What's a small win you had this week, or anytime during the challenge or even the snapshot that someone without ADHD might not understand was actually a big deal?

I had very specific things in mind I was hoping to accomplish when I joined the 6 week program for the first time through. Jim offered practical solutions and protocols and systems to put in place that went above and beyond my greatest expectations. Now, having gone through the 6-week program twice, I am amazed everyday at the continuous breakthroughs I continue to have, specifically revolving around my creativity and overcoming writer's block and working through things that were blocking my creative energy because my ADHD had gotten so out of hand and I didn't have systems in place to act as a scaffolding to help support all the other areas of my life. As I was writing a screenplay this morning, I was overcome with gratitude and a deep sense of relief about the fact that I'm able to harness my creative energy again in ways that I hadn't done for at least a year before joining the program, and that I haven't done well for several years before that. Thank you again, @Jim Ebbelaar . You probably don't realize it but you've been a huge champion for my dreams in that way and I can't thank you enough. 🙏🏼🫶🏼

As promised, here are a few reads that stayed with me over the years. Not because they were “nice books”. But because each one left a fingerprint on how I think, feel, and move through life. Psycho-Cybernetics (Maxwell Maltz) This one taught me that self image runs everything. If you keep “seeing yourself” as the person who quits, procrastinates, or disappoints, you will keep living that loop. Change the inner picture, and behavior starts to follow. The Untethered Soul (Michael A. Singer) Big reminder: you are not the voice in your head. You are the one who hears it. When I really started practicing that, the mental noise lost a lot of power. The Power of Now (Eckhart Tolle) I read this while traveling in Thailand and I applied it immediately. It was honestly bizarre how quickly you can feel the difference when you stop living inside “later” or “what if” and return to the present. It was one of the first times I experienced peace as something practical, not philosophical. The Expectation Effect (David Robson) This gave me a grounded, research-backed way to understand something we all feel: what you expect shapes what you experience. He uses practical examples and data around placebo and nocebo effects, where positive expectations can improve outcomes and negative expectations can worsen them. Mastery (Robert Greene) This book helped me connect the dots back to childhood. Greene argues your “Life’s Task” often leaves clues early on, in what you were naturally drawn to before the world told you what was “useful.” What hit me most is how many masters went through a real shift after years of apprenticeship. A phase where they stopped copying and started experimenting, and something more intuitive and original switched on. He uses biographies of people like Darwin and Einstein to show that pattern. Reality Transurfing (Vadim Zeland) This one goes deeper for me than “just think positive.” The idea that stuck is reducing “importance.” The more you overcharge a goal with pressure, identity, or desperation, the more you create inner tension and weird resistance. Another concept is “pendulums,” basically dramas or group energies that try to hook your attention. When you stop feeding them with emotional charge, you get your energy back and you move cleaner.

My resistance to go to bed isn’t so much about the classic Revenge Bedtime Procrastination that’s often touted. It’s that I don’t want the day to end.

Hi guys! I've started my "productivity zone" experiment. The "target" for today is cleaning out the fridge, seeing what is there. I'm currently on my second break. The way I'm doing it is from 9 am to noon, I am doing 20 minutes ON and 20 minutes OFF. I have music playing. And I MAKE myself SIT during the breaks. This is a completely different way of thinking than I've ever had. The goal isn't even to "finish the fridge". It is merely to spend 20 minutes on it (and then 20 minutes off) from 9 am to noon. Why? Because I'm realizing and experiencing more and more that "taking a day off" just doesn't work for me. It just doesn't. However, I'm ALSO trying for the first time to honor my body's needs. I've also decided as of today that if my brain wakes up naturally at 5 am or when the birds chirp, to go ahead and get up then. Otherwise I actually end up MORE groggy. And since I'm by myself I literally HAVE to figure out all of the executive functioning etc every day. There is no one to make sure I take vitamins drink water etc. On top of it, I have major life decisions to make etc. But what I've realized is that "taking a day off" and laying down all day (while nothing wrong with it!) Actually ends up creating MORE anxiety for me. But! If I'm able to tell myself "hey, for those 3 hours, I worked on stuff", it will help me with everything else if that makes sense. So all of that to say that this is a completely different approach for me. But it NEEDS to be this way, at least for now. I'm going to bed much earlier, unless I have a specific appointment with someone else to do something actually fun (since this IS supposed to be my "break" after all 😅). But I'm no longer allowing myself to stay up watching TV, being on my phone etc. And by assigning a specific time frame, it gears my brain up while ALSO not being a threat that I have to be "productive" for 14+ hours 😅 The hope is that by designating this time as "productivity zone", my brain will start thinking of things I can DO during that time.