SLUMP

What do you want to accomplish?

Pick one. You can add more later.

Body

Run a marathon

18 wk

Eighteen weeks from running a little to 42.2 km. Built around one long run a week.

Bench 250 lb

30 wk

Thirty weeks of linear then wave progression. Four lifting days, one heavy bench day.

Get to 12% body fat

20 wk

Twenty weeks of a small deficit you can actually hold. Weigh in weekly, adjust monthly.

Do 20 strict pull-ups

16 wk

Sixteen weeks of low-rep volume three days a week. Add a rep, not a workout.

Skills

Learn to cook

12 wk

Twelve weeks to ten meals you can make without looking anything up. Technique first, recipes second.

Hold a conversation in Spanish

24 wk

Six months of daily drilling and two speaking sessions a week. Vocabulary is not the hard part.

Learn to drive stick

6 wk

Six weeks of short sessions in an empty lot, then real roads. Stalling is part of it.

Ship a working app

14 wk

Fourteen weeks from empty folder to something installed on a phone. One feature a week.

Work

Get a job

13 wk

Thirteen weeks of volume and preparation. Applications are a numbers game. Interviews are not.

Raise your GPA a full point

15 wk

One semester of fixed study blocks before deadlines, not after. Office hours count.

Ask for a raise

10 wk

Ten weeks of building a case with numbers, then one conversation you rehearsed.

Land ten client calls

8 wk

Eight weeks of outreach every weekday morning. Follow-up is where most of it happens.

Habits

Wake up at 5:30 every day

9 wk

Nine weeks of moving your wake time back in stages. The work happens the night before.

Quit doomscrolling

8 wk

Eight weeks of cutting screen time in steps and putting something else in the gap.

Ninety days without drinking

13 wk

Thirteen weeks with a plan for the nights that are hard. Decide before you are asked.

Clean the apartment and keep it clean

6 wk

Two weeks to reset it, four to hold it. Fifteen minutes a day and one full pass a week.

Creative

Finish writing a book

52 wk

A year to a readable 80,000-word draft. Roughly 500 words a day, six days a week.

Release an album

36 wk

Nine months from demos to a finished master. Write first, produce second, mix last.

Post every day for a month

4 wk

Four weeks of shooting in batches on the weekend so weekdays are just posting.

Build a photo portfolio

12 wk

Twelve weeks to twenty images worth showing. One shoot a week, ruthless edits.