When I first joined the Not Dead Yet Life group, I was recently sober from alcohol and carrying a ton of wreckage,  anger, depression, frustration, all mostly rooted in my past and a consistently negative outlook. I felt stuck, like I was trapped in a loop where everything I put out came back at me. NDY changed that.

The shift didn’t happen overnight, it started as soon as I was willing to look honestly at what I was projecting. NDYL taught me a simple and wildly effective truth. You get what you put out. Once I saw how much of my mental and physical energy was negative, it became obvious why that’s what I kept receiving. From there I began to change what I put out.

The group introduced practical, simple tools that I could actually use every day. The World Champion Morning Routine and 90 Day Alchemist helped me find my ideal routines and really focus on what my goals are and my accountability to them.

Breath work, learning to control my breath, gave me immediate access to calm, clarity, and regulation. Seeing how profoundly the breath affects the body hooked me, and it became a cornerstone of my practice. Practicing gratitude shifted my attention from what I lacked to what was present; that attention shift rewired my emotional baseline. Taking radical accountability helped me own my actions and their outcomes, removing blame and gave me a sense of agency.

I defiantly say came into it skeptical, like I’m sure a lot of people do. But the simplicity is where the magic lived. Implementing these practices little by little, consistently turned my negativity into momentum. I was genuinely surprised at how quickly things shifted when I actually practiced what I learned. Intention and consistency really changed everything!

Over the last two plus years since I joined NDYL, I’ve pushed my life to levels I didn’t think possible. Me, yes, me is now someone I’m proud of. I attribute that growth directly to the NDYL family. This also reflects very heavily on my personal life as a father and a husband. Not that I was a bad father or husband before but there was definitely room for improvement.

NDYL isn’t just a program, it’s a family. I never met a group of people more committed to each other’s success. It’s the ultimate booster club, everyone shows up to stoke each other’s fire. It doesn’t matter what lights your flame, someone in NDYL is right behind you, throwing gas on it.

NDYL helped me disconnect from the trauma and habits that were keeping me small, taught me practical tools I could actually use, and gave me a community that wanted my success as much as I wanted it. That combination turned survival into growth and now, two plus years into my journey, I’m living proof that if you want to change you can. It’s going to be hard but worth it.