True North Effect
Tools for the work
you are actually doing.
Guides, workbooks, and coaching for the parts of your life that matter most. Start with what you can, when you can. Everything here is built to actually be used.
Start with the Alignment Check.
The Alignment Check is a short set of questions about what matters most to you, your core values, and how closely your day-to-day life is actually living up to them. You answer honestly, and it shows you your values alongside the gap between the life you are living and the one you actually want. It is the clearest place to begin, because everything else gets easier once you know what you are aiming at.
There are two versions. The Mini Check is free, takes about five minutes, and surfaces your top three values. The Full Check goes all the way to your top five, walks you through each one, and gives you a personalized PDF to keep.
The Mini Alignment Check
Ten questions, about five minutes. Surfaces your top three values based on how you actually answer, then shows you where your life and those values have quietly drifted apart.
- Your top three core values
- A quick current-versus-dream alignment read
- Your widest gap, named
The Full Alignment Check
The complete picture. Twenty-five questions surface your full top five, with a guided check on where each one sits versus where you want it.
- Your full top five values, each reflected on
- A guided alignment check on every top value
- A personalized PDF you can keep
The Annual Plan.
A three-part guided experience. You audit the year behind you, build a vision for the year ahead, and create a real strategy to get there. Choose the version that fits the moment, the keepsake book, or the printable you can begin tonight.
Most planners start with goals. This one starts with looking honestly at where you are, because clarity has to come before action. That sequence isn't decoration. It's drawn from the psychology of how people make changes that actually last.
The Keepsake
The Annual Plan, Boxed Edition
A hardcover book that will hold the version of you you have not met yet.
Sit with it on a quiet morning. Open it with someone you trust. Let it set the tone for the year ahead. Made by hand. Beautiful to keep, beautiful to give.
- Hardcover, 50+ pages
- The Audit, Looking Forward, The Map
- Made to order, ships in 1 to 2 weeks
Or do it with me
Some years, you don't want to do it alone.
The book is built to stand on its own. But you don't have to do this part by yourself. Sometimes the thinking goes deeper, and the honesty comes easier, when someone is in it with you, asking the right questions and helping you find your way to the answers. If that's what you want this year, you can do your Annual Plan with me. Every option includes the book.
Your own small group
The Private Workshop
Gather your people. Up to four.
Bring your friends, your sisters, your team, and we do the Annual Plan together, the audit, the vision, the map, in a room that is just yours. One person books, everyone takes part. A printable for each of you to keep.
Includes a printable Annual Plan for everyone.
Larger group, or want everyone to leave with the boxed edition? Message me for pricing.
One to one
The Private Session
Ninety minutes, just the two of us.
Your whole year, worked through together at depth. We go where it matters, and you leave with a plan you actually believe. The printable is yours to keep.
Includes the printable Annual Plan.
The full experience
The Session & the Book
The work, and the keepsake to hold it.
The private ninety-minute session, and the handmade boxed edition arrives at your door to carry the year you just mapped. The experience and the object, together.
Includes the boxed edition, shipped to you.
In the months between
Made for the Months Between.
The Annual Plan is the yearly sit-down. These are the rituals that keep it alive, the seasonal pause and the monthly reset. Each one stands on its own. Together, they're the rhythm.
Monthly
The Monthly Reset
Ten quiet minutes to come back to yourself.
A monthly ritual that keeps you close to what you set out to do, with a year-portrait that builds one month at a time. Reusable, every month.
A month is long enough to drift and short enough to correct. This reset is built around that rhythm.
Quarterly
The Quarterly Pause
The longer look at the season behind you.
A season-in reckoning that helps you see patterns, check your commitments honestly, and change course when the path you are on is not the right one.
Real reflection needs distance. A quarter gives you enough room to see a pattern, not just a bad week.
All three printables
The Full Practice
The printable Annual Plan, the Monthly Reset, and the Quarterly Pause together. The whole rhythm of a year, the big sit-down and the rituals that keep it alive.
Three rhythms, one method: the year for direction, the quarter for perspective, the month for course-correction. Built on a simple principle from how people sustain change, that reflection has to happen at more than one altitude.
Now being made by hand
The Keepsake Editions.
The rituals, bound to keep. Two companion volumes to the Annual Plan, hand-assembled to live on your desk and carry you through the year. In final design now. Join the waitlist and you will be the first to know the moment they open, with a founding price held just for you.
Twelve months, bound
The Monthly Reset, Bound Edition
A year of returns, in one keepsake.
Twelve monthly spreads in a hand-assembled hardcover, with a year-portrait that builds one month at a time. The ritual, made to keep.
Four seasons, bound
The Quarterly Pause, Bound Edition
The longer look, kept close.
Four seasonal reckonings in a hand-bound hardcover, with room to see your patterns and change course. A deeper pause, made to last.
All three volumes, bound
The Collection
A full year of reflection, in three hand-made keepsake books. The Annual Plan is the yearly sit-down, where you audit the year behind you, picture the one ahead, and map how to get there. The Monthly Reset keeps you close to it, ten quiet minutes at the start of each month. The Quarterly Pause is the longer look back, four times a year, to catch the patterns and change course while you still can. Together they are the whole rhythm of a year, three volumes meant to sit together. Made by hand, made to keep, and made to give.