Find Your Friction Scorecard

One real source of friction from your week, taken all the way through. Name what’s yours, find the drag, price the mistake, gate it, write the page. Leave with a finished instruction sheet.

How to use it: work top to bottom on one source of friction only. Type on any dotted line or tap a box to check it — or print and use a pen. Nothing is saved or sent; it lives only on your screen until you close the page.

1 · What’s yours (three things only you can do)

These stay human. Everything below protects them while freeing the rest of your week.

2 · The friction

I’m taking this one through today:

Boring + weekly beats flashy + rare. If the free FrictionIndex™ calculator already named a top drain, start there.

3 · Price the mistake — one sentence

If a draft of this went out wrong and unread, what happens and who pays?

4 · Gate it — check what’s true (one point each)

I’ve done it three or more times, basically the same way each time.

I could explain it to a new helper on one page.

A wrong draft is cheap to catch — I can check the result in under a minute.

The inputs are mine and clean — or easy to scrub first.

Nobody’s money, feelings, or trust rides on the draft going out unread.

5 checks — hand it off this week. The machine drafts; you read everything and decide what ships.

4 checks — fix the missing box first. If it’s the last one, nothing goes out unread, ever.

3 checks — shrink the task until more boxes clear, then re-score the smaller piece.

0–2 checks — keep it yours. That’s not a failure; that’s the job. Find the boring weekly friction instead.

5 · Write the page (the artifact)

One-page handoff · DRAFT

What good looks like

The steps, in order

Three never-dos

The under-a-minute check

6 · Install the check

I will read every output:

Name the day + time or the trigger. The handoff isn’t real until the reading has a home.

Hand off the repeatable. Keep the judgment.

The red line"Hand it off" never means unsupervised — it means the machine drafts and a person decides. Money, promises, apologies, and anything with someone’s feelings in it: the drafting may move, the deciding never does.

More free companions: the Fence Card, My Voice Card, the Shape Map Card, and the Weekly Ritual checklist. The full workshops live in the Library.

A person always makes the final call.

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