Hey there,
Welcome to Soft Reset Paper, Issue #1.
This is biweekly. Every other Sunday. Short, useful, easy to read with coffee.
Today's issue is structured. From here on, most issues will be lighter — a single idea, a prompt, a small reflection. Today's is bigger so you have the spine.
Pull out a notebook (or a doc — works either way). This takes 30 minutes total.
Step 1 — Review what happened (5 min)
Look back at this week. What got done? What got avoided? What created stress? One thing you're proud of?
This isn't a productivity audit. It's noticing.
👉 The full version of this step — done-list templates, friction checks, energy maps — lives in the workbooks. Browse by your niche →
Step 2 — Empty your head (10 min)
Brain dump. Everything. Work, life, half-finished, weird ideas, the recipe you wanted to test, the program you keep pushing, the note you owe a client.
Don't filter. Don't organize. Just write it down so it's out of your head.
Most people skip this step. Don't. The next steps don't work if your head is still full.
👉 If "I don't even know where to start" is the friction, the free Mini Reset PDFs show you exactly what to dump and how. One per niche, $0. Download yours →
Step 3 — Sort + pick three (5 min)
Look at your brain dump. Move each item into one of four buckets:
Must happen this week (urgent + important)
Should happen soon (important, not urgent)
Could wait (nice-to-have, not loud)
Not mine (delegate, drop, automate)
From "must happen," pick your Top 3. Not 17. Three.
The rest can wait or be sorted on the next reset.
Step 4 — Engineer the week (5 min)
Block the time. Not "I'll do it Tuesday" — look at your calendar and block the hours.
Match the task to your real energy:
High-focus tasks → high-energy times (often morning, not always)
Medium-focus tasks → between meetings or transitions
Low-focus tasks → end of day, drained but functional
👉 The workbooks have a full energy-mapping page walking you through this for your specific kind of work. See the workbook for your niche →
Step 5 — Tidy + Team up (5 min)
Reduce friction in your space and your tools:
Clear your desk
Reset your tabs
Place tomorrow's first task where you can see it
Schedule one body-doubling session with a peer if motivation is low
That's it. 30 minutes. Done.
Make this repeatable
If you do this once and it sticks, you don't need a workbook. If you'd rather not rebuild the framework from scratch every Sunday — that's what the workbooks are for.
Pick your kind of work:
🧠 R.E.S.E.T. — for ADHD Freelancers — $14 → Get it
🍳 F.E.A.S.T. — for Food Creators — $16 → Get it
📸 F.R.A.M.E. — for Instagram Food Photographers — $16 → Get it
💪 T.R.A.I.N. — for Fitness Coaches — $16 → Get it
🌿 P.A.U.S.E. — for Private-Practice Therapists — $18 → Get it
Each workbook is 26 pages of the framework above, fully expanded for your specific friction — therapist documentation, photographer file backups, coach client programming, ADHD task switching, food creator content batching. Same spine. Niche-specific muscle.
Or skip the paid version and try a free 3-page Mini Reset → softresetpaper.com
Talk in two weeks.
— Soft Reset Paper
P.S. Reply and tell me which niche resonated for you. I read every reply.