Most of us are great at following someone else's plan. But ask us what we want? Suddenly we go blank.

Visceral drafting is simply writing down what you want without overthinking it. No looking things up. No worrying if it is the right answer. Just honest output.

• The old way: follow a plan someone else made
• The new way: always drafting, always asking yourself what you truly want

The tricky part? Even people who teach this get stuck. One Friday afternoon, after teaching this exact lesson, the teacher spent hours being unproductive because she was afraid to admit what she wanted.

She just wanted to go be mom.

Once she said it out loud and acted on it, she spent one hour with her son and his friends doing a cold plunge. Her son later said it was the best last day of school he ever had.

You already know what you want. The hard part is saying it without fear of judgment. That is the muscle we all need to build.