Half Past Almost — Book One

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Finally, I faced it. I spread every piece of paper across my kitchen island. Every bill. Every reminder. Every avoided thing. And I did what I do best: I made it look handled.

I made new stacks, covered them with sticky notes, stuffed the labeled groups into colored folders, and moved the folders around every couple of days. Made the whole operation look very official.

I hadn’t dealt with one damn thing.

But shit, those piles looked fantastic. Five stars.

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Book One of Seven.

By Allison Jacob.

"Almost" feels normal because you keep renewing the lease.

The friend group that leaves you drained—and you call it loyalty.

The job you dread—and you call it stability.

The patterns you keep repeating—and you call them bad luck.

Your life has been leaving evidence. Find it.

If you're looking for self-help, wrong aisle.

Help Your Fucking Self.

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A forensic audit of my choices, my patterns, and the systems I built to keep the bullshit alive

The evidence is mine. The recognition might be yours.

Life is a system.

Systems work.

Even when we detest what they produce.

40 years of making it all look handled.

Then I wrote down what actually happened. Including my parts in it.

From high-stakes blackjack tables, to a cardiac floor wake-up call, to facing the piles of avoided decisions I dragged from one year to the next—this is my survival manual back to myself.

No inspirational suggestions. No morning routines. 

I have zero interest in telling you how to live.

I just kept the receipts from when I finally stopped explaining myself.

Now they're yours.

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You are the problem. Which means you are also the way out.

Stop calling chaos home.

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WHAT YOU GET:

• 134-page digital edition with instant PDF download.

• Original Anatomical Color Artwork by Coulter Dotson opening every chapter.

• Behavioral Research Citations grounding the cognitive effort of avoidance.