💭 Reflection: I skipped yesterday’s check-in, so I really wanted to make sure I completed one today, even though it’s getting late🌙 I had a busy morning as my daughter had been selected as her class’ “Mindsetter of the Month” and there was an awards ceremony at her school’s library. After the ceremony, I went to her annual individualized education plan (IEP) annual meeting afterwards, where I got to provide my parental input on her educational goals for this school year. She’s 7 years old and autistic and has been in a special education classroom. Today I learned that her IEP team was recommending she spend a significant portion of her school day in a general education classroom because she’s made so much progress all across the board💜💜💜 Mood/feeling: Thankful, at peace💖💛 📊 Wellbeing Scores: 😊 Happiness: 9/10 ⚡ Energy: 7/10 🎯 Focus: 8/10 😌 Calmness: 8/10 🌙 Sleep Quality: 8/10 🔥 Motivation: 9/10 ⭐ Average: 8.2/10 ✅ Activities from yesterday: 🛏️ Good Sleep 🌙 Early Bedtime ☀️ Morning Sunlight 💧 Stayed Hydrated 🚶 Walk 🥗 Healthy Eating 🥩 Hit Protein Goal 🍳 Home Cooked Meal 🙏 Prayer 📝 Journaling 💚 Gratitude Practice 🎯 Visualization 😌 Low Stress Day ✨ Positive Mindset 🎯 Deep Work 🌅 Focused Morning 🧠 Learning 👥 Quality Time 🤝 Helped Someone 📞 Called Friend/Family 🎉 Social Event 🍽️ No Phone at Dinner 👂 Active Listening 🐱🐶 Pets

If you're in Week 1 and these three words are starting to blur together, here's the way I finally got it to click. They're three points on one line: where you are, where you're headed, and how you get moving. **𝗕𝗮𝘀𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲 — 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂'𝗿𝗲 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗻𝗼𝘄.** The honest snapshot. Your sleep, your energy, the state of the things you've been avoiding. Not a judgment, just your coordinates. Without it you can't tell later if anything actually moved. **𝗡𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗵 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗿 — 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗹𝗼𝗻𝗴𝗲𝗿-𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗺 𝗮𝘀𝗽𝗶𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻.** This is the horizon, not the six weeks. Your future self, a few years out. It's the "why" that has to survive the week 3 day when everything feels heavy and the old voice pipes up. Important bit: your North Star does **not** change inside a six-week cycle. Its whole job is to keep pointing. **𝗕𝗶𝗴 𝗥𝗼𝗰𝗸𝘀 — 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗶𝘅-𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸 𝘃𝗲𝗵𝗶𝗰𝗹𝗲.** This is where the short-term work lives. You pick a maximum of two life domains that carry you toward the North Star over these weeks, and each gets one concrete, measurable indicator. The Big Rock is the direction. The number is the compass reading that makes the daily decision almost automatic. So the chain is simple: 🔹 **Baseline** tells you where you are 🔹 **North Star** tells you where you're ultimately going 🔹 **Big Rocks** are the two things you actually move over six weeks to close a bit of that gap The North Star stays fixed. The Big Rocks are what you renegotiate each cycle. A question that helped me: does my commitment letter clearly separate the horizon from the six-week move? Or have the two quietly blurred into one? That's usually where the clarity leaks. 💛

I heard Jim say some people might want to leave at the 1st worksheet..I had a couple of spirals before that but got so triggered with the sheet I had to stop..and wanted to give up.. I cannot even begin to express my thanks/ wonderment of having 24/7 access to AI..each issue met with understanding, reframing.. Today's spiral has led to a whole lot of revelations..none -the- least being that not being well has been an almost lifetime Identity..being healthy is totally unknown territory ..I am scared of stepping out and finding out.. The changes these revelation have brought about feel magic to me..(who has been in an almost functional freeze for 5+) Firstly I listened to my body instead of an old code that told me to clean my plate ( starving children etc)..and left half for tomorrow..a 1st for me..once it was on the plate I felt compelled to finish everything.."like it or not" And somewhere I encountered the question about what I would be doing at 8pm..normally it was scrolling ..tonight at 8pm I was doing my dishes instead of leaving them to a decent pile.. Then finished the area I started vacuuming yesterday and gave up.. These are wins for me on a Red Day..and I am grateful 😊

I was diagnosed with ADHD in January 2025 at age 38. I was struggling with procrastination, perfectionism, and paralysis. Even with a therapist, a psychiatrist, and Adderall, some things improved, but something was still missing. There was this ideal version of myself and my life that I could see so clearly, but couldn't actually touch. I felt like she was who I was supposed to be, but I didn't know how to reach her. I found ADHD Harmony in December 2025. I had just lost my job, health insurance, psychiatric provider, and had reached a limit to what my therapist at the time could offer me. I was desperately searching for answers. I knew there had to be a way to figure out how to live life better. There’s a saying that goes, “Nobody is coming to save you, you have to save yourself.” While that is true in probably most ways, I also feel that finding ADHD Harmony amidst my desperation was like a welcoming outstretched hand that picked me up to my feet, and said, “Here, this is what you need to do, and here’s how to do it. Day One - Step 1, 2 , 3, 4...” Growing up as a child, I never felt like I really understood how the world worked, whereas other people…just seemed to know. I felt weird and different and experienced bullying in school that seemed to confirm those feelings. I finished the 5-Day Challenge in January 2026 and it unlocked something inside of myself that years of therapy, psychiatric medications, self-improvement books, and other things, though helpful and important in their own right, hadn't. Later that month, the founding 6-week cohort (Cohort 1) was offered. I wanted to be a part of it more than anything, but due to my job loss, I was not in a financial position to sign up for it. I had planned on working with the ADHD Harmony Blueprint on my own, but actually ended up connecting with another member in the community who had also been unable to join Cohort 1, and asked if I’d like to work on the Blueprint together with her. That member @Deb Brouwer ended up becoming my original accountability buddy, and she is still one of my accountability buddies today.

I'm Lindsay and I was officially diagnosed with ADHD in March of 2025 at the age of 42 - I've believed for the last 15-20 years that I had ADHD but I didn't bother getting diagnosed because I felt like I was doing okay and didn't want to go on meds. However, during COVID when I was forced to work from home instead of in an office around other people (natural body doubling that I need but didn't know I needed before I knew what body doubling was). I intended to go get a diagnosis and try medication but due to my ADHD procrastination tendencies, it was years before I actually found where to go and went to do it. Over the last few years it's felt like it's been getting worse and I've been struggling more and more with it. Some of that is the continued work from home scenarios I've been in, but I recently learned that ADHD symptoms can often get worse for women around their 30s/40s due to changing hormones - learning that made me feel better, feel like its not my fault, it's my body and mind doing it to me. I'm really hoping that I can find a way to better live with this and get back to being the productive and happy person that I used to be.