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Focus Funnel

A one-page cascade that narrows a life's worth of ambition down to the one thing to do today. Anchored by the focusing question, five horizons stack and physically narrow — Someday, this year, this month, this week, today — each holding a single line that points at the one below it. A closing time block names when today's one thing actually gets protected. Success is sequential, not simultaneous: narrow all the way down, then guard the block. Leave any horizon blank to fill in by hand.

Best for: Turning a vague sense of what matters into the single thing to do right now.
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Narrow everything down to one thing.

Ambition is easy; sequence is hard. Start with the life you're building toward and let each horizon shrink it — this year, this month, this week — until only one line is left for today. That last line is where the day actually goes.

How it works

The funnel — five horizons, each narrower than the last, from Someday down to Today.
One line each — the single most important thing at that horizon.
Time blocked — when today's one thing actually gets protected.

Portrait, one page. Leave any horizon blank to fill it in by hand.

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