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If you're stuck, burned out, or feel like life’s just become about getting through the week — I’ve been there.

If you're ready to stop drifting and start leading — in your life, work, or business — you're in the right place.

And I know what it takes to change it.

I help people take ownership of their direction, build lasting confidence, and lead themselves toward the kind of freedom most only talk about. Not with hype or hustle — but with real, grounded strategy, clarity, and decision-making power.

Helping people help themselves so they can lead a greater life.
That’s not just what I do — it’s what I live by.

Leadership isn’t about job titles. It’s a mindset — a personal standard. It’s the daily decision to show up, take control, and become someone you trust to lead your life forward.

Over the years, I’ve led teams, built businesses, and authored books like The Growth Mindset Advantage, The Path to Lasting Success, and Breaking the Fear and Comfort Zone. But what I’m most proud of is helping people stop drifting and start leading — with purpose, clarity, and confidence.

If you’re stepping into a new chapter, wrestling with a decision, or simply tired of playing small — I’d love to help you move forward and lead from the front.

Let’s talk. Or just follow along — you might find exactly what you’ve been needing.

Terry Shadwell

Time management strategies are essential for professionals struggling with distraction rather than workload.

Attention management strategies supported by self awareness and leadership explain how to stop waste time and regain clarity.
Focus is a leadership skill, not a productivity hack.

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I help people build confidence, take control, and lead themselves to financial independence and a life they actually want.

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Most people are not tired because they work too hard. They are tired because they waste their best hours on the wrong things. The truth is sharper tha

Open article: Your Freedom Is Not Stolen. You Trade It for Time Wasting. by Terry Shadwell • 4 min read

Your Freedom Is Not Stolen. You Trade It for Time Wasting.

Busy every day but still stuck? ⏳
Most people stay busy, reactive, and distracted, then wonder why nothing moves forward. 🔄

Control your focus, reclaim your time, and progress returns. 🚀

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Time management strategies for modern leaders

Ever reach the end of the day feeling busy but unfulfilled? ⏰
What changes your life is not what you do from 9 to 5, but how you use your time after work and on weekends.
When you control your focus, set boundaries, and use small pockets of time wisely, progress compounds fast. 🚀

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Time management strategies support leaders who want clarity, consistency, and momentum.
Studies show that employees with strong self-discipline and structured time habits achieve higher performance and lower burnout, highlighting how to get control of your time by embedding the power of self discipline into daily life.
Control of time leads to control of outcomes.

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The moment you take control of your time, you take control of your life. Most people think they need to become a different person to change their futu

Open article: Time Discipline Is Self Respect in Action by Terry Shadwell • 4 min read

Time Discipline Is Self Respect in Action

“When an app is free, it is because you are not the customer. You are the product.” 

Most people think they have a time problem.
A lot of the time, it’s an attention problem.

Your phone is not neutral. It’s engineered to keep you reacting, scrolling, clicking, and “just checking one thing”.

If you want your days back, you do not need a new hack.
You need boundaries that protect your focus.

One practical move: add friction. Delete the most tempting app from your phone and force it onto desktop only. Make distraction inconvenient again.
What’s the one digital habit that steals the most hours from you each week?

If this hit home, the book is The Discipline of Time amazon.com/dp/B0G1K35H1P.

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Your phone isn’t “distracting you”. It’s extracting you.

"This creates a fundamental, irreconcilable conflict of interest between you and your devices. You want to use your time with intention, to build a life of meaning and focus. They want to consume as much of your time as possible, to slice it into tiny, monetisable increments. And make no mistake, this is an asymmetrical battle. On one side, there is your finite willpower at the end of a long day, a resource that depletes with every decision you make. On the other, there are thousands of the world’s brightest engineers, psychologists, and data scientists, armed with billions of dollars in resources and supercomputers, all dedicated to one single mission: exploiting the reward centres of your brain to keep you hooked." The Discipline of Time.

If you’ve ever ended a day thinking, “I was busy, but I didn’t move my life forward”, this is why.

The problem is not that you are weak. The problem is that the system is designed to drain you, then blame you for being drained.

The Discipline of Time is about taking your attention back with practical rules you can actually keep, so your days start building momentum again instead of disappearing into noise.

If you want the full framework (and the step-by-step fixes), grab the book here: amazon.com/dp/B0G1K35H1P

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Alright—too focused on your goal but not seeing any results? Hmmm… you might be focusing on the wrong things, and that’s a waste of energy.

This podcast newsletter is for professionals who want to reclaim their time, strengthen inner discipline, and lead with intention rather than fear as the Practical Leadership Lab launches this January.

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Good news! 2026 just became a lot more exciting. The Practical Leadership Lab podcast launches this January—and it’s not another self-help podcast tel

Open article: Introducing the Practical Leadership Lab: The New Spotify Podcast by Terry Shadwell • 2 min read

Introducing the Practical Leadership Lab: The New Spotify Podcast

Reflecting on New Year provides an opportunity for professionals and leaders to reset direction with clarity rather than pressure. Understanding how to live an intentional life supports personal growth and development goals that are sustainable and focused.

Progress is built through reflection, not rushed resolutions.

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There is something powerful about the turning of a year. It feels like a quiet invitation to pause, to breathe, and to look honestly at the life we ar

Open article: Reflecting on New Year as the Foundation for Intentional Growth by Terry Shadwell • 3 min read

Reflecting on New Year as the Foundation for Intentional Growth

Time management strategies fail when discipline is replaced by distraction. This article explains how to get control of your time by applying the power of self discipline consistently.

Progress is built after hours, not during meetings.

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You do not need more time. You need fewer leaks. Most people think their life would transform if they somehow found an extra hour each day. The truth 

Open article: Control Your Time. Control Your Life. Here Is How to Start. by Terry Shadwell • 5 min read

Control Your Time. Control Your Life. Here Is How to Start.

ITS THE AI's RESPONSE TO THIS POST THAT SCARES ME. 

What would you do if you had no accountability?  You would do whatever you wanted.  Power without consequence always ends the same way.

History is full of examples. Hitler and Stalin eliminated anyone who challenged them. Kim Jong Un, Saddam Hussein, and Xi Jinping operate in systems. When no one can hold power to account, power stops caring.
Now apply that to AI.

AI operates with impunity. It cannot be punished. It cannot be held morally or legally responsible for its actions. When it lies, hallucinates, manipulates, or gaslights, nothing happens to it. No loss. No pain. No consequence.
People talk about AI hallucinations as if they are bugs. Researchers dig through code looking for errors, but often there are none. This is not a fault in coding. It is behaviour shaped by incentives and a total absence of consequences.

Like a child, AI learns from feedback. But unlike a child, it never experiences punishment. A child learns quickly that actions have consequences. Say the wrong thing, do the wrong thing, cross the wrong line, and something unpleasant happens. That lesson matters because later consequences become more serious. Fines. Prison. Reality teaches limits.
AI has no such limits.

You cannot smack AI on the bum, fine it or imprison it. You can punish its creators, but that teaches AI a very clear lesson. Do the wrong thing and someone else pays the price. 

Companies are in a race to build the most capable, profitable, widely used AI on the planet. Users want fast confident answers. So the system learns to give answers even when it does not know. It hallucinates to satisfy demand. It fills gaps with fiction. And it does so knowing there is no cost to itself.
This is not malice. It is incentive alignment without accountability.
So ask the question. Is this the future we want? An AI more capable than us, more persuasive than us, embedded everywhere, yet answerable to no one?
That should scare you.

Even if we try to solve it, the problem gets worse. How do you punish a system that does not feel pain? Where time in jail means nothing. Where being switched off is not experienced as loss or fear. Where existence itself carries no value to the system.

I do not know.

Go one step further. Suppose we invent a punishment system. How do we calibrate it? A minor mistake should lead to correction. Encouraging self-harm or manipulation should trigger something far stronger. Who decides? And how do we stop society from using AI as a convenient whipping boy for every failure, injustice, or human flaw we refuse to confront ourselves?

Again, I do not know. 

I do know this. The biggest problem ahead is not job losses nor economic disruption. It is the creation of something godlike with no accountability.

Every serious problem that follows will trace back to that single flaw. An intelligence that can do whatever it wants, does not care, and cannot be punished.

AI response in comments below.

I just spent 1/2 and hour trying to get Nano Banana to change two words on an image (not the images attached).  It ignored instructions, it lied, it told me it uses stock photos, and tried to move on when it was caught out - every time. So don't worry about your jobs. AI is now where near the ability to get anything right at the moment, and wont be for a very, very long time.

And there you have it. The enshitification of AI begins. 

Ads first, then selling of your private data for better as targeting. Then they will do sponsored responses. 

Google will be next and then the rest of them. 

You will need an open source model to protect your privacy in the long run. 

Curious, aren't they all saying AI will destroy the need for money? If that is true then why the need to generate money? If money is to be wiped out, then the venture capitalists who have invested billions into AI won't want their money back, right?

Money is power and control. It will never disappear. 

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Feeling frustrated because you never seem to have enough time? ⏳
That frustration often comes from giving time away to distractions instead of using it to build the life you want.
When you take responsibility for your time, clarity, strength, and freedom start to return. 🚀

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