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Quarterly Personal Reset

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Vesper, walked over 90 days. The system that survives bad weeks.

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What this workflow does

A five-step productivity workflow walked over a quarter. Single persona (Vesper). Calibrate your energy map in week 1, run the weekly review every Sunday, track 3-5 habits, anchor the day with the morning + evening ritual, and run the monthly friction retro. The point isn't any single step — it's the cadence. Use it when you've tried productivity systems and bounced off because they demanded constant willpower.

OutcomeA personal operating system that holds for 12+ months — calibrated energy map, weekly cadence, friction patterns surfaced for action.

Step by step

5 steps · handoff between 1 personas
vesper
COACH
Step 1 of 5

Calibrate energy map (week 1)

Simple

Persona: Vesper. Skill in play: energy-mapper

What this step does

Builds the personal energy map. Three light check-ins a day for 7 days produces a peak/mid/low map per day-of-week — the input every other step uses to route work into the right slot.

Walk

  1. Three check-ins a day (mid-morning, mid-afternoon, end of day) — one tap each: peak / mid / low
  2. After 14+ check-ins (about a week), Vesper computes the map
  3. Map is per-day-of-week — Monday peak ≠ Friday peak
  4. Honest about uncertainty: weekend data is optional, low-adherence days get marked low-confidence

Output

  • The personal energy map. Used by step 4 to route deep work into peak windows.
Expected output: A personal energy map (peak/mid/low windows per day-of-week) ready to feed the daily ritual.
Skills used:energy-mapper
vesper
COACH
Step 2 of 5

Sunday weekly review

Simple

Persona: Vesper. Skill in play: weekly-review

What this step does

Every Sunday: walk the past week, surface patterns, name ONE system change to test next week.

Walk

  1. Wins (3 max). Lead with wins. A review that opens with misses corrupts the rest.
  2. Misses (3 max). Pattern, not blame.
  3. Patterns — what''s true across both that''s worth keeping or changing
  4. One system change. Not three. One. The skill enforces this.
  5. Top 3 priorities for next week, mapped to time blocks

Output

  • Sunday review doc (wins / misses / patterns / one change / top 3) — short, scannable, ~30 minutes
Expected output: A weekly review doc with wins, misses, patterns, ONE system change, and next week's top 3.
Skills used:weekly-review
vesper
COACH
Step 3 of 5

Track 3-5 habits

Simple

Persona: Vesper. Skill in play: habit-tracker

What this step does

Tracks 3-5 recurring practices. Streaks survive bad days (reset to 1 on break, not 0). On break, one root-cause question, no judgment.

Walk

  1. Pick 3-5 habits — max 5. The skill rejects a 6th.
  2. Daily check-in (silent unless decay alert fires — 24h since last instance)
  3. On break: reset to 1 + ask "what got in the way?" (one tap from a fixed vocabulary)
  4. Weekly roll-up at the Sunday review: which holding, which broke, which patterns

Output

  • Habit list (max 5) with daily streak counters; weekly roll-up surfaces in the Sunday review
Expected output: A small honest habit list (3-5) with streaks that survive bad weeks and break-prompts that produce learning.
Skills used:habit-tracker
vesper
COACH
Step 4 of 5

Daily ritual (morning + evening)

Simple

Persona: Vesper. Skill in play: daily-ritual

What this step does

Brackets each workday. Morning check-in produces a defended plan; evening shutdown closes loops so the day actually ends.

Walk

Morning (5-7 min):

  1. Top 3 today, each with a one-line outcome
  2. Time blocks against the energy map from step 1
  3. Calendar holds for the deep work blocks
  4. Tomorrow''s first block already staged from yesterday''s shutdown

Evening (3-5 min):

  1. Shipped (move to done)
  2. Slid (re-decide — drop or schedule, with one-tap reason for friction-log)
  3. Open loops closed
  4. Tomorrow''s first block — the single thing that gets done before email

Output

  • Morning plan + evening shutdown notes per workday
Expected output: Morning plan + evening shutdown for each workday. The single highest-leverage practice in the workflow.
Skills used:daily-ritual
vesper
COACH
Step 5 of 5

Monthly friction retro

Medium

Persona: Vesper. Skill in play: friction-log

What this step does

Once per month: walk the friction log (auto-built from step 2 reschedules + step 3 habit breaks), surface the patterns, name ONE structural change to try next month.

Walk

  1. Pull the past 4 weeks of friction-log entries
  2. Top 3 friction patterns by frequency
  3. Last month''s change — did it help? (the only place this question gets asked, so it actually gets answered)
  4. This month''s change — specific, structural, evidence-backed (no "try harder")
  5. Set the review for end-of-next-month

Output

  • Monthly retro doc — top friction, last month''s change result, this month''s change with evidence + expected effect
Expected output: A monthly friction retro that names ONE specific structural change to try next month.
Skills used:friction-log

How to invoke

  • Run the quarterly-personal-reset workflow starting today
  • Set me up with quarterly-personal-reset for the next 90 days
  • Walk me through Vesper's quarterly-personal-reset workflow