I've decided that today is Freebie Friday and as result, my first ever course, UNSTUCK, is now free fopr all members. No catch. I built this to help people to break out of stuck moment. You know the freeze, the almost-there-but-not, the "I know what to do but can't start" loop. It's been sat in my head and half-built for a while, but now it's yours to try. I'm not polishing this anymore, and I'd be grateful you can stress test it, poke holes in it, tell me what actually lands and what doesn't. I do have one ask though, if possible : Please go through it, then come back here and tell me straight. I want to know what worked, what didn't. What, if anything, you'd change, what might be missing, and, if you decide to quit half way though, what was the reason that made you close the tab. No fluff needed. Direct information is exactly what I want back. So, it should be available in the classroom, so thank you, good luck, now go get unstuck. 🧠

It's results day for me today for my ILM Coaching & Mentoring qualification, and even though I'm not quite there yet, my assessor gave me some really good feedback. Because I'm a client short, I knew that I was never going to pass this time, but I still had to put in what I had already done, and my assessor said this: "Your response so far is excellent, James. You have considered to such a detailed extent the benefits that were realised by client one. Please do the same for client two, and you could also account for how the coaching activity with your clients benefitted you, too. Great work so far, please continue with this high-quality standard!" Having this type of feedback from people who are already respected in the field is really reassuring me that, even though I know I have more to do, I'm still going in the right direction and that the quality I'm delivering is exactly what I had hoped it would be.

Welcome to the place to celebrate the wins, big or small 📍 Maybe you smashed something you'd been putting off forever, hit a personal milestone, or just had a genuinely good week, whatever it is, drop it below, and let's cheer each other on. Go on, you've earned it. 👏

In the UK we have The Dragons Den, but I think in the US, there's a similar programme called Shark Tank, and one of the well known sharks is a woman called Barbara Corcoran. Now, obviously, I don't know Barbara's story, as well as I know her UK equivalents, but apparently, Corcoran failed her way through school. Dyslexic, restless, one of the children that the teachers wrote off, and by her own account she had twenty jobs before she turned 23.. any of this sounding familiar? Then she started a real estate company with a $1,000 loan and a boyfriend who told her she'd never make it without him. Wrong. She built The Corcoran Group into one of New York's biggest real estate firms, sold it for $66 million, and became one of the original Sharks on Shark Tank. She wasn't diagnosed with ADHD until she was an adult. Not as a teenager struggling in class, not as a young founder hustling her first listings, but well after the business was already built. But here's the bit I think matters most 🤔 Barbara doesn't talk about ADHD like something she had to overcome, but talks about it more like it's the fuel that drives her. The risk-taking, the fast decisions, the refusal to sit still and wait, none of this was her overcoming her brain, but was merely her brain, doing exactly what it does, finally pointed at something that fit. It kind of goes back to one of my previous posts, reaffirming the whole point of the care label, not the worn one. Nobody ever needed to see "ADHD" stitched on the outside for her to succeed. She just needed to stop trying to operate like everyone else's brain — and start building around her own. If you would like to read more about Barbara's story, and some other inspiring entrepreneurs who think differently, then click here 👈 And here's a question for you, where in your life are you still trying to force your brain into someone else's system, and what would it look like to build around it instead?

I've been away because I tried to do too many things all at once, and as a result, I crashed. Just to say, these were not bad things. Just normal stuff, life stuff, business stuff, everything all in one go, but now I know it was too many things. And if you're ND, you'll know exactly what that means. It's not that you stopped caring. It's just that your brain reaches that moment where it hits capacity, and the only way forward is to go dark. Most people can't explain it, but most of us have felt it, without ever knowing what to call it, but now you do.. 👇 That's cognitive overload. And for neurodivergent brains it doesn't just slow you down, it shuts you down completely. So here's what happened to me. Three businesses. Too many plates. All spinning. None of them properly. And the moment I recognised the pattern, that "chasing the next shiny thing was the reason that the current thing got difficult, confusing, frustrating, annoying, I knew that I had to make a decision. So, this is what I've done. One thing. Right now. NeuThinking. Not forever. Just for now. Has anyone else hit the ND shutdown, and if you have, what brought you back?