For people who want to help mentor and change the lives of today’s youth.
The 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.
This system is the evolution of curriculum originally taught in 1989 and refined through Generation X (My Life – My Choice), Generation Y (There Is an Art to Living), Generation Z (YOU – Your Own Universe), and now redesigned for the current and future generation navigating AI, overstimulation, and choice overload.
Get PAID teaches students to:
* Pay Attention to what they consume, who they listen to, and what influences their thinking
* Identify options, tradeoffs, and consequences before reacting
* Decide Daily with ownership, structure, and accountability
The program does not tell students what to think or who to be. Instead, it trains them how to think, how to slow down decision-making, and how to act with intention. It creates self-governing humans rather than dependent followers.
Supported by a teacher/parent manual, book, workbook, and journal, Get PAID equips teens and young adults with a common language to guide youth without rescuing them, allowing young people to build discipline, clarity, and confidence through consistent daily practices.
This is not inspiration.
This is direction.
This is decision training.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
Yes, by teaching ownership, not obedience.
Teens learn:
• How their choices affect outcomes
• How to pause before reacting
• How to take responsibility without shame
No.
Parents are provided with:
• Clear guidance
• Language prompts
• Structured materials
You are not teaching content, you are facilitating decision practice.
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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