And here's today's Daily Check-in - 2026-09-17 Activities 🛏️ Good Sleep, 🌙 Early Bedtime, ☀️ Morning Sunlight, 💧 Stayed Hydrated, 🥗 Healthy Eating, 🍺 No Alcohol, ☕ No Late Caffeine, 💊 Took Supplements, 🥦 Ate Vegetables, 🍳 Home Cooked Meal, 🧘‍♂️ Meditation, 🙏 Prayer, 📝 Journaling, 😌 Low Stress Day, 🎯 Deep Work, 📧 Inbox Zero, 📋 Planned Day, 🌅 Focused Morning, 🌄 No Screentime in Morning, 🧠 Learning, 🎓 Online Course, 👥 Quality Time Scores 😊 Happiness: 9/10 ⚡ Energy: 9/10 🎯 Focus: 9/10 😌 Calmness: 9/10 🌙 Sleep Quality: 9/10 🔥 Motivation: 9/10 Reflection One small win I had today was getting the check-ins worked out for the daily accountability and getting through the Week 1 worksheet🤩 I've also been really focused today, I'm currently doing an online course and I hit all my targets🎯 My focus and planning has been good, I'm really pleased with my progress. And I'm signing off on time from work. Yay!

Day 4 (almost) Done! My lowest Harmony dimension: Has to be my emotional, followed by my physical; I've got a really serious case of "Revenge bedtime procrastination", had it for years! And now that I'm retired, it's gotten worse, because I don't have the nonnegotiable need to get up early and get to work (except on the days I have to rise at 6AM to get ready to meet my daughter at her elementary school and pick-up my granddaughter and watch her that day...which is most difficult when I'm overtired from the night before!!). Wind-down pattern I noticed: [haven't tried this yet, but I know it's going to be PAINFUL for me!] Morning pattern I noticed: [haven't tried this yet, but I know it's going to be PAINFUL for me!] I decided to (not) close my open loop: [because I'm working on finishing this week's challenge, still!] And it made me feel: [TBD] What surprised me: [TBD] Thanks for any comments about 'baby steps' or 'mind-tricks!' 🙏

Day 3 Done! The belief that's been holding me back most: "I'll NEVER get control of my ADHD deficits and finally get well organized" Where it came from: Years of frustration at failed execution of day planning systems and organization products. My new code: "I'm finally turning the corner and getting things done because I have more time to invest in myself with several new ADHD communities!" My Future Self statement: "I am the kind of person who has confidence and poise in managing my neuro divergent operating system!" Debugging in progress...

Day 1 Done, finally!! (I had a lot going on in the last 2 weeks and couldn't even watch any of the taped videos 😔). Biggest insight: I have been trying to manage my ADHD brain by myself, with limited understanding of how my brain actually is wired and then usually too exhausted to try to read one of the several books on the disorder. My open loop is: Just trying to type up a list of the 12 or so golfers in my community with their contact information and then writing the cover email to briefly explain what a friend of mine and I wanted to do to make it easier for these men to contact each other to play a round of golf before the weather gets too cold. One word for how I feel right now: hopeful.

This is what I learned from Jim's Ai twin... Jim, look at what the boy chose: a 10 speed bike and model airplanes. One of those was pure boundless motion with no destination required, and the other was a bounded frame with instructions, a finish line, and something finished you could hold in your hands at the end. That kid already knew both halves of his own wiring. Then the house needed something from him, and he became the overachiever and hero child, and later the perfectionist, in your words, "so that perhaps nobody would find fault with me." Notice the aim there. Not to be excellent. To be unfindable by fault. That is a defense, not a standard, and it is the same engine that had you taking longer on the job and searching for the holy grail of organization instead of starting."