Get PAID
A Decision-Making Framework for Student Accountability & Life Readiness
Students are not failing because they lack intelligence, talent, or access to information. They are failing because they haven’t been given a structured decision-making system, one that teaches accountability, self-direction, and how daily choices shape long-term outcomes. The world has changed. Our systems for preparing young people have not. Get PAID™ (Pay Attention – Identify Daily) exists to fill that gap.
Why the Get PAID™ System Is Necessary Now
We are raising students in a world of constant input, rapid change, and unlimited distractions, yet we expect them to self-regulate without ever being taught how. Get PAID responds to the realities of the 21st century by teaching the core anchors missing from traditional education:
The Book
To present the Get PAID™ mindset and language, guiding young people to ask the right questions, make mindful choices, and act with intention.
The Workbook
To turn ideas into actions by guiding students through structured exercises that build character, discipline, and career clarity.
The Journal
To reduce digital distractions, slow down rapid thinking to build clarity and intentionality through handwritten reflection.
The Manual
To train teachers, parents, and mentors to deliver the Get PAID™ System with consistency, confidence, and creativity.
One Framework. One Language. Shared Accountability.
The Get PAID™ System provides a shared language for teachers, parents, and mentors so adults can guide young people without controlling them but allowing them to think through the process. Through the student book, workbook, journal, and educator/parent manual, everyone involved is working from the same framework, reinforcing the same principles, and pointing students in the same direction. This alignment turns guidance into empowerment and confusion into clarity.
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ABOUT the creator
Louwendy
Founder of Get PAID™ | Youth Development Strategist
Louwendy Jenkins is the creator of Get PAID™ (Pay Attention – Identify Daily), an identity-based life-skills system designed to help young people stop drifting and start designing their lives. With over 30 years of experience working directly with youth, parents, and educators, Louwendy has built frameworks that teach self-governance, accountability, and intentional decision-making.
Beginning in 1989, Louwendy founded Nothing To Do (NTD), a nonprofit after-school organization that evolved into a multi-program serving elementary through high school students. NTD became known for combining structure, creativity, performance, and leadership, empowering students to take ownership of their choices and express their identities with confidence.
Through decades of work across Generation X, Y, and Z, Louwendy refined a practical methodology that replaces motivation with direction. Get PAID equips educators and parents with a shared language and teachable system focused on time, energy, identity, and daily action skills rarely taught, yet essential for life readiness.
Louwendy positions life as a design process, not a default path, teaching young people to hold the brush, move with intention, and build futures they can stand behind.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What is the Get PAIDTM System?
Get PAIDTM (Pay Attention – Identify Daily) is a structured decision-training system designed to help young people (ages 15–25) stop drifting and start designing their lives. It teaches identity awareness, critical thinking, discipline, and daily accountability not motivation or inspiration, but direction.
Who is the Get PAIDTM System for?
The system is designed for:
• Teachers (high school & college)
• Parents
• Mentors, coaches, and youth leaders
• Organizations working with young adults
Students who benefit most are those navigating identity, direction, career paths, and personal responsibility.
What makes Get PAIDTM different from other life-skills or mindset programs?
Get PAIDTM is not motivational speaking or character talks.
It is a decision-training framework that:
• Introduces a shared language adults and youth can use together
• Trains students to notice inputs, evaluate choices, and decide daily
• Builds self-governing humans, not dependent learners
What does “Teaching the Teachers” mean?
“Teaching the Teachers” means educators, parents, and mentors are trained first, so they can confidently teach the system to students.
Instead of being passive attendees, participants:
• Experience the system themselves
• Teach each other during the training
• Leave prepared to duplicate the framework in their own environments
What is the Get PAID Painters’ Lab?
The Get PAID Painters’ Lab is an immersive weekend boot-camp experience where participants:
• Learn the full Get PAIDTM System
• Break into collaborative groups of five
• Teach, reflect, and co-create together
• Leave with clarity, confidence, and tools to implement immediately
It is limited to 35 participants to maintain depth, dialogue, and hands-on learning.
Why is it called a “Painters’ Lab”?
The system uses art and creation as a metaphor for life:
• Students are artists
• Their lives are the canvas
• Decisions are brushstrokes
• Identity sets the palette
Participants are not lectured to, they create, reflect, and build together.
What materials are included in the Get PAIDTM System?
The complete system includes:
• Student Book: 7 Chapters, 7 Lessons, 7 Deliverables
• Student Workbook: Developing Character & Developing Careers
• Personal Journal: Clarifying thoughts through written words
• Teacher/Parent/Mentor Manual: Full instructions for teaching and implementation
Everything is designed to work together as a single system.
Where did Get PAIDTM System originate?
The Get PAIDTM System evolved over 30+ years and was redesigned for each generation:
• Generation X: My Life – My Choice
• Generation Y: There Is an Art to Living
• Generation Z: YOU (Your Own Universe)
• 2024 and Beyond: Get PAIDTM (Pay Attention - Identify Daily )
The principles are timeless.
Can parents teach this system at home, and is it ongoing?
Absolutely. Parents are encouraged to learn the system themselves, use the shared language at home, and teach it to their own teens, and even their teens’ friends. The Painters’ Lab serves as the entry point, while the Get PAID™ System is designed for ongoing use through repeated cycles and long-term integration in classrooms, homes, and mentoring programs. Together, it strengthens communication between adults and youth over time.
Will this help my teen with responsibility and discipline?
Yes, by teaching ownership, not obedience.
Teens learn:
• How their choices affect outcomes
• How to pause before reacting
• How to take responsibility without shame
Do I need to be a teacher or expert to lead this?
No.
Parents are provided with:
• Clear guidance
• Language prompts
• Structured materials
You are not teaching content, you are facilitating decision practice.
How do I get started?
To begin:
1. Register for the Get PAID Painters’ Lab
2. Experience the system personally
3. Learn to teach it confidently
4. Bring it back to your students or community
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