I run three companies and train every day. I have almost no discipline. For years I procrastinated and failed at follow-through on everything: workouts, diets, business. And the harder I tried to be disciplined, the worse it got. Here’s why. Discipline is self-control. It’s forcing yourself to do something when you don’t feel like it. If you’re wired differently, forcing has never once worked for you. You keep it up for a few days on novelty and dopamine, then it fades and you quietly abandon it. What actually works is finding something you’re so obsessed with that it pulls you. I get anxious when I can’t work. I don’t force myself into the gym. And you already have proof you can do this. Every time you forgot to eat because you were locked into something, that was you following through. The next CHALLENGE is where we find yours.

Just traced my first domino in the Operating Manual and realized I've been calling chance what was actually mechanics all along. One phone call tips my whole day one way, an upbuilding conversation tips it the other. I knew the levers the whole time. Now I get to decide which ones I touch.

Hey everyone, Jim here. Three things announced today. 1. The next 5-Day Challenge kicks off August 31: Free, live, and rebuilt from the ground up. This is the best version we've ever run. Save your spot here. Then do the part that actually decides whether you show up. Open your own calendar, block the hour on all five days, and set two reminders. For brains like ours, if it's not in the calendar it doesn't exist. Do it now, while this post is still on your screen. It takes two minutes. 2. Still finishing something something? You have until July 20 ⚠️ If you're working through the ADHD Focus Reset or the current 5-Day Challenge, they stay open through Monday July 20. After that everything closes until August 31. 3. New onboarding, and a new AI experience: The ADHD Operating Manual. The first section is free for every member, so you can try it before you decide. The full version is $27 right now instead of $99. Temporary. And that $27 is one single payment, no subscription. It also opens the chat with my AI twin: three messages a day, every day, all the way until the challenge starts on August 31. Ask it why you keep doing that one thing, and it answers with everything it already knows about you from your own reports. So tell me where you're at. Vote in the poll, it takes one tap. And if you're coming August 31, type a comment below and include the word: CHALLENGE and let us know how excited you are 🥳 With love, 💛 Jim

Hi friends. It's 1am. I had physical therapy during the session today. And then in the 12 hours since I've been hyperfocusing the entire time (well I did eat a couple of times, and drink water, and recycle that water 😁) on a super knotty, urgent, time-sensitive, high-impact, complicated thingie with my health insurance. The first part of this had to be resolved by midnight. My body, mind and energy are tired, but I hoped to at least taste today's meeting before bed. I don't see it in the classroom. Does it exist? Coming later? I feel like Day 1 really kicked out a lot of habit patterns for me. That's a huge win for regulation -- and yet, also, because I participated thoroughly and many parts of me said, "Whaaaa?!?, I've been dysregulating a lot in the short run since. But a direction became very clear. I feel tired and grateful.

I completed day 3 of the ADHD Focus Reset Yes! I listened to Jim’s talk and then immediately left for my bodywork studio. I used the subway commute as the body doubling time. So many texts and emails got done for planning client sessions, communicating with the contractor renovating my office, following up on healthcare and health insurance issues of my own,, etc. Productive, focused, satisfying. Watched the video tonight after greatly losing my focus at the end of a big client workday. Necessary communications turned into lots of undisciplined scrolling and dopamine slurping. I even watched myself let it happen. Got home, tired and more aware of the effects of scrolling wildly. Then came to thus site for the video and sharing with you. . My mood today: Varied widely from 6 to 10. Started off the day exhausted, and didn’t have time to take a walk, exercise or shower. Really enjoyed my client time and tasks… until I lost it afterward. That is a common habit after a day of even one client session. I don’t want to indulge in scrolling like that. My focus score today: 3-10 Reflection on body doubling: Worked well, even though I did the effort-focusing part on the subway commute. I’ve never formally done body doubling before. How do you stage this when you’re not in a cohort here? Would some of you like to say how you put it together? Optional reflection/win: Maximum availability and joy for clients and tasks. And even observed the tougher moments with some good success