A Simple 30–90 Day Planning Method to Build Momentum

It’s Never Too Late to Plan for 2026 and Beyond (Part 6)

It’s Never Too Late to Plan for 2026 and Beyond
Wednesday Planning Series — Dec 10, 2025

This week continues our gentle, practical Wednesday series—created to help you build a thriving future for your career and business, one kind and consistent step at a time.

It’s never too late to plan your next season. Whether you’re relaunching after a setback, scaling what already works, or quietly pivoting toward something truer, the path forward becomes lighter when you move with clarity and consistency. Over the coming Wednesdays, I’ll guide you through a calm, proven planning rhythm: clarify what you want, choose fewer priorities, and take small steps that compound. This series blends reflection with action, so you always know what to think about—and what to do next.

If you’d like personal support at any point, explore the resources at www.petergourri.com or book a complimentary planning session here: https://calendly.com/petergourri-coaching/success

First 30–90 Days: Keep It Simple

Consistency beats intensity. Once you’ve defined your first milestone, the next step is to translate it into small, finishable actions. We aren’t optimizing for theatrics—we’re optimizing for traction. Simple, steady movement wins.

This Week’s Practice
Break Milestone 1 into 3–7 actions you can complete in the next 30–90 days. Assign dates and owners, even if the owner is you. Keep every action small enough to move forward in a single focused block of time. Review your progress once a week so you can stay on track and refine as you go.

This Week’s Micro-Action (5–15 minutes)

When in doubt, shrink the action until it feels almost embarrassingly doable—then do it. Small movement compounds faster than big, inconsistent effort.

If you’d like a simple planning sheet to outline your 30–90 day actions, visit www.petergourri.com.

Your next chapter is built in small, steady steps. Let’s take them together.

Focus on What Matters Most as You Plan for 2026 and Beyond

It’s Never Too Late to Plan for 2026 and Beyond (Part 3)

Welcome to another part of our gentle, practical Wednesday series — a space created to help you build a thriving future in your career and business, one kind and consistent step at a time.

This series is for you whether you’re relaunching after a setback, scaling what already works, or quietly pivoting toward something truer. Over the coming Wednesdays, we’ll walk through a proven planning rhythm:
clarify what you want, choose fewer priorities, and take small steps that compound.

Each week blends reflection with action, so you always know what to think about — and what to do next.

If you’d like personalized support at any point, you can explore the resources at www.petergourri.com or book a complimentary planning session here: https://calendly.com/petergourri-coaching/success

Choose Your Big Four

Overwhelm isn’t a personal failing; it’s simply a mismatch between your capacity and your commitments. When too many projects compete for your attention, everything feels urgent — and nothing meaningfully moves.

Focus is a kindness.
By intentionally limiting your active projects, you increase the likelihood that any of them will truly be completed and yield the results you want.

Try This Gentle Planning Practice

Step 1: List every project tugging at your attention.
Don’t censor yourself; capture everything currently occupying your mind.

Step 2: Circle no more than four projects for the next 90 days.
These become your Big Four — the projects you’ll actively move forward.

Step 3: Move everything else to a “later” list.
You won’t lose them; you’ll simply review them monthly to see what’s still relevant.

Step 4: Give each active project a clear name and concise promise.
This ensures you know exactly what “done” looks like.

Example:

• Project Name: Refresh Client Onboarding

• Project Promise: Clients understand next steps within 10 minutes of signing.

Naming the promise helps you stay anchored in outcomes, not just tasks.

This Week’s Micro-Action (5–15 Minutes)

Block a weekly 20-minute review session to protect your Big Four from scope creep.
This single habit will keep your priorities stable and your progress steady, even on busy weeks.

Set the appointment. Honor it. Adjust gently as needed — the consistency matters more than the duration.

Want a One-Page Project Design Sheet?

If you’d like a simple template to structure each of your Big Four projects, you can download a one-page Project Design sheet at www.petergourri.com.

Your future is built one clear choice, one aligned priority, and one small weekly action at a time. You’re not behind. You’re right on time.

Borrow Clarity from Your Future Self

It’s Never Too Late to Plan for 2026 and Beyond (Part 4)

This week continues our gentle, practical Wednesday series—created to help you build a thriving future for your career and business, one kind and consistent step at a time.

It’s never too late to plan your next season. Whether you’re relaunching after a setback, scaling what already works, or quietly pivoting toward something truer, the path forward becomes lighter when you move through it with intention. Over the coming Wednesdays, I’ll guide you through a calm, proven planning rhythm: clarify what you want, choose fewer priorities, and take small steps that compound.

This series blends reflection with action, so you always know what to think about—and what to do next.

If you’d like personal support at any point, explore the resources at www.petergourri.com or book a complimentary planning session here:
https://calendly.com/petergourri-coaching/success

Write Your Future-You Letter

When the path ahead feels foggy, you don’t need to wait for clarity—you can borrow it.
Imagining the version of you who has already done the work—the November 2026 you—can unlock courage, direction, and a deep sense of possibility.

This practice helps you step into certainty before it arrives.

This Week’s Practice

Set a 15-minute timer and write a letter from your future self, the you of November 2026.

In your letter, describe:

• What you built—in your business, career, or personal systems

• What you stopped doing—habits, commitments, or constraints you released

• What support you gathered—mentors, tools, relationships, or processes

• Specific wins—financial, operational, and personal

Then close with three sentences of advice from future-you to present-you.
These words often become the anchor you return to throughout the year.

This Week’s Micro-Action (5–15 minutes)

Read your letter out loud.
Notice how your posture, tone, and breathing shift. That sensation is your body agreeing with the vision—it recognizes the truth in it before your mind does.

If you’d like prompts to support this exercise, you can request them at www.petergourri.com.

Your future self is already rooting for you. Let’s build toward them, one Wednesday at a time.

Clarify What “Success” Really Means for Your Next Season

It’s Never Too Late to Plan for 2026 and Beyond (Part 2)

It’s never too late to plan your future—whether you’re relaunching after a setback, scaling what already works, or quietly pivoting toward something more authentic.

As many people reach the end of a busy year or step into a new one, a common feeling emerges: I know I want things to be better…but I’m not sure what “better” actually looks like.

Speed without clarity leads to wheel-spinning. But when you define success in a way that feels humane, grounded, and aligned with your life, your efforts have direction. You know where you're heading. You know what matters. You know what to say yes to—and what to release.

This series continues with a simple but transformative step: clarifying what success means for you in the season ahead.

What You’ll Find in Each Issue

Every part of this series offers:

• A short reflection to anchor your thinking

• A simple practice you can complete with intention

• One tiny action you can take immediately

At any point, you can explore additional resources at www.petergourri.com.

Clarify What “Success” Means for You

Success isn’t just about outcomes—it’s about how you experience your work and life on the way there.

When you define success clearly, you reduce decision fatigue, increase alignment, and create a filter for your energy, time, and focus. You stop sprinting without direction and begin moving with purpose.

This week, we set aside the external noise and craft a definition of success that belongs to you.

This Week’s Practice

Write a short definition of success for the next 90 days that includes both:

1. The outcomes you want

• Revenue, client numbers, key milestones, visibility, or progress in your business or career.

2. The experience you want

• How you want your workload to feel

• What boundaries you want to honor

• What pace you want to maintain

• How you want to show up in your leadership, creativity, or well-being

Then, choose two to three signals that show you’re on track. Examples:

• Conversations booked

• Proposals sent

• Offers accepted

• Customer feedback received

• Lead time reduced

• Energy levels stabilized

• Consistency maintained

Signals keep your vision grounded and measurable without being rigid or overwhelming.

This Week’s Micro-Action (5–15 Minutes)

Place your signals somewhere you’ll see them every week—at the top of your to-do list, inside your planner, or as a small note on your digital calendar.

This quiet reminder helps you steer your week with clarity rather than urgency.

Closing Reflection

When you take the time to define what success looks and feels like, you give your future a shape your current self can work toward. You create a soft but steady framework—one that supports momentum without sacrificing well-being.

Remember: clarity isn’t a luxury. It’s a form of self-support.

By naming what matters now, you make it far easier to build the next season of your career, business, or life with intention.

One thoughtful definition today can reshape the next 90 days—and possibly the next chapter of your work entirely.

Burnout in the Legal Profession: A Silent Epidemic We Can No Longer Ignore!

Burnout in the Legal Profession: A Silent Epidemic We Can No Longer Ignore

I worked as a litigator in the legal profession for nearly 30 years. During that time, I had my fair share of moments when I felt burnt out—but I just kept going. It wasn’t a particularly healthy approach.

But one moment stays with me.

I was in the car with a barrister I deeply respected—professionally brilliant and personally grounded. During the journey, they broke down in tears. They couldn’t take any more.

This wasn’t someone weak. This was someone strong, competent, and focused. But like so many in our field, the weight had become unbearable.

Burnout is real. And in law, it’s a silent epidemic.

One in four legal professionals now reports clinical depression. The long hours, the constant pressure, the fear of showing vulnerability—it takes a toll.

At www.petergourri.com, I coach lawyers, executives, and legal business owners across the UK and US to reclaim energy, purpose, and clarity—without walking away from the profession they’ve worked so hard to build.

I offer:

• One-to-one coaching for burnout recovery

• Team training to foster healthy legal cultures

• Leadership development focused on sustainability

• Strategy sessions to realign your practice with your values

 This epidemic isn’t just emotional—it’s systemic. But you don’t have to do it alone.

 If this resonates with you—or could help someone in your world—please share it. It might be the lifeline they didn’t know they needed.

 #lawyersoflinkedin #attorneysatlaw #burnoutrecovery #mentalhealthinlaw #legalprofession #executivecoaching #pgcc #petergourri

Take a hike - For clarity and wellbeing!

As a business mentor and life coach, I encourage my clients to give themselves space and time in order to breathe and have the opportunity to take a step back and gain clarity. Sometimes we need to be completely separated from our business world and the stresses that around us to remind ourselves what’s actually important and the results we are seeking to achieve.

This week, try to give yourself some space think about what you want for your future plans whether that relates to your business or personal life. I find it helpful to start at the end, thinking where I want to be in 20, 10 or 5 years time and work backwards from there.

Hiking on the Rattlesnake trail

at the Delaware Water Gap

On Sunday I went on a hike to the Delaware Water Gap which is on the border of New Jersey and Pennsylvania. It was my first hike of 2021 and despite the fact that my Covid lungs were reminding me that it will take a little time to fully recover despite the fact that it’s already been nine months, I felt empowered, energized and overjoyed at being out in the wilderness.  Having the opportunity to push myself and to enjoy the outdoors which is where I’m usually happiest can help to give me clarity, empowerment and strength. Wellness is always key to a good life.

The temperature was -2 C and there was a fair bit of ice and mud around but nothing to be worried about, and absolutely worth it for the views and the fresh air. Being in the outdoors has been my go-to for joy and clarity my entire life. As a child and during my time in the RAFVR(T), I used to love having the opportunity to be out enjoying the outdoors for all that it gives us.

I continue enjoying my time outside and love being a volunteer with the New York/New Jersey Chapter of the Appalachian Mountain Club. They do such valuable work to promote the outdoors. I still have my various outdoor qualifications as well as extensive experience which I was lucky enough to have obtained in the United Kingdom. It is my intention to get out as often as I can to help me think and gain clarity for my best possible future life, which also involves a successful business.

So in conclusion of my post, I invite you to click on the link to my contact page so you or your friends, family or business associates can book a complimentary session with me. Many people find just one session with me gives them the opportunity to gain clarity which they’ve been seeking. There’s no commitment. It’s all about you and the power in your life, making either your business or your life successful. In the case of my clients it’s usually both. I’m looking forward to sharing this journey with you. 

Views from the Ridgeline on the Rattle Snake trail at the Mohican Center at the Delaware Water Gap in New Jersey