The Badass Method™
Get Better at Choosing Better
A practical 4-step framework for making magic without the magical thinking
Before You Learn
You Must Unlearn
Before there was a method, there was a mess, and a sneaky voice proclaiming with a lot of Italian hand gestures and Jewish guilt, “You made terrible choices. How are you going to climb out of this midlife rubble?”
Underneath that noise was a yearning for what had vanished, and hope that my life could still be full of bigly dreams and beauty.
What emerged from that gritty season of midlife rebirthing became a repeatable framework: The Badass Method™.
It started with something deceptively simple: learning to catch the patterns I was living so I could stop letting them choose for me.
Be warned. It’s uncomfortable at times. There are a lotta crappy stories and Doubt Goblins that would much rather keep you where you are than let you live La Bella Vita.
But, if you want less mess and more miracles…. just saying.
How The Badass Method™ Works
“If personal development and manifestation had a baby, it would be called The Badass Arts.”
You already know more than you're living, and you desire more too. What a conundrum, eh?
The problem is that knowing something and being able to live it when it matters are two very different things.
One reason is that your brain gets very good at putting things on autopilot. That's useful when you're driving a car, walking the pooch, or boiling water. Less useful when what's running automatically is an old story, reaction, relationship pattern or way of responding when you're afraid.
Why? Because knowing better is no match for a pattern you’ve practiced a thousand times without realizing it.
The Badass Method™ is how we get better at catching ourselves and choosing better.
The Badass Method™ in 4 Steps
Notice. Interrupt. Practice. Intend.
“We get to participate in creating our lives. I say do it with more soul, sass and substance.”
If it sounds simple, it is. If it sounds hard, give it time.
NOTICE
Catch the pattern, story, reaction or fear running automatically.
INTERRUPT
Create enough space to stop the old response and choose better.
PRACTICE
Use the tools of The Badass Arts™ to respond differently.
INTEND
Move toward what you desire through choice, action and participation.
The goal? A life with more soul, sass, and substance.
Why The Badass Arts™?
Because badassery is an art, something you practice and hone.
The Badass Arts™ are the practices that help you interrupt what’s automatic and choose what happens next.
It’s the art of cultivating a life that's bigger than your fears and truer than your excuses.
The art of trusting yourself.
The art of choosing better.
The art of feeling deeply without letting every feeling run the show.
The art of loving without abandoning yourself.
The art of appreciating what is while creating what you desire.
It’s the art of participating in the creation of your life.
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