A couple of days ago, I learned that someone I worked with when I was a full-time recovery coach had passed away.

I really liked him. He took his recovery seriously and even started his own weekly recovery meetings to help others.

I’m sad to hear that he’s gone.

But I’m also grateful that before he passed, he found sobriety and got to experience life on the other side of addiction.

Had a good time working security at the Dolly Parton tribute show last night at the Brown County Music Center.

I'm not a huge Dolly fan by any means, but the place was nearly sold out and the crowd seemed to be having a great time.

Not every show has to be my thing to be a good night at work.

Take credit for what you actually did.

Not more. Not less.

Do not inflate your role to look impressive, and do not shrink it because someone else helped.

Honest credit means being clear about the decisions you made, the work you directed, the problems you solved, and where others contributed.

Accuracy builds more credibility than exaggeration ever will.

https://jimlunsford.com/discipline-dispatch-keep-credit-honest/

I am having the hardest time staying focused today.

My brain is bouncing all over the place, and to make matters worse, my remote connection from work to my home computer keeps giving me trouble.

So between my attention span and technology refusing to cooperate, today has not exactly been a productivity masterclass.

Some days you get shit done.

Some days you fight the tools and your own brain.

Day 2 of my two days off ended up being filled with appointments and obligations.

Meanwhile, my Claude usage reset, so the modernization project was grinding away in the background while life happened.

Now the days off are over, and the schedule is about to get ugly.

I’m set to work 48 hours over the next three days between the jail and the music center.

Time to shift gears.

Most mornings, you already know what the right move is.

The trouble starts when you give yourself time to think about it.

Five more minutes.

One more reason.

A little negotiation with yourself.

The PERIOD Code puts it plainly:

"Do the next right thing before the mind builds a case against it."

Not glamorous.

That's why it works.

"Discipline is where the Code becomes real."

Stop arguing with what you already know.

The PERIOD Code: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HMM612Y6

My Grok Bots suddenly stopped working.

Turns out I had burned through my usage.

No warning. No heads-up. Just, “Nope, you’re done.”

Would have been nice to know before I started wondering what the hell broke.

Today was a day full of building and repair.

I finished phase two of the backyard project by cleaning and repairing our privacy fence. Combined with the new fencing from phase one, all of the fence work is finally done.

Next up is phase three: laying rock for the new sitting area I’m building.

The weather was perfect, I spent most of the day outside, and it was an excellent way to use a day off.

Physical work. Visible progress. Hard to beat that.

I did not set out to become good at reading people.

I learned by watching myself in recovery, watching behavior in loss prevention, assessing situations in law enforcement, and spending years trying to understand why people do what they do.

Eventually, I realized all of those experiences had been teaching me the same skill.

https://jimlunsford.com/i-learned-to-read-people-without-realizing-i-was-learning/

Two full days off starting today.

No jail shifts. No trying to cram everything else into the edges of a workday.

Just two days where the schedule finally belongs to me.