Most self-help is too long, too vague, and assumes you have unlimited evenings. Most programs are 60 days, 90 days, twelve weeks. Most buyers abandon them by day 12.

RESTART NOW is built around a different question: what's the shortest evidence-based path from stuck to moving? The answer turns out to be one to four weeks of structured daily action, calibrated to take five to fifteen minutes a day, ending in a measurable result you can point to.

We call the spine The REWIRE Method. It's the engine inside every workbook. The topic changes — Sleep, Money, Burnout, the Same Fight, the Layoff — but the spine doesn't.

REWIRE — six steps.

R — Recognize the actual problem. Most people are stuck on a poorly defined problem. Day 1 of every workbook turns "I have a money problem" into "I haven't opened my bank app in eleven days and I have three subscriptions auto-charging that I don't use." The shift from abstract to specific is itself therapeutic — it reduces overwhelm and creates a target. Built on cognitive-behavioral analysis (Beck) and motivational-interviewing research (Miller & Rollnick).

E — Extract the wish, the win, the block, the move. Day 2 is the most important page in every workbook. We call it The Reality Check — a four-step protocol that walks you through what you want, the realistic best version of getting it, the specific internal obstacle in your way, and a written if-then plan for the exact moment that obstacle shows up. It's built on Gabriele Oettingen's 25+ years of research at NYU and Hamburg on mental contrasting, and Peter Gollwitzer's 94-study meta-analysis on implementation intentions. It's the most robustly supported goal-pursuit method in the academic literature, packaged as a single page.

W — Write the if-then plan. Day 3. Wishes don't change behavior. Specific situational plans do. You write three to five "if X happens, then I will do Y" statements that pre-decide the behavior in advance, removing willpower from the equation at the moment of action. "If it's 9 PM and I want a third glass of wine, then I will drink water and start my pre-bed routine." "If a recruiter messages me on LinkedIn, then I will reply within 24 hours with the prepared template on page 12."

I — Implement in micro-doses. Days 4 through near-end. The middle of every workbook is a sequence of small, daily, prescribed actions — each calibrated to take under 15 minutes, directly relevant to the goal, and measurable. Pages are intentionally short. You should be done with each daily page in five to fifteen minutes. Built on BJ Fogg's behavior design research (Stanford), Lally et al.'s habit-formation work, and the minimum-effective-dose principle from clinical psychology.

R — Review the data. Built-in checkpoints — typically days 7, 14, and 21 — where you stop, review your log, identify what worked, identify what didn't, and adjust. Self-monitoring is itself a behavior-change mechanism: the act of tracking changes the thing tracked. Reviews include explicit branches — "if you missed more than three daily actions, do this; if you completed all of them, do this." The workbook self-corrects rather than failing silently.

E — Entrench the change. The final one to three days of every workbook focus on making the change durable past the workbook itself. You anticipate the situations that will threaten the new behavior, pre-decide your response, and write a one-sentence identity statement that you sign. Identity-based change is more durable than outcome-based change because it survives motivational dips. Built on the Marlatt & Gordon clinical relapse-prevention model and self-perception theory (Bem).

Why short workbooks.

A 90-day program would let us go deeper on each step. We trade depth for completion: a 7-day workbook you finish beats a 90-day program you abandon by day 12. The literature on brief interventions — single-session psychology, motivational interviewing, structured short-form CBT — is increasingly clear that short, structured interventions can produce meaningful behavior change. Lally et al.'s 66-day median to habit automaticity is real, but they also found measurable change inside the first week. We start there.

What this means for you.

Every RESTART NOW workbook follows the same six-step spine. The topic changes; the spine doesn't. That means:

You'll never wonder what comes next. The first day diagnoses; the second extracts; the third plans; the middle implements; the back end reviews and locks in. The architecture is consistent across every workbook in the catalog.

You'll always end with proof. Every workbook is built backwards from one observable result — a written counter-offer in your sent folder, a sleep window held for ten of fourteen nights, $200 a month redirected with the cancellation receipts to show, a script delivered, a contract signed, a thing shipped.

You'll finish. The pages are short — five to fifteen minutes a day. The miss-a-day rule is "don't restart, just continue." The total active time inside any workbook is under five hours, spread across the days. Most buyers finish their first one within the promised window.

That's the method. The promise is the same on every cover: by the end of N days, you will have done one specific thing, measured by one specific piece of evidence. Then we move on.