the series

Six books.
One real you.

Six short, fast, actually-fun books that take you from "making your own luck" all the way to "meaning it." Each one stands alone. Read in order, they build the whole thing: one real you, un-edited.

📚 6 books🎯 Ages 13–18✅ All 5 CASEL skills🧵 One connected story
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how the series moves

It opens with agency.
It ends with conviction.

Read them in order and each book sets up the next: you start by learning you have agency, and finish with the conviction to keep it for good.

1 · Agency
2 · Agency
3 · UnEdited
4 · UnEdited
5 · Reinvent
6 · Conviction
the arc, act by act

Three acts. Six books.
One real you.

Each act is a pair of books that complete each other, and the acts build in order: make things happen, then do it as yourself, then keep doing both for the long haul.

Act One, Agency. Books 1 and 2: Lucky Isn't Random and Different on Purpose.
Act One: make things happen.
Act Two, UnEdited. Books 3 and 4: You Not a Copy and Stop Suppressing Start Unleashing.
Act Two: do it as yourself.
Act Three, Reinvention and Conviction. Books 5 and 6: Glow Up For Real and Mean It.
Act Three: keep becoming, on purpose.
Book 1 of 6Lucky Isn't Random cover
Book 1

Lucky Isn't Random

Your guide to making your own breaks.
Adapted from Glenn Llopis's Earning Serendipity

The kid who gets all the breaks isn't lucky. They're trained. This is the training: four moves that turn luck from a lottery into something you build on purpose.

the four moves
  • See · See Wider
  • Sow · Start Small, Start Now
  • Grow · Grow What's Working
  • Share · Share the Win
Ages 13–18Responsible decision-makingSelf-managementRelationship skills
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Book 2

Different on Purpose

Six ways to think differently before everyone else.
Adapted from Glenn Llopis's The Innovation Mentality

You had the weird answer and almost didn't say it. This is why that answer is your biggest asset. Six moves to think original instead of becoming a copy, plus the four questions of who you actually are.

the six moves
  • There's Something in Everything
  • See the Plot Twist Coming
  • Chase What You Actually Care About
  • If It Doesn't Exist, Build It
  • Give First
  • Build Stuff That Outlasts You
Ages 13–18Responsible decision-makingSocial awarenessSelf-awareness
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Book 3

You, Not a Copy

Five shifts that help you become more you.
Adapted from Glenn Llopis's Leadership in the Age of Personalization

The template never announces itself. It just says "this is normal." Five shifts to see the mold while it's happening, so you become more you, not less.

the five shifts
  • From Being There to Being Heard
  • From Cliques to Crossovers
  • From Their Mold to Your Shape
  • From the Poster to Your Part
  • From the Grade to the How
Ages 13–18Social awarenessSelf-awarenessResponsible decision-making
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Book 4

Stop Suppressing, Start Unleashing

Five questions to test whether a space is unleashing you, or shrinking you.
Adapted from Glenn Llopis's Unleashing Individuality

Some rooms unleash you. Some quietly shrink you. Five questions to tell the difference, and reclaim the version of you that never made it into the post.

the five questions
  • Am I actually in?
  • Do they see me, or a label?
  • Can I be myself here?
  • Do I get to do anything real?
  • Do I get to do it my way?
Ages 13–18Self-awarenessSocial awarenessRelationship skills
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Book 5

Glow Up. For Real.

Reinvent yourself before the world tells you who to become.

Before the world tells you who to be, become it yourself. Reinvention as a skill you run on purpose, not a one-time makeover, but six skills you keep choosing.

the six skills
  • Follow the Interesting Thing
  • Stay a Beginner, On Purpose
  • Want It Out Loud
  • Don't Glow Up Alone
  • Change in Front of People
  • Go First
Ages 13–18Self-awarenessSelf-managementRelationship skills
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Book 6

Mean It.

Knowing isn't enough. Mean it.
Adapted from Glenn Llopis's Earning Conviction

Knowing what's right isn't the same as meaning it. Confidence isn't a feeling you wait for. It's a record you build, one kept promise at a time. The book the whole series was quietly building toward.

the five practices
  • Drop the Act
  • Stop Waiting to Be Picked
  • Make Yourself Unnecessary
  • Leave Something Behind
  • Prove It Every Day
Ages 13–18Self-awarenessSelf-managementResponsible decision-making
the thing you carry through all six

One living companion.

Every book feeds one companion you keep the whole way through, two halves of a single artifact that turns six reads into proof you can point to.

The Record

A running log that starts in Book 1 as your "Luck Log" and grows through all six: openings you noticed, rules you questioned, un-edited moments, hard things you did. By Book 6 it's revealed for what it always was: the proof your conviction is built on.

The Signature

A periodic self-portrait built on four questions: how you think, what sets you apart, what you're counted on for, what you solve. You re-take it as you go, and watch the real you come into focus.

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