Figlet Life Coaching · about two minutes
Ground Check
Which of the nine Sovereign Grounds is hurting right now?
Eighteen honest sentences. Say how true each one is this week, not in general. At the end you get the ground that needs you first, one thing to do tonight, and a door into Figlet Life Coaching on that exact ground.
Nothing is sent anywhere unless you choose to save your result.
Your ground right now
One thing to do tonight
Save your Ground Check to this email so it’s there when you come back. Nothing else gets sent.
Saved to this email.
This is a coaching check, not a diagnosis. If you feel numb or hopeless, or you’re thinking about hurting yourself, call or text 988 and talk to a licensed therapist where you live.
The nine Sovereign Grounds
The map from my book, Proof of Work. Figlet Life Coaching meets you on whichever ground is hurting and runs the same seven moves: get ground in your body, what happened, where it lands, who’s driving, trace it, feel it and tell someone, one creative action.
Self
The two coins, too much and not enough.
Body
The body is the first ledger.
Love
Love is proof of work: presence that cannot be faked, repair done over and over.
Family
What every child needs to hear: yes, I’m there for you; yes, you’re enough for me; and boundaries that are the same tomorrow as today.
Work and creativity
Working against shame, not for money.
Money
The financial system is the not-good-enough mother: a mechanism, not your character.
Attention and technology
The algorithmic mother never says no.
Belonging
Fiat belonging is tribe over truth.
Aliveness
Ecstatic living is being, without a project attached.
Common questions
What is the Ground Check?
A two-minute way to find out which part of your life your nervous system is carrying right now. The sentences are the plain signs that a ground is shaky: the opposite of the signs that it’s getting solid.
Is it a diagnosis?
No. It’s a coaching check built on my Proof of Work of Being Human protocol. Coaching is how we go from where you are now to where you want to go. If what you’re carrying is more than coaching can hold, see a licensed therapist where you live.
What happens next?
You can start Figlet Life Coaching on that ground tonight (the first ten messages are free), read the article for it, or save the result and come back when the week has changed. Re-run it monthly to see the ground move.
The Gatekeeper and the Friend come from the teaching of Aftab Omer at the Institute of Imaginal Studies, where I trained.
