Your Whackadoodle Lighthouse
Welcome to the Whackadoodle Lighthouse — your jumping-off point for exploring the Fourteen Guideposts, essential tools for navigating a world that doesn’t always make sense. Whether you’re just discovering this series or ready to dive deeper into specific practices, each link below leads to a carefully curated collection of articles, stories, and exercises organized by Guidepost. Feel free to start anywhere—but don’t be surprised if you find yourself circling back. After all, this isn’t a straight road—it’s a winding river.
Navigating a Whackadoodle World: A Prologue
Begin your journey here. This prologue sets the stage for the entire series, introducing the Fourteen Guideposts as practical tools for making sense of life’s chaos. Through honest storytelling and fresh perspectives, it invites you to rethink how you see the world—and your place in it—before diving into each Guidepost’s deeper lessons.
Mastering Cause and Effect
A curated collection of articles, stories, and exercises to deepen your understanding of Guidepost One: The Power of Cause and Effect. This isn’t just abstract theory—it’s the key to seeing how everything in your life connects and why things keep happening the way they do. When you start paying attention to causes instead of just reacting to effects, you gain real power to change your story. Dive in if you’re ready to stop spinning your wheels and start making meaningful shifts—one insight at a time.
Mastering Definition and Belief
A curated collection of articles, stories, and exercises to deepen your understanding of Guidepost Two: The Power of Definition and Belief. This guidepost explores how the words you use—and the beliefs you hold—quietly shape your reality. It’s not just semantics; it’s the architecture of how you think, feel, and respond. When you learn to spot the definitions running your life, you can begin to shift them—and with them, your experience of the world. Dive in if you’re ready to challenge old labels, rewrite stale narratives, and claim the authority to define yourself on your own terms.
Mastering Reflection
A curated collection of insights, conversations, and playful exercises to explore Guidepost Three: The Power of Reflection. If Guidepost One helps you see the roots of your outcomes, and Guidepost Two helps you name your beliefs, then Guidepost Three gives you the lens to decode the beliefs of others. When you start listening with curiosity instead of defense, something shifts. You stop reacting to surface noise and begin hearing the inner world people live in. Want to understand why someone said that? Or why you felt this? This is the Guidepost that cracks the code. Come try it for yourself—and maybe even learn a game or two to make the practice stick.
Mastering Focus and Attention
A curated collection of insights, conversations, and playful exercises to explore Guidepost Four: The Power of Focus and Attention. If Guidepost One helps you see the roots of your outcomes, and Guidepost Two helps you name your beliefs, and Guidepost Three helps you decode others, then Guidepost Four gives you the steering wheel. Focus doesn’t just shape your productivity—it drives your mood, your reactions, your entire inner state. Learn how to spot it, train it, and use it to shift your whole day. Bonus: games, experiments, and maybe even a mongoose.
Mastering Strategy
A curated collection of insights, conversations, and playful exercises to explore Guidepost Five: The Power of Strategy. If Guidepost One helps you see cause and effect, and Guidepost Three teaches you to master your beliefs, then Guidepost Five introduces the trio you’ll need to succeed: the Explorer, the Navigator, and the Workhorse. The Power of Strategy is about balancing curiosity with clear planning and steady execution. Without the Navigator charting the course, the Explorer’s ideas stay scattered, and without the Workhorse’s grit, even the best plans never leave the ground. Learn how to harness these three voices so your vision turns into purposeful, effective action. Because a goal without a plan—and the work to back it up—is just a wish.
Mastering Vacuum
A curated collection of insights, conversations, and playful exercises to explore Guidepost Six: The Power of Vacuum. If Guidepost One shows you cause and effect, and Guidepost Five helps you plan your next move, then Guidepost Six reveals the invisible force pulling you forward—or yanking you off course. The Power of Vacuum is all about understanding how empty space demands to be filled. Clear your calendar, your closet, or your mental clutter, and watch what rushes in. Warning: nature abhors a vacuum, and so does your to-do list. Learn how to wield this force instead of getting sucked in.
Mastering Process and Growth
A curated collection of insights, conversations, and playful exercises to explore Guidepost Seven: The Power of Process and Growth. If Guidepost One helps you recognize cause and effect, and Guidepost Four reminds you that belief shapes perception, then Guidepost Seven shows you what actually happens between intention and outcome. The Power of Process and Growth is all about respecting the steps, even the boring ones. Skip a stage, rush the recipe, or try to fake the work—and the results will reflect it. Progress isn’t always linear, but growth is always happening. The question is: are you growing on purpose, or by accident?