M.AG.I.C. 4 Teens

Twelve years ago, we discovered Jason had ADHD. Before that diagnosis I realized he needed support with concentration and began a Morning Ritual with him, an extension of my own FIREDANCE ritual. As years passed, some elements of that fell away, but by the time he got to Jr. High we re-instituted it. He was under medication and in therapy and in the special needs tract.

. For years I’d been frustrated: I get paid VERY well for life coaching and stress counseling. And working with a team of medical professionals using what they called “The Barnes Technique” (!) I was told that the clients liked my interventions best.

Can you IMAGINE how frustrating that was? To be able to help STRANGERS but not my own son? But when the Pandemic hit, home-schooling became our only reasonable option, and I saw a possibility: with Tananarive’s hovering and microscopic examination of every action and response, and the help and full engagement of the medical professionals in Jason’s wellness circle, I would design a program to help Jason take maximum advantage of his potential.

After all (I reckoned) NO HUMAN BEING takes 100% advantage of their resources. All of the success philosophies and focus/alignment techniques I’d studied were about increasing BOTH potential and PERCENTAGE of the potential in use.

In other words, I reckoned that if I could measure it, I could improve it. And if doctors believed he had 60% of the average potential in some arena (say, focus), but the average person used only about 50% of that…