¶ Intro / Opening
I had a crippling anxiety disorder. It took me into my early 20s to understand exactly what it was not knowing what was wrong was the toughest thing for me the moment I knew exactly what anxiety was, how I could control a little things like breathing exercises, and so many different life upgrades. That is what took me from someone who was a victim of my life for the first 23 years. And to someone who was saying, You know what, life can
throw anything at me. I'm going to spend the rest of my days being as strong and capable as I possibly can.
¶ Introducing guest James Whittaker and his work as a peak performance coach
Welcome to successful with ADHD. I'm Brooke Shipman. Let's get started. Everybody today, we have James Whitaker on the successful with ADHD podcast. It is an absolute pleasure to meet you, James on the podcast.
Brooke, thank you so much for having me. I just enjoy seeing your face first thing in the morning. So thank you very much for having me here.
I love when people say that on the West Coast right? And like No, it's not the morning you're nice and get a you at your coffee you had whatever else you needed in the morning to biohack your day and it's midday here on the East Coast.
You're already tired from the day Hey, you had to get my daily routine ready for my two young kids this morning. I'm also on solo parenting Judy this week while my wife is out your way. She's in Florida on a big work trip. So it's been a bit of a hectic morning in the Whitaker household today.
Okay, well today we have James Whitaker, who helps 2 million people each month to win the day and he personally has coached Olympic gold medalists. billion dollar CEOs, not million, but billion and Special Forces operators. His superpower is helping ambitious but frustrated people gain immediate clarity on what they want and give them a bulletproof plan to achieve it. James is also a three times
bestselling author. He's a Success Magazine speaker and executive producer of the multimillion dollar Think and Grow Rich film. How cool so some of you might have read, Think and Grow Rich, he wrote thinking Grow Rich, the legacy is that correct?
That's right. I also wrote a follow up book called Andrew Carnegie's mental dynamite co authored with Napoleon Hill and released with the Napoleon Hill Foundation.
No, no big deal. So today, we are here to talk about James suspected ADHD. With that he'll also be sharing some of his tools and tips to help people like us and like himself to win the day and be successful with ADHD. So James, tell us about your journey. I know you are self diagnosed. And so when was that aha moment that you figured, okay, I think I might have it.
¶ James shares about his struggles with crippling anxiety and feeling lost in his early 20s
Well, there are moments of comparison that I think are really interesting. So I had an older brother who performed very well, academically, and we're just very different people, we have an amazing relationship, but to see how well he could apply himself to study, and how well he was able to grasp the concepts that were taught to him. And I was very different. I didn't want to be in the classroom, I had a difficult time concentrating. And my brain was always racing at a million
miles an hour. And when you have that natural comparison, and you're in an environment like high school, where they tell you that the exam that you're studying for is going to determine the rest of your life. It's a very difficult position to be in. So the things that I really struggled with at that age, in particular that were diagnosed are things like anxiety, I had a crippling anxiety disorder. It took me until my early 20s, to understand exactly what it was.
And the fact that I didn't, we can talk a little bit about labels a bit later on. But not knowing what was wrong was the toughest thing for me the moment I knew exactly what anxiety was, how I could control a little things like breathing exercises, and so many different life upgrades. That is what took me from someone who was a victim of my life for the first 23 years. And to someone who was saying, You know what, life can throw
anything at me. I'm going to spend the rest of my days being as strong and capable as I possibly can.
¶ The panic attack at age 23 while working alone at a liquor store became a turning point
Wow. Okay. So that's amazing. You've rewired your brain. And you gave us a little tip about breathing. A little big tip about breathing and I'm sure you have plenty of other tips to come. But crippling anxiety. It's amazing that when people don't know they have ADHD and they don't have the symptoms manage. That's where the anxiety really comes in. And some therapists out there actually don't believe in generalized anxiety disorders, and generalized anxiety disorders for individuals with
ADHD. find it interesting. So I also have anxiety and was diagnosed with an anxiety disorder before I had the ADHD diagnosis. So was it the ADHD GE diagnosis or awareness that helps you overcome some of the anxiety symptoms.
¶ Learning tools to manage anxiety through breathing, personal development books, and upgrading his life
You know what it was, for me, it was taking a very brutal and honest assessment of absolutely everything that I was doing in my life, eating crappy processed food, drinking too much alcohol and sugary drinks, smoking cigarettes, hanging around deadbeats, all of these different not not reading.
Well, I'm glad. I'm glad you're not hanging around deadbeats now because I wouldn't be in that circle, right? For sure.
For sure. And you know what relationships or relationships are the key like you really are, if you're looking around the four or five or six people you spend the most time with, they are your future, and if that scares you, and get the hell out of there. So it was for me focusing on all of those different things. And I just, I didn't really understand all of
that. And the moment that I started reading books, so I wanted to find everything I could, I wanted to study everything I could about peak performance, relationships, resilience, mental health, physical health, fitness, nutrition, everything. And that's what I have been doing now for about 17 years. So that was a very, very different, how can you expect to have a good relationship within if you haven't got the foundation set? That's like that so much about we can talk about like advanced
complex strategies. But for people who don't have the basics dialed in, like even things like your living environment and your working environment, like are they full of clutter? Or do you make sure that they're organized, so they're not distracting you making sure that you don't have things like chaos? Yeah, absolutely. Even even like, to the extent that I don't even like having, I don't like seeing alcohol, or junk food or sugary drinks. I don't like seeing that stuff,
anywhere. Like it just it just I want to be so focused on that peak performance and things that are going to bring out my best. And I know that sounds like a lot of effort and almost too much of a focus. But I have very big goals and very big responsibilities. And I want to make sure my entire ecosystem is set up for me to win because there are a lot of people who depend on me, and who have given me this opportunity.
What was your motivation? Did you just get around the right people? Were you lucky or did something happen in your life that gave you that motivation to optimize your peak performance?
¶ Getting an MBA in Boston expanded James' perspective and showed him what was possible
Yeah, and of course, it wasn't like a straight. It wasn't like a straight line on the way up, it was a bit like a stock market graph of sort of going up and down but always trending in the in the right direction. The moment I made that big decision, a huge turning point for me was at the age of 28, when I moved from Brisbane, Australia, to do an MBA in Boston. So as far away from Brisbane as you could possibly get going to Boston, Massachusetts, that was a huge change.
Did you get a day back when you flew?
I think when you land you land before the planes even taken off, but then when you get back to Australia, I think it is two days later. Yeah, it's really, it's really weird. And that that program was nine months Boston, three months, Shanghai and China. So I was completely out of my comfort
zone. I didn't know anyone. And what I started to see in the entrepreneurial world that I just never been exposed to, we're seeing people my age and younger, who were starting businesses, they were pitching investors, they were raising money. And that was when I thought to myself, if these people are doing it, then I can do it too. That was a huge moment of possibilities for me
and self belief. So that was what definitely one of the biggest shifts in terms of that inner work that led to a lot of the projects that you mentioned earlier that I've been involved in since then.
So what made you decide to go from Brisbane to Boston,
I just had this. A lot of people from Australia go to the UK. You know, UK is got pretty crappy weather. food's not great. I don't really have a huge no offense to everyone who lives in the UK. I've always identified more with like the American culture. And America is just a cool place to be people come here particularly to LA where I live, people come here to follow their dreams. And that's a really motivating environment to
to be in. And where I grew up in Australia, there's typically just a few industries that people go into like financial services, government, mining, that type of thing. So once I came over here, I then met my now wife after being here for a year and now we have two children, and the opportunities for the work that I do and the relationships that I have with organizations like the Napoleon Hill Foundation, and Success
Magazine. I'm very comfortable here and I've got a very clear roadmap of the things that need to be achieved. And this is the this is the place to be maybe Australia long term possibly.
I love Australia too. By the way. I studied abroad there for five months in Sydney and went to Brisbane went to Melbourne went to Fiji went to New Zealand's it's beautiful people are so nice there. So you've obviously had a lot of success and we're going to talk about those success tips but I really want people to get a picture of what life was like for you when you were In toxic relationships, you were smoking like how did how all of a sudden Did you just stop? I know you said it's not
linear. And it had it was like a stock market graph. But like, what got you to get motivated
¶ Details on the pivotal panic attack at the liquor store and call to his mother afterwards
for that?
Yeah, great question. There are some moments in life where for whatever reason, you just wake up with a feeling of saying, I just don't want to do this anymore. But the biggest turning point that I mentioned, when I was 23, I was working at a liquor store at the time, just a part time job. And they said to me that you're going to open the store alone for the first time. And for anyone else, that'd be like, cool, I get to work and hang out
by myself. For me, that was the ultimate situation of anxiety being in a situation that you couldn't escape from. And of course, when you're in there, you have all these moments of like, you know, what happens if I have like this anxiety attack, and the way that manifested for me is that I would either faint or throw up, or both. And if you're doing that, that's, you know, someone can come in and rob the store, and any number of
things can happen. And it was a 22 minute window, it always happened basically, at 22 minutes. And it's so funny, all the work now that I do, we're thinking Grow Rich, just as we can think and grow rich, we can think and grow poor. And that's what I was doing. I was willing these circumstances, without me consciously even being aware of it. And sure enough, that happened. And the only person that I trusted to speak with about this, I mean, this is a Sunday morning, I didn't I was
so nervous. The night before. I was in bed early, I tried to do all of these different things. I fainted, I threw up, and I was so sick. And it was such a horrible moment in my life, it still gives me chills talking about it. I actually called my mom, she was the only person I trusted with this. And she came down and sat with me. And it was just such an embarrassing thing to even, to even think about. And then we came home and I was absolutely inconsolable. So someone came in and relieved my
shift. Of course, that person had no idea what I was going through, they thought that I was perhaps hungover from from the night before or something like that. That was the big breaking point. For me, where I thought if I can't hold down a job, there is no place for me left on this planet. And an absolute tears. That was where I was like, Look, I can't live like this anymore. What kind of life is this, like, this is this is not alive? What am I even doing
here? They weren't suicidal thoughts as in like, I need to go and commit self harm right now. It's just like, I just wish a spaceship would come and is transport me away from this. And I have no doubt that if this situation didn't happen, that would have definitely led to a lot of those really, you know, a lot darker thoughts. And my mom looked me in the eye and she tapped me on the head in the heart and said, you have everything you need to succeed
right here. And right here. And then she printed out these documents and what anxiety was. And she showed me things on breathing. And then I started printing out a couple of quotes that I put on my bedroom wall, things like we are what we repeatedly do. Excellence is not an act but a habit. Other quotes, like life is not about finding yourself. It's about creating yourself. They were the things that led me to go and make that massive shift. And
since then everything changed. I developed a low tolerance for wanting to be out late at night and sit around nightclubs where you can't hear people talk and everyone's just drinking, although I did that, you know, not as much but
and in Australia, you could do it 18 Enough. Right? Exactly. Yeah.
¶ How an interview with Dr. Daniel Amen influenced James' view on eliminating alcohol
And then even you know, you and I, our mutual friend, Dr. Daniel Amon, an amazing guy. I interviewed him and he spoke about the role of alcohol. And I have noticed even since then, that I don't even really have like my taste not that I was ever a big drinker. My desire and taste for alcohol has waned, it's almost completely eliminated. It wasn't such a cataclysmic event, like I mentioned earlier, that one was like, I just woke up one morning
and just went cool. There's no place for this in my life anymore. I have a very big mission that I'm on. And I am very clear on my career purpose and my family purpose. If I have alcohol even a little bit, I'm not going to sleep as well. And I'm going to wake up irritable, if I'm irritable, it means I have a bad relationship with my wife and my kids, and they deserve better. And I want to be a better husband and father. And it means that I won't be able to
apply myself in my work. And I want to help everyone on the planet to activate their winning life so they can win the day to help others do the same. So there is no place for alcohol in that equation. So there's some of the sort of transitions that I've gone through.
Yeah, so you were very clear on your why behind why you got rid of alcohol in your life, and there was no place for it. And unless you are clear, it can be a challenge I'm sure to completely give up. And it's a social stigma we know and it's the only drug that people ask me why you don't do, right.
For sure. Yeah. And what's what's funny is that if you're going to meet someone for like a beer, you can end up going and getting an Uber and if you're if you're catching an Uber, you end up having a few drinks and then you eat crappy food and it's expensive as well to go on to go out somewhere and spend like $12 on a beer or $20 on a cocktail like you're paying double Get this crap in your body and feel bad the next day. And you mentioned the why there and the why is very important.
But to me, it was more around the who, like, who am I? What is my, what is my role on this on this earth? And who do I need to be to make that a reality. So that's, I'm very, very aware of who I am and what I need to do to maintain that high performance. And that is a recommitment to that every single day. And I think most people, they're sort of waiting for a line they cross. For me, it's a recommitment, every
single day. And that is over the long run, how days turn into weeks and into months turn into years, and that becomes your
¶ The importance of clarity around "who" you want to become, not just "why"
life.
So the way and the hill is really important for you to sustain this lifelong habit change. Because drinking for many of us is a habit. And yes, it could be an addiction, too. But it is just one of those social things that we do to unwind. And especially with anxiety, and ADHD. It numbs us. So in the moment, it might feel good, but then after it feels worse, because it's a depressant, so it's gonna make
us more depressed. So I think that's really important on what you shared in knowing who you want to be, and who you're doing this for yourself, right, and your family, and why you're doing it.
Yeah, and a lot of people when they make a little bit of change in their life, they want to reward themselves with pleasure. And Viktor Frankl spoke about those who don't have a clear purpose in life distract themselves with pleasure. So I like to think about it as once you've created some momentum, you reward yourself with more momentum, or loftier goals. Of course, it's important to be present and stop and smell the roses and recognize how far you've come.
But you've got to not reward yourself with punishment or something that's going to cause your body pain like crappy food or, or alcohol. It's just going to knock you off course.
Yeah, no, I appreciate that. Like, you build momentum with more momentum and bigger actions. I talk about that in my upcoming book on ADHD overwhelmed and underwhelmed. So yay, I knew we were on the same page here. So tell us now you have, obviously a lot of accomplishments. What would you say your daily success tips are so people with ADHD anxiety can get on the path of winning the day and feeling successful.
¶ James explains his "Win the Day" morning routine with key steps
My win the day routine is very, very simple. It's very disciplined, but it's pretty comprehensive at the same time. A lot of people find it unusual that because I talk about winning the day, they find it weird when I let them know that there is not a single day in my entire life where I've woken up and gone. Wow, I am so grateful for this gift of being alive. I hate waking up all I want to do is close my eyes.
Yeah, exactly. You know, when your brain is working a million miles an hour, constantly, you need a lot more sleep. So I always wake up tired. You throw two young kids in a mix. And you just you know, you always feel exhausted, especially first thing in the morning. And so what I do is once my feet hit the ground, that's when I acknowledge that the day is there to be won or lost. And I make the decision to win. But that's what I call the
acknowledgement phase. And I move on to the sacrifice phase, which is proving that I'm going to turn up for this day that's doing something that you don't want to do that to me is the cold shower. It's a five minute cold shower, no hot water at all. I step into the cold shower, I have when the day written on my my bracelet here. And while I'm in there, I do I focus on my breathing and I get centered for the day and you feel amazing after the cold shower. And then the next step
from there is I go outside. And this is something that I had a conversation with my wife around how important this is I go outside, I sit in the sunshine. And I do my morning journal where I look at what happened a year ago because I've been doing my journal now for more than 700 days. And it pops up as a recap from the year before. And I write down what was unique about
the last 24 hours. And then I add in what three things I'm going to do today that are going to make today a win, not 10 things, three things, simple things to do that are a mixture of business, family, and physical or mental health. And then I focus on what am I going to feel gratitude for not think gratitude, but actually feel gratitude. And then I exhale with a smile. That's what I know
I've done that correctly. And then I write down a lesson if there's a lesson from the last 24 hours, which is not always the case but but sometimes there isn't. It's interesting to capture that. That is it for me. The moment I have done that I am full of energy for the rest of the day. Absolutely nothing can stop me but for people who haven't taken the time to do that give space to themselves. There have been times a lot of a
lot of trial and error. Our daily routines naturally evolve as we go through different phases of life. The moment I try and be the hero of the family without getting myself sorted first. That's the moment the whole machine breaks down. That's what happens if I try and make like a fancy breakfast before about the time to myself. It's just a horrible. It's a horrible outcome. So yeah, getting sad, first of all, yeah, that's that everything I just shared, there is the most
critical part of my day. And it's what enables me to be highly effective. Even if I don't feel motivated that
¶ We discuss how a morning routine impacts the rest of your day
day, that miracle morning really changed the way that I took a look at the day. And I also feel like if I don't have my morning routine to me, then the day starts with chaos and finishes with chaos. And I'm constantly in that heightened state of anxiety and my central nervous system just
as all over the place. And for individuals with ADHD, we don't need to do 10 million things in the morning to have a morning routine, like James said, it could literally just being touching the feet on the ground, and then taking a cold shower, that cold exposure, or drinking some water, it doesn't have to be 510 15 things for yourself in the morning, we can build up to it or not. But as long as what you do in the morning is for you, then you can focus on the rest of your family afterwards.
Absolutely. And then one thing that people underestimate is the evening routine. And I won't go into what I do for that, which is it's nowhere near as detailed as the morning. But the one thing I do every single night is before I go to sleep, there's a quote that says never go to bed without a request to your subconscious. Never go to bed without a request to your subconscious. Because that's the final thought that you have that your brain is going to focus on
while you're asleep. Your brain is not as stimulated with all of these different things because your eyes are closed, and your ears are shut down a little bit, you don't have that exposure. So your brain can get to work on making all these things a reality and processing all the things that have happened. So even planting a question in there or a problem that you would like a solution to, and just allow your brain to figure it out while you're asleep. It's
unbelievably powerful. So every night before I go to bed, as I close my eyes, I go to bed with a request to my subconscious. Is there something that I want? Is there something that I want to dwell on? Or is it something that I need a solution to? It's made a huge difference.
Interesting. I have never heard of that I've heard of, you know, evening prayers or gratitude. I'm interested to learn more about that. Because you're making a request to yourself in the ADHD brain, we can have that problem in overthinking and having a difficult time relaxing our brains. So now we're requesting our brains and our subconscious to do something while we're sleeping. So what can you give me an example of one that you use or have used?
¶ James shares the practice of making a "request to your subconscious" before bed
It can be even a positive affirmation, like if I'm speaking on stage the next day, which ties into things like mental rehearsal, which is, you know, some pretty advanced stuff that you talk about with mental rehearsal. But it can even be like, Look, I'm so happy and grateful for how well this speech is going to go tomorrow. I'm so excited to meet all these different people. Or another one could be look I'm hosting, I'm hosting an event coming up, it's really important that I get some
amazing people there. Let's figure it out. And even just writing down the problem on a piece of paper next to you can be a good thing to do. But most people if your alternative is looking through tick tock videos, or reading Lord forbid news articles before you go into bed, see the difference between that negative energy that you're exposing yourself to Yeah,
garbage in garbage out, right. Yeah, yeah, exactly. We're trying
to connect with positive energy and the frequency of our future self that we can feel grateful for in the present. That's what we're doing. We're just going to be calm on that, and even even an acknowledgement of gratitude for your family and your situation. I actually tried to get my four year old daughter. Someone told me that they always asked their child what they did to win the day that day. And I love that and I thought, wow, how have I not done that with my own
children? My daughter just won't do it for whatever reason. She's just like, she thinks it's a funny game that she just won't engage with.
Because your your her dad, that's, yeah, have someone else tell her to do it. And then she'll do it.
I'll get you in broke and you can take care of it. But I did ask her recently, I said what do you want to say thank you to the universe for and that's now what we do. It's a routine before we go to bed. She says she says thank you for something amazing that happened that day. So I'm trying to sort of educate her that when you're grateful for something it's going to encourage and stimulate more positive and rewarding things to come back to you.
Absolutely. Absolutely. So you are self expressed, you have developed and you're developed your self development continues to grow. What would you tell someone who's listening in now who's just at the beginning of that self development journey?
Isolation kills? I think you've got to get Around the smartest, happiest, most successful people you can possibly find, I mean, even if you've got to pay like make an investment is to get in the right room, the right conversation in the right room at the right time, can completely change your life like that is so critical that people who are stuck alone in their thoughts, I have a client of mine who lives in a remote location, he's had a really hard time gaining traction, and he's
someone who's strong ADHD diagnosis. But when you're in isolation, you're just it's so easy for that momentum just to die. And a lot of people are trying to get from zero to 100. But I think if you can get from zero to one, or even zero, yeah, that momentum is what is what makes it so for me prioritizing time to go into surround myself with the most influential
people. I'm not saying people are better or worse than other people, but the ones who are like minded who have the success and the lives that I want an example that is every September, it's the first thing that goes into my calendar I go to, it's called the wizard Academy, just outside of Austin, Texas called the Pathfinder mastermind. It's three days down there. It's phenomenal to be around those people. It gives me motivation.
There's a recency bias when we see people, it's why typically, we engage more on social media posts of people that we have seen recently. That's why it's important to get out there. And the more people who know who you are and where you're going, then the more people who can help you achieve that mission.
¶ The value of surrounding yourself with people who inspire you
Absolutely made. The first thing in my book actually is to buddy up. Because you can't do things in isolation. You never want to be the smartest person in the room. I you know, especially working from home. That's why I have a team so we can a help more people, but also we can bounce ideas off of each other because it can be so isolating. And with a pandemic, that just happens. That's why there's so much more anxiety and depression in middle schoolers and up because of that
isolation. I know Dr. Ayman was talking about that, too.
Yeah, it's crazy. I mean, the prescription sleeping pills have gone up considerably as well during, during COVID at the cost of people who were stuck in their homes for people who are perhaps military veterans or entrepreneurs at the end of their tether or stay at home parents who have had a very tough time with with sick kids. I mean, that isolation is what
just destroys lives. And there's a real cost there in terms of domestic violence, substance abuse, suicide, that has just not been part of the narrative, which has been really disappointing.
Yeah, thank you for sharing that. How did you get involved in the thinking grow rich? And what type of people would you recommend to read your book? Books?
¶ How James got involved with Think and Grow Rich and writing the legacy book
Good question. Good question. So thinking Grow Rich is the book that changed my dad's life was released in 1937. It's the best selling self help book of all time. So I was always aware of its power. But I grew up listening to Jim Rohn. On those audio recordings, Jim Rohn, the classic American personal development icon, I still listen to his stuff today. And Jim's biggest influence was Napoleon Hill. And Napoleon Hill's biggest influence was
Andrew Carnegie. So it's interesting to see who like the root mentor is of a lot of these things. And so I got involved. When I had a meeting with the producers, they were making a movie of thinking grow rich. And I said to them, I just basically said, here's what you should do. There's 13 principles of thinking Grow Rich. First of all, make sure you release a book alongside the movie, because that's what everyone does. movies don't become movies, unless there's a book
about it beforehand. People don't naturally identify as much with names like Henry Ford and Thomas Edison, the very male dominated old school characters, who of course, were very successful. But what about some people today that we can learn from and connect with a little bit more so they just said, We love the idea. Can you do it? And I said, Yeah, I'll knock it out of the park for
my arm. Yeah, yeah, exactly. And that's when
I came on board as executive producer of the film thinking Grow Rich to legacy, author of the book Thinking Grow Rich, the legacy I interviewed people like Rob Dyrdek, Barbara Corcoran, Bob Proctor, so many other amazing people. Then Don green, who's the head of the Napoleon Hill Foundation called me one day, and he said, we have an unreleased Napoleon Hill manuscript. Would you like to be involved in editing this and annotating this and so I think I added about 10 or 15,000 words
in this manuscript. I brought in Sharon Lechter. To help contribute as well. Sharon, like the road thinking is great.
I actually have Yeah, I have her book. Exit rich. Yeah. Nice.
A new one. Yeah, yeah. And she also wrote all the rich dad poor dad books with Robert Kiyosaki. Yeah,
yeah, she's Yeah.
Yeah, she's, uh, she's great. I'll look at that sign copy and everything. I love it.
You know what I you know, what I love about her is the question that she asked, why not? It's just simple, perfect to the point when you're trying to make a decision. Yeah, absolutely.
And when I saw her share, and we spoken on stage at a bunch of different events together, she had reached a point in her career where she wanted to retire and then she changed her mindset around that to refi instead of retire I thought that was such a cool thing because sometimes we get a little bit down on ourselves and think that cool, you know, maybe it's someone else's time. But hey, it's so awesome to see Sharon, just keep stepping it up.
I like that re fire because you know, neurons that fire together, or that wire together, fire together, right? So that's kind of a play on to that. So that's cool. So with that being said, what type of people should read that book?
Anyone who feels like they have a sense that there's more to them for life? You know, a lot of people reach this point where they feel like, is this it? Or how did I get here, or they just feel like there's more contribution. I've sat down and work with people who are unbelievably successful in one area, maybe they're very strong physically, or I've got a lot of money in the bank, and I've had very successful
businesses. But inevitably, the people who feel like they're treading water in life, it's because they're not clear on who they are, and where they want to go. So for anyone who feels like they're treading water, and they want to get a bit more clarity on who they are and where they want to go, than to go and see stories and Think and Grow Rich, the legacy and Andrew Carnegie's mental dynamite will give them a big boost.
¶ Where to find James on social media and connect with his work
That's so cool. All right. So if someone wants to get in touch with you, James, where can they reach you?
Just look up James Whitaker or win the day, I'm hanging out on Instagram a bit tick tock as well as a good platform. So come and find me and say hi,
but you're not scrolling. We're doomed scrolling before you go to sleep. Let's just be clear.
So I set a goal for myself. It was it about a year ago, I said I want to get 10 million views on Tik Tok. And I didn't have any views on Tik Tok at that point. And it was just a simple mindset shift. So of course, I needed to post
consistently. But I also needed to stop consuming so I changed my mind and instead of consuming on tick tock, I was only going to create so I don't allow myself to consume, which is not that much unless I've created first an hour I think 24 million views on tick tock in the space of 12 months so little for that really, really well.
I probably need to hire you for tic tock and then maybe you can hire me for Instagram. I don't know we can. But that's amazing. I love you set your intention, you know your why you know your how and if you're who so that's great. All right. Well, thank you for joining us on successful with ADHD and I look forward to spreading the message even more on Instagram.
Thanks so much for having me, bro.
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