Operators. Sunday training. Standard Seven of the Twelve: Hold the Line.
The mechanism. Lines do not break at the moment you draw them. They break at the moment of contact, when pressure shows up and you negotiate. A standing order removes the negotiation: the response is decided before the pressure arrives, so the moment carries no vote.
- Name the line. One commitment currently under pressure. Written, specific, binary. It holds or it does not.
- Map the contact points. The two or three moments this week where the line will be tested. Name the day, the place, the person if there is one.
- Write the standing order. One sentence per contact point: when X happens, I do Y. Decided now, executed then. No rewrites at the moment of contact.
- Remove the exit. Whatever makes folding easy, take it out of reach tonight. The app, the snooze, the standing invitation. A line is easier to hold when retreat costs more than holding.
- Report the contact. When a contact point arrives and the order executes, log it. Held or not held. A tested line you can see is a line that gets stronger.
Tonight's drill: run steps 1 through 3 before you sleep. One line, its contact points, one standing order for each. Monday's first contact is already decided.
Full training: Week 7 - Hold the Line, in the Classroom.
Hold the line.