If you’ve been following along this week, here’s what you’ve done:

  • Day 1: Added 10 Duplicate Zone items and 3 locations
  • Day 2: Applied the One Home Rule: every item, one home
  • Day 3: Learned the 2-minute readiness check
  • Day 4: Started tracking material replacement costs
  • Day 5: Wrote your first failure note
  • Day 6: Named 5 locations in your shop

That’s it. No massive overhaul. No weekend-long reorganization. Just small, daily improvements that compound.

What’s Different Now

Week 1 goal was to stop paying the Duplicate Zone tax. If you tracked 10 items and 3 locations, you already have more visibility into your shop than most woodworkers ever build.

You can now:

  • Search before you buy
  • Find things in their home location
  • Start a project with a 2-minute readiness check
  • Make material decisions with data, not guilt
  • Log failures so upgrades become obvious

What’s Next

Week 2 focuses on Readiness Checks and preventing stalls. Same approach: one small improvement per day. The system gets stronger without getting more complicated.

The rule stays the same: you are not tracking everything. You are tracking what matters.

Systems beat memory every time. You proved it this week.