The Mid-Year Scoreboard · Session 2 of 5 · August 2026
The Decide Room
Cut what you will stop carrying
Thursday 6 August 2026, 8:00 to 9:30 PM EAT
This room has met. The next room is The Finisher's Table, Thursday 5 November 2026, 8:00 to 9:30 PM EAT, in person in Nairobi.
A seat is KES 2,500 per session, about USD 20, rising to KES 3,500 five days before each class.
The scoreboard most of us keep
Load as commitment: carrying everything.
The scoreboard this room gives you
Deliberate subtraction: what you chose to stop, and the finishing power the subtraction freed.
The question this room answers
What are you still carrying that you have already decided to stop?
What the room covers
- The hidden cost of decisions you have been postponing
- Standards as permanent architecture, not annual goals
- What genuine subtraction looks like versus what subtraction feels like
- The difference between pausing a commitment and cutting the commitment
- How to close the negotiation with yourself
The exercise
Name every commitment, project, or standard you are carrying that does not belong in the second half. Write the cut list. Each entry gets one sentence on what the entry is and the date you are stopping. Sign the cut list.
What you walk out with
Walk out with a written cut list: the commitments, projects, meetings and standards you will stop carrying in the second half, each decided and named.
You leave with your written cut list.
You do not need the earlier rooms. Walk in this month, and leave with your written cut list.
You become someone known for what you protect, whose yes means something because your no is real.
Free · 20 questions · 4 minutes
The Return Inventory
Read your year before you choose a room. The Return Inventory is free and takes about four minutes. You see where your year stands and the one room you most need, so the work starts from your real year.
5-room series · The Mid-Year Scoreboard