We have made this mistake before.

Motivation Depot started with Compass Books, a subscription we ran from 2019 to 2021. People liked them. We liked making them. Then our printer stopped answering the phone, and we could not fulfill what we had promised. We stopped, because continuing to take orders we could not ship was not something we were willing to do.

For a few years since, this has been a small shop selling mugs and tees, which we have enjoyed and are keeping. But the thing we actually wanted to build never went away.

What we are building now

The Compass system is not a planner. It is three pieces, each with one job: a Guidebook for working out what matters and what is worth chasing, a Pocket Compass for keeping that visible when life gets loud, and a Planner for turning it into a week you can actually live.

We are building it in that order, slowly, because the first version taught us that shipping something you cannot stand behind is worse than shipping nothing.

What we believe

Small consistent progress beats a burst of motivation. Direction matters more than speed. A detour is information, not failure. And the point was never productivity. The point is a life you would choose on purpose.

Kerri and Heather