WHAT IT HELPS YOU DO
You already know what you should be doing.
You've read the books. You've followed the accounts. You know what discipline looks like.
But nobody talks about what it actually looks like to chase a career, build something on the side, and be a present parent.....all at once, with nothing left in the tank by 6pm.
So it comes out like this:
"I'm just bloody exhausted after the 9–5, trying to build something to replace it."
"No energy for my own stuff after work and the kids."
"I know exactly what to do. I just don't do it."
The day owns you by 8am. Sunday comes with dread instead of a plan. The goals you set in January are a memory by March. You're exhausted and somehow still behind. And the worst part you're physically there at home, but your head is still at work.
That is not a motivation problem.
That is a system problem.
You're a high performer trying to run the most important things in your life with no operating system.
Of course it leaks energy everywhere.
The MOMENTUM OS fixes the habits, so the system can carry you.
What it helps you do:
- Own the day before it owns you
- Walk into every week already planned, with your Top 3 locked
- Keep your biggest goals alive long past the January spike
- Protect your energy by design recovery built in, not bolted on
- Close the gap between knowing and doing, every single day
- Be fully present at home without falling behind at work
- Stop white-knuckling your life on willpower alone
This isn't about doing more. It's about protecting what matters while you build.
WHAT'S INSIDE
✔ The complete MOMENTUM methodology - 4 layers, 2 rhythms, 1 operating system
✔ The Daily Evening Ritual - End every day with a clear head and tomorrow already locked
✔ The Sunday Reflect & Reset - Start every week with intention, not chaos
✔ The Quarterly Reset - The honest goal audit that keeps your goals real
✔ The Annual December Review - Your direction set for the year and the decade
✔ The MOMENTUM Life & Goal Planner - The tool that runs the whole system in one place
✔ Your MOMENTUM Score - Your life-balance baseline across 7 domains, tracked over time
✔ The MOMENTUM Collective - The community and accountability that keeps the system alive
Most planners give you a pretty notebook and leave you to it. By Wednesday it's abandoned, because it was built for someone with a quiet house and unlimited time.
MOMENTUM OS is built around your real life. Two rhythms, four layers:
TACTICAL (The daily and weekly engine)
- Daily (every evening): capture the wins and lessons, re-balance tomorrow's calendar, clear the noise. The 15-minute rule — if a task needs more than 15 minutes, it's in the calendar, or it doesn't exist. Output: next day locked, head clear before you sleep.
- Weekly (every Sunday): read back the week, consolidate what mattered, set your Top 3 priorities — personal and work. Not a list of 20. Just 3. Output: the week starts with intention.
LONG RANGE (The quarterly and annual compass)
- Quarterly: the honest audit. Did you hit your goals - yes or no? Drop what isn't working, double down on what is, lock protected "Get It Done" blocks for the next quarter.
- Annual (every December): distil the year, give yourself credit, re-align your 10-year milestones, set 3 goal areas — across Health, Family and Ambition, that change everything.
THE TOOL - The MOMENTUM Life & Goal Planner Everything the system needs in one place. Daily capture, weekly planning, quarterly review, annual vision, and your MOMENTUM Score baseline, all in one home. It replaces the scattered notes, the forgotten journal, the spreadsheet and the four apps you're currently duct-taping together.
THE SUPPORT - The MOMENTUM Collective The system keeps you on track. The Collective keeps you in the game. A small group of driven parents on the same path — accountability, weekly wins, and the kind of honest conversation that makes hard things possible.
THE TRANSFORMATION
Before
- Reactive - The day owns you by 8am
- Sunday dread - No idea what the week holds
- Goals set in January, forgotten by March
- Exhausted, and still behind
- Ambition outrunning execution every week
- Present in body, absent in mind
After
- Intentional - You own the day before it starts
- Sunday clarity - Week planned, priorities locked
- Quarterly resets keep your big goals alive and real
- Rested - Energy protected by design
- Execution consistent - The system carries the load
- Present - At work, at home, in the moment
WHO THIS IS FOR
- You're a driven parent with young kids and a demanding job
- You're building something of your own on the side
- You're ambitious, capable, and quietly running on empty
- You're tired of ending every day with nothing left for yourself
- You're done waiting for life to "calm down" before you start
- You want to be the parent your kids remember, not just the one who paid for everything
WHO THIS IS NOT FOR
- You want a magic fix with no effort
- You're not willing to protect even 30 minutes a day for yourself
- You want another generic productivity ebook to skim and forget
- You need everything perfect before you'll take the first step
- You're looking for motivation, not implementation
FROM MARC
I nearly lost my marriage. Twice.
Not because I wasn't driven. Because I had no system to hold everything that mattered. I was ambitious, working "hard," constantly distracted, overwhelmed, leaking energy everywhere.
So I built something. A complete operating system for my life that let me show up fully — at work, as a husband, as a dad, for myself, and as someone still building something of his own.
I systemised my life to simplify it. And it gave me everything the chaos was quietly taking.
This is that system. Tested over years, in real family life, with no quiet house and no perfect conditions. It's not theory. It's what actually worked.
You can be driven and present. That's the whole point.
Marc Crossfield The Driven Parent Coach · Founder, The MOMENTUM Movement
P.S. If the Morning Protocol was your entry point, this is the full house. The morning was where it started for me the OS is what made it last. Install it once, and let the system carry the load.
SHORT FAQ
How much time does this actually take? Minutes a day. Five to ten in the evening, half an hour on a Sunday. The system is designed to give you time back, not take more of it.
I'm not an organised person. Will this work for me? That's exactly who it's built for. You don't bring the discipline, the system carries it.
What happens when I miss a day? You won't fall off completely. Recovery is built into the design. Missing a day is expected; abandoning the system isn't.
Do I need other apps? Things3 and Google Calendar are advised. The MOMENTUM Life & Goal Planner replaces a lot of your old spreadsheets
