The Four Receipts
Four Receipts Ledger
Your receipts review, every two weeks. Work through the four receipts, then meet with your coach. Your ledger keeps every cycle, so the pattern behind a slip shows up over time.
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The running ledger
Made
What promises are active this cycle, and what will keeping them cost?
Owned
Sort each promise. Is it mine to carry, the institution’s, or shared? Hand back what is not mine.
Kept
What did you finish? What slipped, and by when will it be done?
Proved
What shows it was kept? If it was not, what produced the slip, and whose obstacle was it?
The standing question
Who have I turned into a character this cycle?
Name the role you have given them in a few words. Then: what would they say my decisions look like from their side of the desk?
The receipt for this cycle
Your coach can read it in the ledger. You can also copy it into an email.
Engagement goals
Name one or two skills to build and one or two persistent challenges to solve. Write each so its evidence could be checked. Link promises to a goal as you make them; the reviews at three and six months read from the record.
Skills to build
Persistent challenges
Each one ends in one of two ways: resolved, or traced to the assumption behind it and handed to the role that owns it. Both count.
Every cycle
Select a cycle to open its receipts.
| Cycle | Promises | Kept | Slipped | Let go | Open | Kept rate |
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Whose obstacles?
Every slip, sorted by whose obstacle it was. Ask what produced it, not who.
Promises that keep slipping
Carried forward two or more times. One slip is an event; the same slip again points to an assumption worth examining.
Characters named
Answers to the standing question, cycle by cycle.
Your receipts portfolio
Every kept promise, with its evidence, grouped by the goal it served. Use it for interviews, résumés and performance reviews: here is what I promised, and here is what shows I kept it.
Your coach
Invite your coach by email. When they sign in with that address, they can read your ledger and history. They cannot change anything. You can remove access at any time.
Your clients
Leaders who have given you access to their ledger. Read only.
For the coach: running the check-in
- Read the receipt before the session. Start from the record, not from “how’s it going?”
- Understand, then challenge. Hear the story behind a slip before pressing on it.
- Ask what produced the slip, not who caused it. That includes when the “who” is the leader.
- Watch the Owned sort. Is the leader carrying the institution’s promises, or handing back their own?
- Use the History tab every few cycles: repeat slips and the obstacle tally show the pattern.
- At cycles 6 and 13, review each goal in the Goals tab against its evidence. For a persistent challenge, “traced and handed back” counts as success.
- Take the standing question seriously. Ask what the person they named would see.
- Close with the next cycle’s promises, each written so you could check it.