For people who want to help mentor and change the lives of today’s youth.

Get PAID (Pay Attention • Identify Daily) is a structured life-design and decision training system created to address a growing problem: young people are overwhelmed with information, distracted by constant input, and unclear about how to make decisions that align with who they want to become.
Get PAIDTM (Pay Attention – Identify Daily) is a structured decision-training system designed to help young people (ages 16–25) stop drifting and start designing their lives. It teaches identity awareness, critical thinking, discipline, and daily accountability not motivation or inspiration, but direction.
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.
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
“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
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.
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.
The complete system includes:
• Student Book: 7 Chapters, 7 Lessons, 7 Delivers
• Student Workbook: Building Character & Building 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.
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 – NOW (Nothing Overwhelming)
The principles are timeless.
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.
Accountability is built into the system through:
• Daily reflection
• Written exercises
• Choice-consequence awareness
• Self-governing practices, not external punishment
Students learn to hold themselves accountable.
Get PAIDTM addresses:
• Drifting without direction
• Poor decision-making
• Lack of identity clarity
• External dependency
• Overwhelm and disengagement
It replaces confusion with clarity, language, and structure.
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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