The drifting just got
a lot harder to do.

You just hired someone whose entire job is to make sure your goals stop being intentions. From here on, someone is keeping count. That changes everything, and you know it. That is exactly why you did it.

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John will personally contact you within 48 hours to welcome you and schedule Session 1. He calls from a Sydney number, so keep an eye out. A confirmation email is also on its way.

⚔ Your First Assignment

Session 1 builds your Goal Map.
Arrive with the raw material.

In your first session, you and John will lock in your goals for the next 90 days and the habits that carry them. The quality of that session depends entirely on the honesty of what you bring into it. So your work starts before John ever calls.

The assignment

Write down the goals you have been carrying but not chasing. All of them. No editing.

Grab your phone or a notebook and dump every goal that has been living in your head: the ones you announce every January, the ones you have never said out loud, the ones you filed under someday. Do not rank them. Do not filter for realistic. Session 1 is where you and John sort them. Your only job now is to get them out of your head and onto a page.

Why this matters

A goal that lives only in your head can be quietly renegotiated every time it gets hard. A goal on a page, in front of another person, cannot. Writing them down is your first act of accountability, and you are doing it before the program has even started. That is the whole point. Iron sharpens iron, and the sharpening begins now.

“Here is what I know about the people who enrol in Iron Sharpens Iron. They are not lacking ambition. They are done pretending they can do it alone. That honesty is rarer than you think, and it is the exact ingredient that makes this work. Do your first assignment before I call. Write the goals down, all of them. I will be in touch within 48 hours and we will start sharpening.”

— John Nguyen

The Purpose Coach · Sydney, Australia

After the assignment

Three small things before Session 1.

Check your inbox and mark John as safe

Your confirmation email is coming from john@thepurposecoach.com.au. If it is not there within a few minutes, check your junk folder and mark the sender as safe so you never miss a session detail.

Block a weekly rhythm in your calendar

The program runs on weekly contact: a session one week, a check-in call the next. When John calls, you will lock in the day and time that becomes your standing slot. Have a think about which day of the week consistently works.

Tell one person you did this

Accountability compounds. Telling someone in your life that you have hired a coach to hold you to your goals adds a second set of eyes for free. It also makes quitting quietly impossible, which is exactly what you want.