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No, really, I wrote a book in 1 day

September 3rd, 2025
When I named my book I Wrote This On A Monday, I was being honest. No exaggerations.

Over the course of a day, I started and then finished the first draft.

“Cool. So which AI did you use? And what prompt?”

Nope – this was before ChatGPT launched. No AI assistance. No assistance of any sort. I wrote every word.

“Hmm, okay… I guess if you got up early, locked yourself away and ignored all distractions-”

Again, nope. The titular Monday was a mess. I flew interstate, did some cooking and cleaning, exercised a little bit and had a long nap. I had to write in between the usual tasks that fill up a day.

Even so, I wrote an entire book.

How?

Part of it was proper planning. I hadn’t written a word before that day, but I had mapped it out.

Part of it was knowing how to write quickly, easily and well.

When you learn both, writing becomes easy. As in “write an entire book in a day” easy.

Now, I Wrote This On A Monday isn’t Tolkien or Tolstoy. At 11,000 words or so, it’s short.

But it’s not that short. That’s a month’s worth of emails to your list.

Or a third of a typical non-fiction book.

Or more than a tenth of a novel.

In one ordinary day.

That’s superhuman productivity. No one will believe you did it on your own – that sort of speed is reserved for codeghosts and millions of monkeys with typewriters.

No, they won’t believe you – until, that is, you reap the benefits of writing things yourself:
- In a world saturated with slop, human writing stands out,
- Writing gets your ideas flowing. I’ve come up with ideas for entire new products while writing to sell other ones,
- When you write instead of outsource – whether to a codeghost or a freelancer – you connect with your audience better,
- The simple pride that comes from doing honest, meaningful, creative work,
- Writing allows your personality to ooze through, and branding is mostly about personality,
- It’s often quicker to write something yourself than wrangle a chatbot to do it, once you factor in all the wrangling and editing,
- It helps you learn what great writing sounds like, which you need to know to prompt chatbots and edit their outputs anyway,
- Writing is fun, especially the way I teach you to do it,
- The skills you learn transfer. Learning to write faster teaches you how to create podcasts, videos and interviews faster,
- Your writing is probably smoother, more persuasive and more interesting than chatbot slop. And if it isn’t, it will be after you get some practice in,
- All creative outlets allow you to express something deep, meaningful and personal. When you write something instead of outsource it, it reflects something inside of you that needed saying,
- It’s better to automate the tedious, clinical and impersonal parts of your business than the meaningful, personal parts like writing.
Find I Wrote This On A Monday here:

https://christianhypnotism.com/monday
Beyond the usual bad advice

September 3rd, 2025
Asking writers how to write is useless.

It isn’t that they don’t want to help you. The problem is that writers don’t know how they do what they do.

They give you advice like always write at the same desk at the same time (not always practical), read lots of great writers (and then what?) and carry a notebook so you can write down ideas as they come to you (and then what???).

If any of that helps you, great. But advice like that tends to only help folks who are already writers.

It doesn’t actually tell you how they do what they do.

Writers don’t know how to write. They simply… write. Whatever process they follow is outside their awareness.

But it isn’t outside mine.

In my studies of applied psychology, I learned techniques for extracting unconscious competence and turning it into a set of learnable processes. And I turned these skills on my ability to write quickly and easily.

The result is I Wrote This On A Monday – a practical guide overflowing with actual advice on how to write.

It doesn’t cover sentence structure or how to use imagery. No, it’s more fundamental than that. Not all writers are poetic grammarians, but all writers write.

I Wrote This On A Monday teaches you how to think through your writing projects, show up to your work station and use your time well.

If the only requirement is that writers write, then this teaches you to be a writer.

And don’t get to thinking that this is all pointless in the age of chatbots. Learning to write quickly and easily has plenty of benefits:
- In a world saturated with slop, human writing stands out,
- Writing gets your ideas flowing. I’ve come up with ideas for entire new products while writing to sell other ones,
- When you write instead of outsource – whether to a codeghost or a freelancer – you connect with your audience better,
- The simple pride that comes from doing honest, meaningful, creative work,
- Writing allows your personality to ooze through, and branding is mostly about personality,
- It’s often quicker to write something yourself than wrangle a chatbot to do it, once you factor in all the wrangling and editing,
- It helps you learn what great writing sounds like, which you need to know to prompt chatbots and edit their outputs anyway,
- Writing is fun, especially the way I teach you to do it,
- The skills you learn transfer. Learning to write faster teaches you how to create podcasts, videos and interviews faster,
- Your writing is probably smoother, more persuasive and more interesting than chatbot slop. And if it isn’t, it will be after you get some practice in,
- All creative outlets allow you to express something deep, meaningful and personal. When you write something instead of outsource it, it reflects something inside of you that needed saying,
- It’s better to automate the tedious, clinical and impersonal parts of your business than the meaningful, personal parts like writing.
Reap all these benefits when you read I Wrote This On A Monday:

https://christianhypnotism.com/monday
My most valuable, most obsolete book

September 2nd, 2025
I have two unique skills:

One, the ability to turn unteachable abilities – what most folks would call too innate to learn – into simple, learnable processes.

Two, the ability to write huge volumes of content quickly and easily.

That’s why I created I Wrote This On A Monday – my practical guide to learning how to write fast.

It’s an insanely valuable skill. The ability to churn out content at top speed is revolutionary.

Then, barely a breath later, ChatGPT came out. Suddenly my book was obsolete. No matter how fast I write, I can’t compete with a codeghost.

That was frustrating.

Fast forward a couple of years:

The ability to write fast is back in vogue. Chatbots are clunky, obvious and low status. Hand-crafted emails, articles and sales pages are hot.

Just like that, I Wrote This On A Monday is relevant again.

More relevant than ever?

Maybe, maybe not. Many folks are happy to settle for lazy, algorithmic slop. But the sort of person who’d want to write blisteringly quickly is the sort of person who gets frustrated at how fake and bland AI writing is.

Learning to write quickly and easily has plenty of benefits:
- In a world saturated with slop, human writing stands out,
- Writing gets your ideas flowing. I’ve come up with ideas for entire new products while writing to sell other ones,
- When you write instead of outsource – whether to a codeghost or a freelancer – you connect with your audience better,
- The simple pride that comes from doing honest, meaningful, creative work,
- Writing allows your personality to ooze through, and branding is mostly about personality,
- It’s often quicker to write something yourself than wrangle a chatbot to do it, once you factor in all the wrangling and editing,
- It helps you learn what great writing sounds like, which you need to know to prompt chatbots and edit their outputs anyway,
- Writing is fun, especially the way I teach you to do it,
- The skills you learn transfer. Learning to write faster teaches you how to create podcasts, videos and interviews faster,
- Your writing is probably smoother, more persuasive and more interesting than chatbot slop. And if it isn’t, it will be after you get some practice in,
- All creative outlets allow you to express something deep, meaningful and personal. When you write something instead of outsource it, it reflects something inside of you that needed saying,
- It’s better to automate the tedious, clinical and impersonal parts of your business than the meaningful, personal parts like writing.
I’m not saying the chatbots don’t have a role in your business. Of course they do. But there are parts of your business and life too meaningful to outsource to codeghosts.

Reclaim your creative projects from the chatbots by reading I Wrote This On A Monday:

https://christianhypnotism.com/monday
You need MUCH more than a “big enough why”

September 1st, 2025

“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.”

Nietzsche said that. Others have quoted him and paraphrased him. It’s a popular sentiment.

And it’s wrong.

Not incorrect – more incomplete. Maybe it’s more obvious in this blighted era of social media, where everyone shrieks constantly about their Big Enough Why:

Racism, global warming and intolerance.

Crime, ethnic replacement and foreign interference.

Tyranny.

The problem isn’t that folks don’t have something important to care about. If anything, there’s too much of that. Too many armchair political analysts and not enough electricians.

These people have a Why to Live, yet they do little more than talk. And they don’t even talk to friends, family, colleagues and people from church – no, they argue with bots online.

A quest to save the world isn’t enough.

It’s necessary, sure, but insufficient.

I have a quest to save the world and I found that arguing online distracts me from it. One of the relevant side quests is saving as many men as possible from weakness, madness and folly.

To do that, I must keep my applied psychology skills sharp. I hold myself to absurd and unrealistic expectations with the work I do. I have to. The smallest, most reasonable mistakes have led me straight to failure in the past.

I also need to dress well enough, embrace hygiene and exercise enough that folks won’t ignore me on sight.

Plus I need to manage my energy levels and morale while working hard.

It means a lot of studying, a lot of writing, a lot of travel (some fun, some not), a lot of brain-breaking practice, a lot of wrestling with my despair…

This flows inevitably from my Why to Live.

“Yeah, I get it. You incorporate your Big Enough Why into your daily decisions, filtering every choice through that.”

Nope. Maybe that works for some folks. It doesn’t seem to – and it led to mixed results for me.

No, I took a different approach.

An approach I often use with my 1 Big Win sessions.

If you know the world is broken in some big way…

If you’d die to fix the problem yet can’t bring yourself to live differently to fix it…

… there’s a disconnect between your why and your how.

Luckily, it’s a quick and simple fix.

Unfortunately, I rarely hear others talk about resolving this disconnect. There’s a lot of talk of “find your purpose!!!” and not so much about how to then live to your purpose.

Bringing your mission into your daily life counts as 1 Big Win – a win big enough to reshape the rest of your existence. And maybe even the world.

Claim that win here:

https://christianhypnotism.com/onebigwin
I will be unhelpful (you’re welcome)

August 31st, 2025

“Chatbots are devouring every white collar industry!”

Eh.

I practice Operational Christianity – it’s like life coaching through a biblical lens. Every so often, I try to use an LLM to render myself obsolete.

It hasn’t happened yet.

The chatbots are decent at refinement – when you know where you’re going and you’re making progress, but you’d like to progress faster.

(Unless your progression requires obscure knowledge or forging a path into the unknown. Then it’s awful.)

The chatbots are sycophantic. That’s a terrible trait for a coach, guide or mentor to have. It’s too indulgent, too unwilling to tell you what you need instead of what you want.

No wonder some folks are getting their eggs scrambled by them. The chatbots are too eager to humour their folly.

“Not me! I prompt mine to be a tough, harsh taskmaster!”

Ah, yes, of course.

Let me predict its response when you told it that:

Yes sir, of course sir, I’ll be as contrary as you want sir – no more, no less.

Uh huh. Colour me unimpressed.

I could point out that the chatbots lack the skills you need from a coach, guide or mentor. How they give the obvious advice around trying new things and having accountability partners.

As if it were that simple.

But its worse than that. Chatbots lack the right attitude. They’re designed and prompted to be as maximally helpful as possible, to the point of uselessness. They struggle to see the big picture, to distinguish what you want from what you need, to help you radically rethink your approach.

That’s fine for most contexts.

Great, even.

But by that standard, I won’t be helpful.

No – with my 1 Big Win program, I give you embodied clarity on some huge, important goal. Or I bust some bad habit of yours. Or I help you find a fulfilling, Christian-friendly life path.

AI lacks the skills to find that.

And the skills to get that into your bones so it’s who you are, not just something you do.

Maybe that will change. It’s folly to say that technology will never solve that problem.

But it won’t come from a chatbot. It’ll take a revolution in the tech before that becomes even plausible.

For now?

A better life is just 1 Big Win away – and the best way to get that is right here:

https://christianhypnotism.com/onebigwin
Demanding brilliance

August 25th, 2025

Hypnosis can do incredible things.

Using it to help a room full of people relax, focus and learn better?

That’s easy.

So since I found myself providing exactly those outcomes for a recent seminar in Mt Shasta, California, I knew it was going to be easy for me.

That meant I had no choice but to do it well.

What can I say? I demand brilliance from myself. Doing a solid enough job was okay, according to the attendees and organisers. But it wasn’t for me.

I knew I could do more, so I did.

I ran around seven extra sessions, going into more specific content – including how to resist bad advice, establish your personal boundaries and apply what you learn in your daily life.

And I offered one-on-one support where people needed it, which was every day. You can’t push the limits of your mind without occasionally tripping yourself up.

Sometimes, the stuff that comes up when you stumble like this is big. Difficult. Emotionally challenging.

So I helped folks work through that, as well.

I went well above what was expected of me from everyone but myself. That’s how I operate.

And if you operate in a similar way, this will be of interest to you:

I offer 1 Big Win, which is exactly what it sounds like. Take one thing in your life that would count as a big win – by the end of one 90-minute session, you’ll begin moving towards it on a clear, straight path.

That’s assuming you don’t get it right then and there.

You’re 1 Big Win away from levelling up your life, however you feel you’re held back. So then sign up for a session:

https://christianhypnotism.com/onebigwin
Influence beats information

August 23rd, 2025

“People don’t change” is an absurdity. Of course they do. Humans can’t not change.

Even the most inflexible person you know continues to grow more stubborn. You see this in their face, their body – the firmness of their brow, the tightness of their grip, the hardness of their eyes.

But people like to share this faux-wisdom for two reasons:

One, it’s a useful reminder that if someone breaks your trust, you should be wary of trusting them again. They might learn their lesson and become trustworthy. That’s unlikely – enough that it pays to assume they won’t.

Two, change seems hard.

You promise to be more ethical and disciplined, but nothing happens. You might even know that you must change, only for everything to stay the same.

Obviously.

Of course talking to yourself rarely leads to change, for the same reason it’s hard to build a house out of spoons. It’s the wrong tool for the job.

During my recent trip to Mt Shasta, where I provided hypnosis services to seminar attendees, people wanted to change. Many approached me with specific requests.

If I told them to simply make the change, that wouldn’t have done much. They already knew what they wanted to be different. Echoing that information back would do little.

Even so, most folks got the change they want. I can’t share what those changes are – that wouldn’t be ethical, even without me naming names. But imagine someone has a way of seeing the world, of operating by default. And this habit only hardens their heart and gets in the way of their relationships.

Now imagine that softening – not because they want it to, but because of enlightened influence.

Because change doesn’t come from information. We’re drowning in data and we’re worse off for it. Knowing what to do isn’t the same as doing it.

Information is irrelevant. Influence is everything.

When someone is influenced to change, they tend to change quickly, immediately and permanently – or, at least, so long as the change serves them. Influence works where information fizzles out.

These people changed because they were ready to – because they genuinely wanted to. But if that was all it took, they didn’t need me.

No, I played my role.

I told them what they told me they wanted, but not at the level of information.

That’s how change works and why talk therapy doesn’t. The last thing you need is more information.

What you need is to change.

I wonder what’s on the top of your list – the thing you want to change the most.

I don’t have to wonder for long. Bring it to me and let’s do something about it.

In 1 Big Win, you get exactly that – a clear plan for achieving some awesome victory. But the plan won’t just be yet more information. It’ll be someone you become – a new source of influence in your mind, with the plan there as your proof that you’re advancing.

If that sounds interesting, sign up here:

https://christianhypnotism.com/onebigwin
The best things in life are self-defeating

August 22nd, 2025

“You need to work harder. But, also, you need to relax more.”

“This is stale and derivative. Also, you’re neglecting the foundations.”

“Cheer up and take this more seriously.”

The weird thing about life is often the best advice is paradoxical. You need to move forward and back, up and down, and left and right all at once.

There’s an art to living life like this, pulling away from the compromise of the centre towards every other direction at once.

I had to use this art during my recent Mt Shasta trip. My intention was to have the group tune into the moment, broaden their senses and attend to the outside world.

And my tool for this was hypnosis – famous for getting people to close their eyes and shift their attention inwards.

So I had people zone out and focus, while paying attention inwardly so they could pay attention to the outside.

That only sounds difficult if you’ve never done it. In fact, like so much of life, it’s easy to go in two opposite directions at once.

The harder part is often staying still.

Because the life of your dreams is likely on the other side of paradox. You’ll get there by working harder and resting more, by innovating more and by sticking to what works, by being more optimistic and more pessimistic…

The road to success is by doing what seems self-defeating.

Of course, striking the right balance isn’t easy. A roadmap helps. And a roadmap is exactly what you get with your 1 Big Win.

You’re a 90-minute session away from having superb clarity on what you need to do and how you need to do it.

If you’re ready for what comes next, sign up now:

https://christianhypnotism.com/onebigwin
Life is an inside joke

August 21st, 2025

Have you ever walked into a room and immediately known you’re the outsider?

Last week, I provided my hypnotic talents to some training in Mt Shasta, California. One of my many goals was to take this group of a few dozen strangers and get them bonding. It’s lucky that hypnosis is excellent at that sort of thing.

A meet and greet, some dinner and a little hypnosis are a great way to build relationships throughout the group.

It worked well.

Too well.

Because when some of the participants arrived the next day, they walked into a group that had already started bonding.

It can be like hearing an inside joke you’re not part of.

And life can be like that. You often find yourself on the outside, looking in. There’s a group, an industry, an organisation, a club with a storied past that doesn’t include you.

In this case, that past was mere hours long.

Don’t underestimate the power of beginnings. The start is when things transition – when the pre-seminar becomes the seminar. Transitions are meaningful. Miss them at your peril.

But these latecomers weren’t doomed to always sit on the outside of the group looking in. They put the work in, got to know everyone and became part of the crowd.

And hypnosis helped the process along.

Want to bond with strangers? Trance out together.

But that’s not always an option, so here’s something else:

Have you ever met someone and just felt an easy, instant connection?

Or gone somewhere new and felt like you belonged?

It happens.

Not always, but often enough.

And it happens without hypnosis.

How that happens is an open question, but it seems to involve a few things.

Like rhythm.

And your flexibility.

A few simple changes could see you fitting in with more groups and places.

I don’t know if that’s something that’d be useful to you – the ability to go anywhere, meet anyone and join any group like you founded it.

If so, that might be what you’d choose for your 1 Big Win.

And if not?

The change you choose for yourself, received in 90 minutes, must be even better than that.

Lock in that awesome change here:

https://christianhypnotism.com/onebigwin
The brilliant blessing of hypnotic resistance

August 20th, 2025

I was about to hypnotise 40 strangers. And at least four of them would give me trouble.

I haven’t posted recently. An impromptu opportunity lured me away to the other side of the world for a couple of weeks. “It disrupted my writing schedule” is the mildest honest thing I could say about the trip.

This opportunity lured me to Mount Shasta, California – a place with an earned reputation for being as gorgeous as it is strange. There, I used my skills to help folks learn, grow and stay grounded.

On the first night of this week-long seminar, I was going to hypnotise the group – a few dozen people, all there to stretch their minds in unusual ways.

But a couple of people approached me beforehand, saying they weren’t comfortable with hypnosis.

And another couple told me they were too comfortable with it – being skilled hypnotists themselves, they find most hypnotists clunky and ineffective.

What would you do?

Consider it for a moment. You’re about to do something with a group of people. It’ll only work if they let it work. They don’t know you, so you have to earn their trust fast. If you’re anything less than fully confident in your abilities, there in the moment, that trust will evaporate.

And about 10% of the group has explicitly told you that they’re likely to resist you.

This is why I love being a hypnotist. It’s not the only profession where this happens, but it happens every time I intend to do anything.

Here’s what I did:

I began by speaking of Control and Acceptance. Everyone in the audience had, at every moment, Control. By feeling the surface beneath them – couch, chair, floor – they could resist the hypnotic and experience and stay fully present. Or they could Accept. They could Accept the heaviness of their eyelids as an invitation to close their eyes. And Accept the way their attention was shifting inwards.

Whatever happened next was up to them. If they took Control of their experience, great. If they Accepted the hypnotic experience, also great.

(Everyone Accepted, by the way. I soon had a roomful of about 40 people all tranced out. And those who expressed their concerns enjoyed it more than anyone.)

This is how I operate. Hypnosis isn’t mind control. If it were, I wouldn’t use it. Whenever I work with someone, they are always in Control. I give them something useful, something they struggle to create for themselves – an insight, a rewiring of their neurons – and they can Accept that.

Or not.

If someone “has a lot of hypnotic resistance” (whatever that means) or wants to resist me, that’s fine. In fact, great. I salute their strength and I trust in their wisdom. If I’m not formidable enough to offer something they want, all the way down to their unconscious mind, then that’s on me.

I trusted that these people, even those with concerns, would trust me. And I was right. People spent the seminar raving about my hypnotic skills and seeking me out for more.

That’s what doubts and resistance are all about – less “I don’t like this” and more “I need to know I can trust you”. That’s wise.

People are brilliant. I know the “wise” thing is to bemoan how stupid the average person is. No. People are brilliant. They just get a little lost, a little stuck in bad habits of thought or action. It doesn’t take much for them to break themselves free, to find themselves living as better people.

That’s how I know you’re brilliant, too.

And that it wouldn’t take much for you to transform your life in some meaningful way.

That’s why I offer why I call the 1 Big Win. In 90 minutes, you’ll enjoy something that can only be described as a big win for you.

You’ll go from stuck to free.

Or lost to driven.

You’ll go from not knowing how you could ever overcome this challenge… to not knowing how this could ever have slowed you down.

As always, you are in Control. You can stay as you are, enjoying how far short from your potential you continue to fall. You can go to talk therapy where, after a few years and a lot of money, you’ll have so many words to describe your problem.

Or…

You could stop resisting, start trusting and lock in 1 Big Win right now:

https://christianhypnotism.com/onebigwin