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Last updated: 2026-07-10

Book PDFs Index

• Official 3-page distillation of James Clear's Atomic Habits, all Four Laws of Behavior Change + their inversions (1.1-4.6) (source: Index.md)
• Official David Allen Company checklist for the GTD Weekly Review ritual. 11 steps in 3 phases (Get Clear / Get Current / Get Creative), with verbatim sub-instructions (source: Index.md)
• The canonical GTD flowchart: STUFF → what is it → is it actionable → 8 endpoint destinations. Official David Allen Co diagram (source: Index.md)

Start with Why, Simon Sinek

• Sinek argues that most organizations and leaders communicate from the outside in, they tell you what they do, then how they do it, and rarely (if ever) get to why they do it. Truly inspiring leaders and companies invert that order (source: start-with-why.md)
• The Golden Circle: Three concentric rings. Why at the center, How in the middle, What on the outside (source: start-with-why.md)
• The Infinite Game (2019), borrowed from philosopher James Carse. Finite games (chess, football) have fixed rules, known players, clear endpoints. Infinite games (business, politics, life) have shifting players, changeable rules, no finish line (source: start-with-why.md)

Atomic Habits, James Clear

• Clear's core move is to shift attention from goals to systems, and from outcomes to identity (source: atomic-habits.md)
• The Four Laws of Behavior Change: Every habit has a loop: cue → craving → response → reward (source: atomic-habits.md)
• Identity-based habits: don't set a goal ("pass NBHWC"), adopt an identity ("I'm the kind of coach who studies an hour a day") (source: atomic-habits.md)

Designing Your Life, Bill Burnett & Dave Evans

• Designing Your Life (2016) and the follow-up Designing Your Work Life (2020) take the core moves of product design , curiosity, rapid prototyping, iteration, collaboration , and apply them to the squishiest design problem of all: your own life (source: designing-your-life.md)
• The 5 mindsets: Curiosity, Bias to action, Reframing, Awareness (process, not product), Radical collaboration (source: designing-your-life.md)
• A gravity problem is a problem that isn't actionable, so it isn't really a problem at all. It's a situation, a circumstance, a fact of life (source: designing-your-life.md)

Velour, Persona Draft v1

• A solo female R&B artist. Deliberately faceless-ish, you see her in silhouette, hands, shoulders, the back of her neck, a shadow on silk (source: velour-persona-v1.md)
• Audience: Women 28-55, some men in the same age band. Heritage listeners of Sade, Maxwell, Jill Scott, Jhené Aiko, Snoh Aalegra, H.E.R (source: velour-persona-v1.md)

How I Got Started With AI at 54

• Annette used AI to draft articles for her dog rescue website, cutting content operation time by 70-90% (source: how-i-got-started-with-ai-at-54.md)
• Key insights: Using AI well is closer to managing a bright-but-green intern than it is to programming (source: how-i-got-started-with-ai-at-54.md)

Longevity Coach Certification

• An online certification program for fitness and longevity coaches who want to specialize in working with senior citizens (source: longevity-coach-cert.md)
• Market signals: Baby Boomers are the largest, wealthiest cohort in history and aging into the "I need to move better to stay alive" phase (source: longevity-coach-cert.md)

Ajijic Retirement Business

• Annette is the admin of "Friendly Gringos," a Facebook group with 65,000+ members, most of whom are American or Canadian expats over 65 living in or relocating to Ajijic, Jalisco, Mexico (source: ajijic-retirement-business.md)
• Revenue streams: Retire-to-Ajijic book, Menopause + Weight-Loss Coaching, Ajijic-relocation consulting (source: ajijic-retirement-business.md)

Thai Massage Training Retreats

• Weeklong Thai massage training retreats hosted at Annette's Ajijic home. She organizes, finds and hosts the teacher, markets; the teacher delivers the training (source: thai-massage-retreats.md)
• Rough unit economics: 6-10 participants per retreat at $2,000-$3,500 per person for a week (source: thai-massage-retreats.md)

Facebook Group → Book

• A tool/web-app that takes an exported Facebook group data file and turns it into a printable (physical or PDF) book (source: fb-group-books.md)
• First customer: Annette herself, "Retire to Ajijic," built from her own 65,000-member "Friendly Gringos" Facebook group (source: fb-group-books.md)

Menopause + Weight-Loss Coaching

• Annette coaches women through menopause and weight loss , HRT, GLP-1, fitness, and nutrition (source: menopause-coaching.md)
• The sharpened niche: expat-retiree menopause (unique moat) (source: menopause-coaching.md)

Coaching, Legal Landscape

• Colorado is friendly to health coaching. She can legally practice in the coaching lane as long as she stays on the education/motivation/habit side and not the clinical side (source: coaching-legal-landscape.md)
• Key deadline: September 1, 2026. Colorado passed HB25-1220 regulating Medical Nutrition Therapy (source: coaching-legal-landscape.md)

Shared Toolkit

• Catalog of reusable tools, scripts, and patterns that show up across more than one of Annette's projects (source: shared-toolkit.md)
• YouTube Data API pipeline: Fetches videos, channels, playlists, captions; manages playlist membership; creates new playlists; bulk moves (source: shared-toolkit.md)

Sci-fi Novel with AI

• Write a sci-fi novel co-authored with AI (source: scifi-novel.md)
• Existing tool she already has: book-writer/ at C:/Users/annet/book-writer/, a Streamlit app called "Bookforge 300" built around the OpenAI API for long-form book generation (source: scifi-novel.md)