Training only becomes learning when you put it into words. Once a week — sunday works well — sit somewhere quiet for ten minutes and answer three questions honestly. There are no right answers, and no one marks them.
What felt different this week? Not what you did — what changed. A touch that came easier, a moment you read earlier, a nerve that bothered you less.
What was yours to decide, and what wasn’t? The result, the ref, a teammate’s pass — not yours. How you reacted, how you prepared, where you looked — yours. Naming the line keeps your energy on the part you control.
The best few minutes of football this week? Find them and sit with them. When did it feel slow and clear? That feeling is what you’re building toward — worth knowing what brought it on.
Write a line for each. Over a season these add up to something you can’t get any other way: a record, in your own words, of how you actually grew.
progression. one honest line per question beats a page of tidy ones. as the weeks stack up, read back over the last month now and then — that’s where you’ll actually see what changed.
In the app, this runs as a guided check-in and lands on your trail.
background: the problem with keeping score