The FOSS Method · Play Sheet
Pregame
The play for The Drift. Your edge didn’t disappear. It stopped getting reps.
You stopped competing with yourself. The preparation disappeared first, then the standards loosened. Not all at once, slowly enough that you didn’t notice. The Pregame is how you restart the engine: a short morning routine that puts you back in competitor mode before the day starts calling the plays for you.
Every athlete knows the feeling right before stepping onto the field. The tunnel. The tape on your wrists. The whistle before the first play. That pregame feeling, locked in, ready, dangerous. That feeling is the starting point. Starting today, you have a Pregame in the morning and a Postgame at night. Your daily bookends. Same tool, two halves.
- Block the time tomorrow morning, before email, before meetings, to run pure offense. Strategic work only you can do. That blocked time is the field. The Pregame below is how you walk onto it ready.
- Body. Two exercises before you touch your phone. Push-ups and sit-ups count. Move before the day takes control.
- Visualization. Close your eyes and see your biggest goal already done. Not vague, specific: the room, the moment, the feeling.
- Standards. Say your standards out loud. Hear your own voice set the bar before anyone else does.
- The One Thing. Name the single thing that moves the needle today. Not your checklist. Lock it in.
- Postgame at night. Did the One Thing get done, yes or no? If no, name what got in the way. Then hold the same visualization for thirty seconds and close the day standing in the win.
Body: push-ups and sit-ups, every morning before anything else.
Visualization: the moment the business runs without me in the room. The team executing, the culture holding, and I’m watching it happen, not running it.
Standards: do what needs to be done whether I feel like it or not. Own my results. No excuses.
The One Thing: close the Henderson deal today. Specific. Not “work on sales.”
Run the full Pregame every morning this week, and the Postgame every night. Five out of seven is a winning week. The drift reverses on reps, not intentions.