BEFORE A SHOT
CUEPOINT
What matters.
When it matters.
You often know what you want to do. The difficult part is having it available when the situation gets busy.
The plan is often clear before it starts.
Then the meeting begins. The score changes. Someone reacts. You make a mistake.
And attention goes somewhere else.
DIFFERENT SITUATIONS. SAME CHALLENGE.
Useful thinking has to survive contact with the situation.
BEFORE A MEETING
Remember how you want to enter the room.
PERFORMANCE ARTS
When preparation meets the live moment.
BUSINESS & DECISIONS
When the plan meets reality.
BEFORE SPEAKING
One idea at a time.
BRING IT BACK
Keep the useful thing close.
Choose what matters. Keep it available. Notice what you actually did.
CuePoint is designed to stay close to the situation — without turning reflection into another task to manage.
BEFORE01
Choose what matters.
Decide what you want to do well before the situation starts.
DURING02
Come back to it.
Use a simple Cue when attention moves somewhere else.
AFTER03
Notice what you did.
Capture what actually happened while the experience is still fresh.
OVER TIME04
Discover your patterns.
See what holds up, what disappears and what may be worth changing.
THE PLAN CAN BE GOOD
And still disappear when you need it.
YOUR PLAN WAS
Next decision.
But you're still thinking about the last one.
YOUR PLAN WAS
Ask before you explain.
Silence feels uncomfortable.
YOUR PLAN WAS
Commit to the shot.
The score suddenly feels important.
IT DOESN'T MEAN THE PLAN WAS BAD
Attention moves.
A DIFFERENT QUESTION
How did it go?
What did I do?
Results matter.
But they do not always tell you what to repeat, change or do next.
CuePoint keeps attention on actions you can actually notice, adjust and return to.
OVER TIME
One moment tells you something. Patterns tell you more.
What holds up? What disappears? What changes when conditions or pressure change?
FRAMEWORKS
You do not always have to start from scratch.
A Framework is a small set of things worth keeping in sight for a particular situation.
Use one that already fits. Adapt the language. Make it yours. Or learn from someone who has already spent years thinking carefully about the situation you are facing.
EXAMPLE FRAMEWORK
Difficult conversation
Stay curious
Listen before solving
Ask one more question
Say what needs to be said
Notice your own reactions
SAME IDEA. DIFFERENT WORLDS.
Where does it matter for you?
CuePoint is not built around one profession or one sport. The situations change. The challenge of keeping useful intentions alive does not.
SPORT
Perform, coach or officiate
Keep useful actions alive when mistakes, score, pressure and emotion start competing for attention.
PERFORMANCE ARTS
When preparation meets the live moment
Keep attention close to the parts of performance that can still be influenced when the room, the body and other people change what you prepared.
EDUCATION
Teach and learn
Turn good intentions about teaching and learning into something you can actually notice and work on in the room.
WORK & LEADERSHIP
Lead when things get real
Stay connected to how you want to act when meetings, decisions and difficult conversations become demanding.
BUSINESS & DECISIONS
Decide before the answer is complete
Keep useful decision behaviour available while customers, markets and evidence are still changing the picture.
HELPING OTHERS
Support someone else
Make professional intentions easier to carry into conversations where attention, emotion and judgment all matter.
RELATIONSHIPS
When what matters depends on another person
Stay connected to purpose, the other person, and what is actually happening when conversations, conflict, boundaries, or emotion make the situation harder.
COMMUNITY
Good thinking
should travel.
Useful thinking already exists everywhere — in classrooms, training grounds, therapy rooms, workplaces, changing rooms and conversations.
CuePoint can help that thinking become something another person can use, adapt, test and improve.
WHY CUEPOINT?
There is meaning in the name.
A cue point tells us when something matters.
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THE THINKING BEHIND IT
Knowing is not the same as doing.
Explore the ideas behind attention, intention and controllable actions.
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WHY FRAMEWORKS?
Someone may already have thought carefully about this.
Frameworks make useful thinking easier to carry into real situations.
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TOP OF MIND
Keep the useful thing close.
See how cues, reminders and wallpapers can help thinking stay available.
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