The books
Where the method came from.
One is a memoir-style guide from a man who got it wrong for forty years. The other is a novel about a kid who looks fine and isn't. Together they're the source of everything taught here.
A novel
Nobody's Watching
Chet is fifteen, funny, and an expert at looking fine. His grandfather Ray, a retired builder who wore the same "I'm good" face for forty years, is the one person it doesn't fool. Over one summer rebuilding an old truck, Ray teaches him finding the gap, naming, the three coats, the square of ground, and the two-question review, and three generations of the same inherited hardness finally bend.
For law enforcement families: it's a story about a hard man learning to take the coat off, and about a kid who needs a parent to notice. Many officers will recognize both.
The guide
The Accountable Life
Daniel's own account of building success in one area of life while the others quietly fell apart, and the game plan he built afterward: identity, forgiveness, life by design, six fronts, an offense plan, a defense plan, and teammates who hold you to it. It's written from a Christian faith perspective; the agency programs drawn from it are secular.