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Mindset · 5 min read · 19 Mar 2026
What I got wrong in my first two years of coaching
Too many rules, too fast, and a spreadsheet nobody except me ever opened.
By Vishal Thakker
My early clients got a fourteen-tab spreadsheet and a list of twenty-two rules. They were impressed in the first week and gone by the sixth. The plan was correct and completely unusable.
Fewer instructions, checked more often
Now a client leaves with two things to do and one number to report. It looks less impressive. It works considerably better.
Get the Sunday note
One change we made to a client's plan that week, and why.