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Welcome

If you're here, your mind probably runs a permanent background program. What if that email landed wrong. What if the tiredness is something serious. What if the money, the kids, the deadline, the weird noise the car made. One worry ends and the next is already clearing its throat.

First thing to know: your what-if machine isn't broken. It's a planning system — the same circuitry that packs your bag and remembers the charger — with the volume stuck on high. It thinks it's keeping you alive. Mostly it's keeping you exhausted.

So here's the deal this program offers, and it's not the one you might expect. We are not going to silence the machine. Nobody can, and the people who promise otherwise are selling something. We're going to do something better: give it a schedule and a fact-checker.

How the six weeks work

• Short sessions, ten to fifteen minutes, about three a week. One skill each, used the same day.
• A forty-five-second worry log, whenever the machine speaks. One line, a quick sort, a rating. This is the raw data everything runs on.
• A thirty-second evening check-in — anxiety, tension, and one yes/no.
• A weekly review where we read your numbers together — including, eventually, the single most persuasive number in this program: the percentage of your worries that actually came true. You'll build that number yourself. It tends to be memorable.

One honest thing

In week two I'll ask you to postpone your worrying to a daily appointment. Postponing worry feels impossible for about four days. Then it doesn't. I'd rather tell you now than surprise you then.

Right now: two short check-ins, your goals, and a reminder time. That's it.