She has just lost a stone. More importantly, she knows exactly how she's going to keep it off,  without white-knuckling it through every weekend or feeling guilty on holiday.

Weekends are weekends. Holidays are holidays.

I started coaching a GP in January. Here's what her life looked like when we started.

Back-to-back appointments. Surgeries that overran because she cared too much to cut people short. Energy running on empty, propped up by food — the way so many of us quietly manage. She wasn't making bad choices. She was surviving a demanding life with the tools at her disposal.

So we didn't fight her life. We designed around it.

Her schedule. Her constraints. Her energy patterns. Her reality.

My process for building habits is robust. I've been quietly building confidence in it over the years — science-backed and people-led — and I've seen it work across very different people, pressures, and starting points.

But the habits themselves? Those are entirely yours. Designed for you, not your willpower.

This coaching journey also quietly increased my empathy for GPs. What looks like a ten-minute appointment is carrying a great deal more than that.

It has been a joyful partnership.