“I can see the life I want. I want my first move to be the right one.”
Then choose the first part you’ll live, and start it in your actual week.
Seven live sessions with a small group of men at your stage, a fourteen-day test in your own week, and a plan in your own words. You choose your first move, and try it before anything is final.
Usually the move gives a real place in your week to something you’ve wanted for a while, the thing you keep putting on a list called “soon”. In a full week, you have to create the space for it, and every subtraction, each thing you let go of, hands back time, energy and attention.
What you want is meant to be lived while you have the health and the energy for it, and the years that give you both don’t wait for a quieter quarter at work.
In five weeks, the work can look like this. You cut one commitment back and give the time it frees to something you want more of. Or you renegotiate a responsibility with the person who shares it. Sometimes it’s a commitment you look at hard and decide to keep. Whichever it is, you say it aloud to a few men at your stage before you start, and you test it for fourteen days before anything larger changes.
When I created space in my own life in 2019, what it gave me first wasn’t a plan. It was the freedom to choose: room to decide what my future would look like. Every chapter since started there. A safari in South Africa for my fiftieth, something I’d wanted all my life. And in April 2023, in Medellín, I met my wife, Ana Milena.
That’s what the space is for.
Often what stands in the way is one of these:
Each is a form of what we call Inherited Momentum: something that keeps running long after it stopped fitting. None of it expires on its own. Left where it is, it carries straight into next year’s calendar.
Often it starts at a turning point you can name: a birthday with a zero or a five on it, the end of a career or the sale of a business, a move, someone’s health. You don’t need one to begin. If you have one, it’s a good reason not to wait for a quieter year.
The question these five weeks answer: What’s my first move toward the life I want?
Here’s the part that usually goes unsaid. For some men, the hesitation isn’t about the commitment at all. It’s the question underneath it: if I change the life I built, do I lose the man who built it?
Take that question seriously. That’s why, before the change touches anything, a focused Continuity Check, drawn from The Continuity Method®, names what has to stay in place: the relationship behind a commitment, the part of a role worth keeping. The first test is deliberate, limited, and small on purpose.
Graduation, not erasure.
Whatever you set down or take up, the man who built this life comes with you.
You don’t have to work out the whole future before you start. We help you choose one manageable change toward the life you want, put it into practice for fourteen days, and use what you learn to decide your next step.
Precision Realignment is five weeks with James and a small group of men at your stage to choose your first move toward the life you want, and start making it in your actual week. Seven small-group sessions across five weeks, Tuesdays and Thursdays for three weeks, then a quiet week while your fourteen-day test finishes, then Activation with the group and a private session with James to finish your Realignment Plan. Activation is the last group session, where you and the group go over what your test showed.
Not therapy. Not hustle culture. Not a mastermind. The difference is in how the five weeks work:
No busywork. It’s built for the analytical man who wants evidence from his own week, not more theory.
One line to the room: what you want the next two years to hold. Then a close look at the five areas of your life: meaning, time, freedom, vitality and connection.
Your turn, in order, on what the week since Session 1 showed. You choose a test partner from the men you’ve heard.
The six places space can come from in a full week, and the three questions every first move answers: what will I begin living sooner, what stands in its way, what stays protected.
Each man says his move and his test: what counts as doing it, what partial means, and three things to watch. James tells each man plainly what he sees in it.
The test is underway. How to read the first days, the conversation still to have, and one rule: adjust only inside what was agreed.
Your turn on what the first week showed, read with the room.
The test is finished and you’ve read it yourself. Two reads with the room, kept separate: did I do it, and is it worth keeping. Then each man’s next step, with its date.
Then your private session with James: forty-five minutes, one to one, to read and finish your Realignment Plan.
In five weeks, the life you want two years from now stops being a picture and starts being your week: a first move you chose, made in your real week and tested for fourteen days, and a plan in your own words for what comes next. Without blowing up what you’ve built.
Sessions 1 to 6. By the end of the second week you’ve chosen your move, said it to the room, and started the fourteen-day test in your own week. The third week’s sessions read the evidence as it comes in.
You make your own Evidence Audit, then the Reading: four short sittings with your log, your audit and your first page, and a draft of your Plan in your own hand. James is in touch during the test, and the WhatsApp line stays open for brief questions about it.
Session 7. Two reads, kept separate: did I do what we agreed, and does the evidence support keeping it. Doing the test and benefiting from it are different questions, and you read them apart. You leave with a next step and a date for taking it.
Forty-five minutes with James, booked after Activation. Your Plan read and finished together, and the one question you’re still holding.
You hear yourself in another man’s answer. That’s what the room adds, and it’s the one thing James can’t give you alone.
Everyone gets his turn, in order, and nobody is put on the spot. Your one line at Session 1, your move at Lab 4, your first week of evidence at Lab 6: each said aloud to men doing the same work.
Two rules, agreed before Session 1. What is said in the room stays in the room. Sessions are recorded for catch-up and for James’s own review, and never shared beyond the men in the room; nothing is published.
At Lab 2 you choose a test partner from the men you’ve heard. Two check-ins during the fourteen days. You answer to the men who heard you and to your own pages, not to James.
A Tuesday session teaches one thing and works it on your own pages, ninety minutes. A Thursday lab is sixty minutes of turns: what your week showed, read with the room. James asks questions and checks that he understands.
At Lab 4 you say your move and your test to the room, and James tells each man plainly what he sees in it, including when the move a man arrives with isn’t the one he’d test first.
The private session is one to one. You bring your draft Plan; James reads it beside you, and you finish it together. The last line is yours.
I built Precision Realignment for the man who wants to change one part of his life properly, with someone beside him while he tests it.
I spent nearly 25 years as a U.S. military officer and helicopter pilot before I began redesigning my own life.
This is The Subtraction Method®, run on the part of your life that matters most right now, with me in the room. I’ll tell you plainly what I see, including when the change you arrive with isn’t the one I’d test first. It’s one move, tested in the real world, so you can see what the evidence says next.
The room is what makes Precision Realignment what it is. Some men would still rather not do this work in a group, and for them there is Private Realignment: six private sessions with James, on Zoom, one to one.
It’s the same work as the room, one to one with James, with your core values as the filter you choose your move by. In the first sessions you look at your life as it is: the life you want two years from now, where your time and energy actually go, the core values you’ll decide by, and the pattern that keeps repeating. Then you choose your first move with James, test it in your own week for fourteen days, and go over what it showed with him. You finish with your Realignment Plan in your own words. Between sessions, the WhatsApp line is open.
It starts with a conversation, not a checkout. Book a 30-Minute Fit Call. If it’s the right fit, James sends you the link after you’ve talked.
$2,500, paid in full.
Session by session, it’s all on the Private Realignment page.
The founding cohort. Paid in full, once.
Direct enrollment through a short readiness check. No application.
Enrollment is open until Monday 25 January, the day before Session 1. Session 1 is Tuesday 26 January at 7:00pm ET; the seven sessions run to Tuesday 23 February, and private sessions are held from 24 to 27 February.
Six to eight men a cohort; the room runs with three or more.
The 72-Hour Cooling-Off Window. If you decide this isn’t the right fit, request a refund by email within 72 hours of purchase. If Session 1 takes place sooner, the window closes then. The refund is the amount paid less the card-processing fee (about three percent), which the payment processor does not return to us. After that, the engagement is non-refundable. If fewer than three men are seated when enrollment closes, you choose the next cohort or a full refund, with no fee deducted.
The Show-Up Guarantee. This is a service commitment, not a money-back guarantee. Attend the seven sessions and your private session (a session caught up on the recording, where James agrees, still counts), complete the intake and your first page before Session 1, take part fully, and ask by email within seven calendar days of your private session. If you believe the engagement didn’t provide meaningful clarity and a practical first move, you receive one additional 60-minute private session at no cost, or comparable support such as written feedback where James judges it would serve you better. It is a one-time extension, not a refund, and it does not guarantee a specific outcome. Full terms.
Want more information first? Book a 30-minute Fit Call with James.
Precision Realignment is complete in itself, with no requirement to buy anything after it. One move can give you enough direction to keep building on your own.
Sometimes it shows you want something larger: a wider redesign. If it does, your Realignment Plan becomes the natural starting point for Authorship by Design™: twelve private sessions across sixteen weeks, where the work shifts from testing one move to designing the whole next chapter.
Every time, you make a decision and take the first step.
If one part of the life you want could start this month, which part would you choose?
No. You complete a short readiness check before purchasing. Authorship by Design has a separate application process.
No. The readiness check is six short questions. If your answers point to another place to start, it shows you where, and the choice is still yours.
Your purchase confirmation gives you the date of Session 1. Your welcome email brings your program area, with the Welcome Packet and your first page to write that night: the life you want two years from now. Your workbook and the session modules open on your fourth day, or on the day of Session 1 if that comes first. The intake follows inside forty-eight hours; it’s where you agree to the room’s two rules, and James reads it before Session 1. The session dates go in your calendar. There’s nothing to book: your private session is booked after Activation, from your program area.
On Zoom, with the group, at 7:00pm ET. The private session is one to one with James. Choose somewhere private where you can be uninterrupted for the full session.
Four Tuesday evenings and three Thursday evenings at 7:00pm ET across the five weeks (ninety minutes on Tuesdays; sixty on Thursdays, ninety for the lab where you say your move), then a forty-five-minute private session: thirty-three days from the first session to your private session. Between sessions, a few lines a day in the log during the fourteen-day test, and four short sittings for the Reading in the quiet week. Before Session 1, the intake and your first page.
Each session is recorded for the men in the room, so you can catch up before the next one. A session caught up on the recording, where James agrees, still counts toward the Show-Up Guarantee. Lab 4 is the one to protect: it’s where you say your move and your test aloud.
Six to eight men at your stage, each working on one move of his own. What is said in the room stays in the room. Every man agrees to that before Session 1. Sessions are recorded for catch-up and for James’s own review, and never shared beyond the men in the room.
You don’t need to arrive with the move already chosen. Bring the part you’d most like to be living sooner, and a recent example of how your weeks actually run. Session 1 and Lab 2 help you and the room understand both; at Session 3 you see where the space can come from, and at Lab 4 you choose the move to test.
Then the five weeks go into making the move well rather than clearing the way for it. You check that space against your actual calendar at Session 3, and the fourteen-day test keeps the risk small while you see how the move works in practice.
Then that’s evidence too. You read it at Activation, twice: did I do what we agreed, and does the evidence support keeping it. A partial result or an unsuccessful test can point you to a smaller change, a different approach, or what you need to understand next.
Yes. You draft it alone in the quiet week, in your own words, and finish it with James in the private session. James writes no version of it.
Realignment is five weeks on your first move, in a small group. Authorship by Design is sixteen weeks of private work designing the whole next chapter, by application. If you’re unsure, book a 30-Minute Fit Call and James will tell you plainly which fits, including if neither does yet.
By email, within 72 hours of purchase. If Session 1 takes place sooner, the window closes then. The refund is the amount paid less the card-processing fee, about three percent, which the payment processor does not return to us. After that the engagement is non-refundable, and the Show-Up Guarantee is the commitment instead. If fewer than three men are seated when enrollment closes, you choose the next cohort or a full refund, with no fee deducted. Full terms are in the Refund Policy.
What you share in the room and in your private session is treated with professional care and kept confidential, within the limits set out in the Terms. The men in the room agree to the same before Session 1.
No. This is coaching, in a small group and one to one, to help you evaluate and make a change in your life. It is not clinical care.