
- A course tool: every 90 days you score People, Space, Inputs, Structure, and Energy from 1 to 10.
- Recovery
- Time and activities that restore you after work and stress.
- Situational strategy
- Changing your setting so a temptation is less likely to show up at all.
- Sounding board
- A person you test your ideas with.
- Startup sequence
- Everything you do between sitting down and doing real work.
- Two year target
- One specific, measurable result you want in the next 24 months.
- Visible model
- A real person from a background like yours who has done what you want to do.
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