Flying Without Instruments: The ADHD Brain's Guide to AI, Self Knowledge, and Building Something Worth Keeping

Flying Without Instruments: The ADHD Brain's Guide to AI, Self Knowledge, and Building Something Worth Keeping

For forty years, Rance Johnson built a career, led teams through dozens of acquisitions, and managed complexity that would have broken most people—without knowing why his brain worked the way it did. Then came the diagnosis: ADHD. At sixty-two. What followed wasn't a breakdown. It was clarity. In this honest and practical book, Johnson shows how artificial intelligence can become something far more powerful than a productivity tool—a trusted thinking partner calibrated to how you actually think. Not to fix you. To finally work with the brain you've always had. This isn't about efficiency. It's about survival. And building something worth keeping. Inside you'll discover: * Why ADHD isn't a focus problem—and what that means for how you plan, prioritize, and recover from overwhelm * How to turn AI into a Kemosabe—a steady, pattern-spotting thinking partner that fits the way your brain works * Practical rituals like the 5am Debrief, the minimum viable day, and brain-dump-to-blueprint planning * The Shadow patterns—Avoider, Pleaser, Restless, Hyper-Achiever—and how they show up in your work and relationships * Honest stories about marriage, parenting, leadership, and the people who carried the load while you were still flying blind If you're a late-diagnosed professional, a partner who loves one, or anyone trying to build something meaningful with the brain you actually have—this book will help. You're not flying blind anymore. It's time to build your instruments. 📖 Available on Amazon: https://amzn.to/4vXZcxS [https://amzn.to/4vXZcxS]

Symphony Of Self: Compose Your Life

SYMPHONY OF SELF: COMPOSE YOUR LIFE Experiential self-help through sound, rhythm, and frequency. "Symphony of Self succeeds because it shifts the goal from perfection to authorship." — Printed Word Reviews What if the anxiety, overwhelm, and uncertainty you feel aren't signs that something is wrong — but signals that your life is asking for a new composition? In Symphony of Self, composer, conductor, and transformational teacher Ann M. Mracek reveals a truth that changes everything: your life functions like music. When your internal rhythm, patterns, and nervous system fall out of sync, everything feels off. But when you learn to conduct your inner world, you can transform chaos into clarity, survival into intention, and noise into meaning. A new category of transformational literature. After each of the 15 chapters, a QR code unlocks a 10-minute guided meditation set to original music — composed by the author specifically for that chapter, calibrated to the frequencies and rhythms that correspond to its teachings. You don't just read about emotional harmony. You feel it. You internalize it. You live it in real time. Ann wrote the music. Ann composed the meditations. Ann wrote the book. This is one unified, immersive experience — and it exists nowhere else. Blending neuroscience, the architecture of music, and deeply-human storytelling, Symphony of Self gives you a new framework for understanding yourself and a practical, felt path to reshape your future. You will discover how to: * Recognize unconscious survival patterns and step out of them * Use rhythm, repetition, and awareness to rewrite your responses * Create emotional harmony during times of transition and uncertainty * Move from surviving your life to conducting it with intention This is not about fixing yourself. It's about learning how to conduct yourself. "An essential read for anyone ready to stop reacting to the loudest impulse and start conducting a life of coherence." — Printed Word Reviews Your life is already a symphony. It's time to take the podium. 📖 Available on Amazon:

The Eleventh Messiah

In a world broken by war, the most dangerous question is not whether God exists—but who gets to speak for Him. In the ruins of a war-torn America, everyone is searching for meaning—and some are willing to kill for it. Journalist Sarah B. Wells has spent years chasing stories through the wreckage of civilization, determined to expose the false prophets and self-proclaimed saviors rising from the ashes. But when she hears rumors of a quiet man called Elijah—the so-called “Eleventh Messiah”—she is shaken. Elijah is no stranger. He is someone from her past, someone she once loved like family, and someone she believed was long gone. Unlike the fire-breathing preacher Caleb Rios, whose sermons ignite fear, loyalty, and violence, Elijah does not seek followers. He does not promise salvation. He barely speaks at all. Yet those who meet him claim his presence changes them, quieting their rage, grief, and despair in ways no one can explain. As Sarah joins Elijah and his unlikely companions on a dangerous journey west, she begins recording their stories—and questioning everything she thought she knew about faith, consciousness, war, truth, and the human need to believe. Bold, darkly funny, philosophical, and deeply human, The Eleventh Messiah is a post-apocalyptic literary novel about violence and grace, belief and manipulation, and the fragile hope that survives when the world has burned itself almost beyond recognition. 📖 Available on Amazon: https://amzn.to/4g2GPDA [https://amzn.to/4g2GPDA]

The Kikiloa Chronicles: A Literary Science Fiction Novel of Time Travel, Magical Realism and an Irrepressible Mitochondrial Eve

As a time surfer flickering across a trillion universes, Kiki is determined to discover an antidote to entropy before everything meaningful is lost. And now she’s a freckled fourteen-year-old trickster bounding across a San Francisco park to meet her kind and grounded friend Hazel, who Kiki believes can cause even death to pass people by. Probably. When a cliff collapses beneath them and Kiki vanishes mid-fall, Hazel is left alone with their attacker to begin her contemporary coming-of-age, while Kiki’s hopes unravel back to the trauma of her bleak beginnings as outcast and slave in a dystopian prehistoric world. But Kiki never lets up, whether lamenting a Hawaiian tsunami, alchemizing sniper attacks, telling quantum stories, weaving through highway pileups, going Jungian, or baking perfectly average cookies. And throughout, she spars with her infuriating, enigmatic mentor Paha, who believes surfing is elegy: all waves break, and fighting the end only creates suffering. The Kikiloa Chronicles is Erik D. Larson’s emotionally vast, funny, and wild speculative literary debut, carried by Kiki’s unmistakable voice from the devastating loneliness of her first life to the hard wisdom of friendship. Irrepressible and imperfect, she wrestles with love, a force like gravity, alive at the core of a universe destined for darkness. Circe meets The Midnight Library by way of Ursula K. Le Guin. 📖 Available on Amazon: https://amzn.to/4gBVo0W [https://amzn.to/4gBVo0W]

Three Days In Hell

Helman is a town where God no longer listens. Disgraced and desperate after an affair with his boss's wife, Bobby Santos is exiled to Helman to hock Bibles for a crooked ministry that trades in faith the way others trade in contraband. The job is simple: unload the books or lose everything. But Helman is a dying desert town where sin is the only thriving industry, and salvation has no buyers. Helman belongs to JB and Amelia-beautiful, ruthless, and untouchable. Together they run every legal business and every criminal pipeline flowing through town, including a brutal cartel corridor trafficking drugs and underage girls north across the border. With nowhere else to go, Bobby embeds himself in Helman's corruption, guided by a small-time thief named Bins who teaches him how the town really survives. Bobby soon finds himself in trouble. Trapped by blackmail, watched by killers, and unable to flee, Bobby is offered one last gamble during Helman's infamous Chili Festival - a single night of excess that floods the town with outsiders and chaos. Bobby's chance of escape closes when both spouses come to him separately with the same unthinkable proposal. Murder the other. On a rooftop beneath a burning sky, with a gun and two bullets in his hands, Bobby must choose which devil survives, and whether his own soul is already beyond saving. 📖 Available on Amazon: https://amzn.to/4ey9z4w [https://amzn.to/4ey9z4w]