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Why Your System Isn’t Working (Yet)
Why Most People Get Stuck When Building a System

Howzit
Most people who come to me for coaching already have an idea of how they want their system to look and feel.
But when I ask them: What is your system?
They can’t answer.
They know they want a dashboard, a planner, a tracker—but they don’t know how the pieces fit together.
That’s because most people build from the outside in, focusing on what they want to end up with and the aesthetics of the system instead of breaking it down to first principles and understanding what “it” actually is.
Take my client Penelope.
She’s building a medical database that organizes university-level medical studies from Australia, the US, and the UK.
Before we worked together, she was lost in information overload.
She knew what she wanted it to look like, but she didn’t know what each piece of information actually was in system terms.
Once we broke it down into first principles, she had a structure that fit every piece of medical information perfectly.
Or take Mike, who’s building an ADHD productivity system to sell inside his community.
He had all his frameworks in his head, but no way to translate them into a clear, structured system.
After our first 60min strategy call where we defined his framework by mapping it out together, it finally clicked.
He could see how everything fit together. What it was. What it was called.
He told me that the clarity from that call alone was worth the investment.
Because until you truly define your system, you’re just moving pieces around without taking the time to understand what those pieces are and how they’re supposed to fit together.
That’s why the goal of my first coaching call with any client is to gain clarity.
If you’re trying to build a Notion system, but you’re lacking the clarity, time, experience, and expertise to build a system that works for you or your business, I can help.
Reply “Notion Coaching”, and I’ll send you the details.
I only take on 5 clients per month. 2 spots are already taken.
The prices will increase once the spots are filled up.
No fluff. Just systems.
Chris “The Systemizer” Punt