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Kendall learns, by way of a huge banner over the beloved health club, that it is closing after the summer. She reflects on the chaos that artificial intelligence is wreaking in her own career, and the club closing is an additional unstable situation.
3 May 2026
Chapter 1 - The Final Season
Kendall Jordan lands at the tiny airport outside the small town where she grew up. She was home to help her parents downsize and move. While she was extremely successful by all standards, things were starting to shift - and it was pointing to a landslide.
1 May 2026
Artificially Intelligent - Crisis to Capability Book Overview
Capability Today Magazine and CenterPointe Creative present a forthcoming narrative nonfiction about 3 old friends reuniting in their small hometown of Mapleton, and becoming involved in a crusade to save the beloved community Health Club from shuttering. They have to use artificial intelligence to figure out how to start a community cooperative, and learn how to manage - and harness - the power of AI to propel their own careers in the process.
1 Jan 2026
Your Ownership Plan: A Blueprint for the Year Ahead
Welcome to Day 7 of Franklin Week — the final day of our seven‑day journey of reflection, clarity, and ownership as we prepare for a new year. Over the past week, you’ve done deep, meaningful work:
Day 1: You stepped into the ownership mindset
Day 2: You identified your values — your compass
Day 3: You created a long‑term vision — your horizon
Day 4: You set your annual goals — your direction
Day 5: You built systems and habits — your engine
Day 6: You identified and began removing barriers — your clearing of the path
Today, we bring it all together.
This is the day you create your Ownership Plan — a simple, powerful blueprint that will guide your year.
31 Dec 2025
Removing Barriers: What’s Really Standing Between You and Your Future
You can have the best goals, the clearest vision, and the strongest habits — but if you don’t address the barriers in your way, you’ll stay stuck.
Barriers are the often invisible forces that:
drain your energy
steal your time
undermine your confidence
distract your focus
keep you repeating old patterns
Most people try to push harder. They try to “be more disciplined.” They try to “want it more.” But the truth is simple:
You don’t need more willpower.
You need fewer barriers.
31 Dec 2025
Systems Over Willpower: Building Habits That Guarantee Success
Welcome back to Franklin Week — our seven‑day journey of reflection, clarity, and ownership as we prepare for a new year.
Today, we talk about the engine that makes all of it work: systems and habits.
Because goals give you clarity, but systems create results.
29 Dec 2025
Turning Vision Into Strategy: The Power of Annual Goals
Welcome back to Franklin Week — our seven‑day journey of reflection, clarity, and ownership as we prepare for a new year.
On Day 1, we talked about the ownership mindset.
On Day 2, we identified your values — your compass.
On Day 3, you created a long‑term vision — your horizon.
Today, we build the bridge between where you are and where you’re going.
This is the day we turn vision into strategy.
This is the day we talk about annual goals.
28 Dec 2025
The Long View: Designing a Future You Actually Want
Welcome back to Franklin Week — our seven‑day journey of reflection, clarity, and ownership as we prepare for a new year.
On Day 1, we talked about the ownership mindset — the belief that your future is something you can shape.
On Day 2, we identified your values — the compass that guides your decisions.
Today, we zoom out.
We’re stepping into long‑term thinking — the kind of thinking that gives your life direction, purpose, and momentum.
This is the day we design the future you actually want.
27 Dec 2025
Values First: The Compass That Makes Every Goal Easier
Welcome back to Franklin Week — our seven‑day ritual of reflection, clarity, and ownership as we prepare for a new year. Yesterday, we talked about the ownership mindset — the belief that your future is something you can shape, not something that happens to you.
Today, we take the next step.
Before you can set meaningful goals, before you can design habits or systems, you need a compass. You need to know what matters most.
And that’s what today is all about: your values.
26 Dec 2025
The Ownership Mindset: Why Your Future Is Yours to Shape - Franklin Week Day 1
Welcome to Day 1 of Franklin Week — the seven‑day ritual on the last week of the year when pause, reflect, and take ownership of the year ahead. This week is named after Benjamin Franklin, who famously used the final days of each year to review his habits, refine his goals, and recommit to the virtues that shaped his life. Franklin believed that intentionality was a skill — something you practiced, not something you waited for.
Today, we begin with the foundation of everything: the ownership mindset.
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