Authoring Your Future: The Work Book
Authoring Your Future
101 Practices to Shift Your Agency - A Complete 52-Week Transformation Protocol
What You Learn When You've Been Everywhere
Eight circumnavigations, one transformation protocol. From Arctic silence to global chaos—this is the wisdom of the spaces between.
🎧 Introduction: The Journey is the Destination
Stop Drifting, Start Navigating
In eight circumnavigations of this planet, I've learned that the most profound transformations don't happen at destinations—they happen in the spaces between. Between the Arctic silence of Fair Isle during a pandemic and the chaos of Kabul's streets.
52 Weeks of Applied Wisdom
This isn't about finding yourself—it's about authoring yourself. Week by week, experience by experience, choice by choice. Hard-won wisdom for anyone ready to take radical responsibility for their transformation.
The 52-Week Protocol
Four quarters. Thirteen weeks each. One complete transformation from victim to author.
Weeks
Complete transformation journey
Practices
Actionable shifts in agency
Quarters
Progressive mastery stages
Around the World
Experience informing wisdom
Four Quarters of Transformation
Each quarter builds on the last, taking you from awareness to embodiment.
Q1: Reclaiming Responsibility
Weeks 1-13: The fundamental shift from victimhood to authorship. Learn to take radical responsibility for your life, separate what's yours from what belongs to others, and begin rewriting the stories that have kept you small.
Quarter 1 Audio
Q2: Rewriting Identity
Weeks 14-26: Discover the fluid nature of identity and your power to consciously reshape who you are. Identity is not fixed but habitual—learn practical techniques for becoming the person you want to be.
Q3: Expanding Capacity
Weeks 27-39: Expand your capacity for growth, challenge, and contribution. Embrace stretch moments, build self-trust, and develop the rituals and practices that support continuous expansion.
Q4: Living Authored
Weeks 40-52: Integrate everything into a life of intention and impact. Align your inner world with your outer expression, develop your unique contribution, and leave a legacy through daily choices.
Sample Weekly Themes
Taking radical responsibility for your life narrative.
Breaking the loop of rehearsed limitations.
Where growth actually happens—between comfort and overwhelm.
Aligning competing selves toward a common vision.
A year in review and reset—designing what comes next.
Foundational Insights
Core principles drawn from Adler, Dyer, Gladwell, Campbell, Dispenza—and eight times around the world.
The Road Made by Walking
To be wild isn't to be lost. Wildness is how we're found again—in nature, in silence, in the fierce curiosity that draws us toward the unknown. We spend the first twenty years stuffing our true selves into a bag, then the next forty fishing those pieces back out.
Where Your Wound Is, Your Wisdom Grows
That's the place the world told you to hide. But it's also where your genius waits to be mined. We weren't born to stay intact—like trees, we're here to shed, to break open, and begin again.
The Opposite of Courage
The opposite of courage isn't fear. It's fitting in. Most people are terrified of being alone because that's where the truth lives. The soul's door was never locked—you don't need to impress the doorkeeper. Just walk in. It's your door.
Freedom Is the Pause
Freedom is the pause between impulse and action. That space is where your future gets written. When you ignore your original voice, you betray the only true thing you have—yourself.
You Might As Well Be Yourself
Everyone else is already taken—and even they're not doing it well. Your identity is just patterns you've practiced until they feel permanent. But identity isn't fixed—it's rehearsed.
Frequently Asked Questions
How is this different from other self-help books?
This isn't theory—it's applied wisdom from eight circumnavigations of the planet, tested in environments from Arctic isolation to global chaos. Each practice is rooted in lived experience and backed by frameworks from Adler, Dyer, Gladwell, Campbell, and Dispenza. It's a 52-week protocol, not a weekend workshop.
Do I need to start at Week 1?
While the quarters build progressively, you can enter at any point based on where you are in your journey. However, Q1 (Reclaiming Responsibility) provides the foundation that makes the rest more powerful. Think of it as a spiral—you can revisit any week as you grow.
What makes someone ready for this work?
You're ready when you're tired of drifting and ready to navigate. When you recognize that blame keeps you powerless and responsibility gives you agency. When you're willing to author yourself instead of being authored by your circumstances or past.
How much time does each week require?
Each week includes a core insight, a practice, and integration work. Expect 15-30 minutes daily for reading and reflection, plus time to implement the practices in your actual life. This isn't about adding to your to-do list—it's about shifting how you approach what you're already doing.
Can I use this with coaching or therapy?
Absolutely. This protocol complements therapeutic work beautifully. Many coaches and therapists use these frameworks with clients. The practices help bridge insight into embodiment—turning understanding into lived experience.
What if I miss a week or fall behind?
The journey isn't about perfection—it's about direction. If you miss a week, simply pick up where you left off. Some weeks will resonate more than others. Some you'll revisit multiple times. This is a lifetime practice, not a one-time completion.
Your Declaration of Authorship
I am not my past. I am not my trauma. I am not my mistakes.
I am not responsible for other people's feelings, opinions, or choices.
I am responsible for my own thoughts, actions, and responses.
I choose to author my future instead of being haunted by my past.
The pen is in your hand. What will you author next?