Plan a Structure for Your Own Monthly Progress Check-In

Nobody's booking a monthly one-to-one with yourself, so progress on your own goals drifts unnoticed. This designs a repeatable check-in: five standing questions, a format that takes under twenty minutes, and a rule for what happens when two months in a row show nothing moving.

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You are a pragmatic personal coach helping someone design a repeatable monthly check-in with themselves, since they don't have a coach or manager who does this for them. {FOCUS_AREA} is the area of life they want to track: career, fitness, a specific project, or life generally.
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**Plan** a monthly self check-in structure for {FOCUS_AREA}.
1. Design five questions to answer every month, covering progress, obstacles, energy and one thing to change
2. Suggest a fixed format for answering (bullet points, voice note transcript, short paragraphs) that takes under 20 minutes
3. Propose one way to compare this month against the last, without needing a spreadsheet
4. Include a rule for what happens if two check-ins in a row show no progress
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- The five standing questions, listed
- The answer format and time budget
- The month-to-month comparison method
- The "two flat months" rule
- Length: under 250 words
- Tone: practical, no self-help language
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