• Self-Management

• Professionalism

• Financial Literacy

• Parenting

• Life Admin

Those who aren’t parents to children often become parents to themselves, guiding their own growth through the process of intentional maturity. And sometimes, life even gives us the opportunity to re-parent our parents; offering them the tools, perspectives, and opportunities they never had to grow up with intention.

Self-Management

Self-management is the ability to regulate your emotions, thoughts, and behaviors in a way that helps you achieve goals and navigate challenges. Skills like problem-solving, resisting stress, communicating clearly, managing time, strengthening memory, and exercising regularly are all prime examples of self-management in action.

Who you are right now is a product of your upbringing, your idols, your mentors, your environment, and the life experiences that have shaped you. But if you’ve never questioned the person you’ve become, then you’re not truly the creator of yourself.

Our defaults run deep. The settings within us were programmed by the people who raised us, the environments we grew up in, and the experiences we survived. Until those defaults are acknowledged, questioned, challenged, and either accepted, refined, or removed, we remain products of the past… not creations of a conscious self.

“Through others we become ourselves.” – Lev S. Vygotsky

We only truly meet ourselves in relation to others. In a world of interactions, challenges, and outside forces, the hidden self within us is constantly being triggered to act, adapt, or retreat.

When we focus on the Self Management Area of Adulting, we step into the role of observer. We watch ourselves. And this is perhaps the most difficult area of adulting to confront, because it demands both honesty and courage:

• Acceptance of where we are right now

• Clarity of where we want to go

• Consistency in walking the path

• A willingness to break down and remold the inner self

And through that process, we must also accept the very real possibility of being misunderstood, rejected, or disregarded by the people and environments we once mirrored.

Self-management is the path of becoming self-built. If you are ready to meet yourself where you are, to discover, and then to create the person you both admire and desire; this is where the work begins.

Professionalism

Our professional lives are one of the clearest areas where time and experience align. When we put in 5, 10, or 25 years in a field, we can confidently claim that experience. But experience alone doesn’t always mean growth, especially if work consumes us at the expense of balance, fulfillment, or personal development.

With the 12 Year Old Adult Method, we assess where you are in your professional journey and design a micro-improvement plan to move you toward where you want to be. For some, this means advancing in their career. For others, it means reclaiming balance after years of being consumed by work.

In mentorship, we’ll evaluate:

• Your current professional status and goals

• Resumes, performance reviews, and career milestones

• Compensation packages and negotiation strategies

• Interpersonal dynamics with co-workers and employees

• Work-life balance and long-term vision
  

As Antoine de Saint-Exupéry reminds us:

“Let your dream devour your life, not your life devour your dream.”

And as Maya Mendoza warns:

“No amount of security is worth the suffering of a mediocre life chained to a routine that has killed your dreams.”

Professionalism isn’t just about surviving the workforce — it’s about thriving in it while still living a whole, balanced life.The Baby Adult

The Baby Adult begins taking responsibility for their Areas of Adulting. This is the “training stage” of becoming the General Manager of their own life. They draw on what they’ve learned from the first two stages, but now experience adulting firsthand. They fail more than they succeed, but with each attempt they gain wisdom. Once they succeed more often than they fail, they move forward. Guidance and mentorship are still key at this stage.

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FinanciaL literacy

If you’re not watching your money, it will walk away from you. If you don’t know where it’s going, you’re unconsciously giving the world permission to decide for you.

Every dollar you earn, save, or spend is data. It tells the story of who you are, what you value, and how you navigate your reality. The question is: are you reading that story, or are you ignoring it?

Whether you have a little or a lot, your spending reveals patterns; the version of you that’s quietly running the show.

• Are you consciously in control of your money, directing it with intention?
  
  

• Or are you constantly wondering where it went, scrambling for more, as it trickles away without your awareness?
  
  

Money shapes how we spend our time, our energy, and ultimately, our lives. To master it is not simply about numbers… it’s about self-awareness and reclaiming control of the narrative you’re writing with every transaction.

As Socrates warned:

“Beware the bareness of a busy life.”

Financial literacy isn’t just about wealth. It’s about alignment, ensuring your money supports the life you’re intentionally creating, not the one you unconsciously drift into.

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Parenting

Parenting is not just about raising children — it’s about raising ourselves. Before we ever guide another life, we carry the imprint of how we were parented. That script runs silently in the background, influencing how we show up in every area of life.

Re-parenting is the process of revisiting that script. It’s about examining the parenting you received, deciding what to keep, what to heal, and what to release. This work isn’t only for those who had a difficult childhood — it’s for anyone ready to step out of survival patterns that may have served the past but no longer serve the present.

When you re-parent yourself, you:

• Heal from outdated coping mechanisms.

• Gain clarity on who you are versus who you were shaped to be.

• Choose consciously the kind of parent, partner, and person you want to become.
  

If you’re a parent, this work directly informs how you guide your children. If you’re not, it deepens how you understand yourself and the people who raised you. By tracing back why your parents parented the way they did — their wounds, their limits, their inherited patterns — you uncover not just their humanity, but also your own.

As Alain de Botton reminds us:

“People only get really interesting when they start to rattle the bars of their cages.”

Inside each of us lives a “Pavlovian Person,” conditioned by the past. The question is: will you let those old cues define you, or will you re-parent yourself into the person you truly want to become?

Life Admin 

“A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance.” – Hunter S. Thompson

Life Admin is the unglamorous side of adulthood: renewing licenses, filing paperwork, paying bills, scheduling appointments, keeping systems in order. The key to getting better at it is simple: just do it.

Age alone doesn’t grant mastery of these tasks. You don’t learn by default; you learn by repetition. Until you’ve done them consistently, they won’t feel natural.

“The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.” – Baltasar Gracián

The truth is: micro-messes create macro-collapses. When you ignore the small, boring tasks, they pile up and turn into major setbacks at the worst possible time.

The good news? Life Admin is one of the easiest areas of adulting to master. All it takes is a system, accountability, and consistency.

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Wild Card 

The Wild Card is any area of adulting that doesn’t neatly fit into the main categories of this mentorship. Everyone has that one unique challenge or focus point; the thing that doesn’t quite have a box, but still needs attention.

This is your chance to bring it forward. Whatever it is, we’ll tackle it together.

“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.” – E. E. Cummings

Sometimes, all you really need is one person who’s unbiased, who listens, and who helps guide you in alignment with your core values. That’s what this space is for.

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