9-Week Mindfulness Training
How to Live a Grateful Life in a Fckd Up World
Finally train your mind to be calm, clear, and fully present — without forcing yourself to “think positive,” quitting your job, or spending a decade on a meditation cushion.
Next Cohort Launches
July 1st, 2026
12:00–1:00 PM PT on Zoom
Is This You?
This training was built for you if —
You're constantly worried about the next disaster — the economy, the election, the environment, your health, your kids, your career. The anxiety hum never quite shuts off.
You know you're capable of more, but stress is eating your edge. You're working hard but not producing the results you know you're capable of — and the harder you push, the less effective you feel.
You think about work when you're at home, and your family when you're at work. You're never quite fully where you are — which means you're never fully effective anywhere.
You're never quite successful enough to be satisfied. There's always another milestone, another goal, another thing that needs to happen before you can relax.
You're missing out on actually living your life because you're too busy managing it.
You've maybe tried meditation before and it “didn't work.” You like the idea, you think it's good for other people, but for some reason it never stuck with you.
If you see yourself in any of these, you're in the right place.
Maybe you've read all the books, downloaded all the apps, and still wake up at 3am worried, wired, and just so fucking tired you wanna cry.
You're not broken. You're not doing it wrong. Your brain is just doing what it's been trained to do: survive.
But you can retrain it to thrive. And it's way simpler than anyone's told you.
Imagine if you could…
Stay calm, clear, and decisive even when the world around you is on fire
Perform at your best without burning out, white-knuckling, or running on fumes
Be more effective and productive with less effort, struggle, or stress
Make better decisions faster because your mind isn't hijacked by worry
Why this program exists
Just because the world is fucked up doesn't mean you need to be.
There is a version of living where you don't have to get more, achieve enough, or even fix yourself before you can love your life.
The Method
The CTFO Method
(chill the fuck out)
After training over 10,000 people over the last 30+ years I've found that most people's suffering runs through the same three hidden programs. Until you can see them, you can't interrupt them.
The Worry Trap
Your mind is a machine that generates thoughts. Most of them are worried predictions about the future or regrets about the past. You can't stop the machine but you can stop believing every thought it produces. This is the first skill we train: the ability to notice what your mind is doing and redirect your attention to what actually happening right now. That's not just peace of mind, it's the foundation of high performance.
The Resistance Tax
Most of our suffering comes not from what's happening, but from our argument with what's happening. In almost all cases, awareness, allowance, and/or acceptance are missing. These aren't passive. They're the most powerful tools you have. When you stop fighting reality, you free up an enormous amount of energy to actually respond to it effectively, to make better decisions, take clearer action, and produce real results.
The Happiness Hustle
Here's the lie we've all been sold: “If I just get enough (enough money, enough success, enough security) then I'll have nothing to worry about, and that's when I will finally be happy.” But life doesn't work like that. Gratitude isn't what you feel only when everything goes right. It's an experience you can train for, and when you do, you stop leaking energy on worry and start channeling it into the work and the life that actually matter to you.
Meet Your Instructor
Aaron Hendon
I was born in 1963, raised in New York, and wired, genetically and culturally, for worry. Things are never so bad they can't get worse. Be grateful for what you have, but not too grateful, because kids are starving somewhere and what kind of selfish person are you? That was the water I swam in.
For 30 years I built businesses, led programs that reached over 10,000 people, and was, by most measures, successful. Six figures in real estate. A great marriage. Two kids that love each other and still speak to me. And yet, underneath all of it, the Jaws music never stopped.
In 2023, at a retreat in Napa with my wife, I had the kind of clarity that changes everything. I was sitting in paradise, genuinely happy, genuinely blessed, and I was worried. In that moment I saw the game: get enough so I never have to worry again. I looked at that game and I knew, in my bones: that game cannot be won.
So I found a new game. Instead of eliminating everything that could go wrong, what if I could choose where I put my attention? What if I could co-exist with uncertainty and still focus on what's good, right now?
I got trained as a mindfulness meditation instructor, and then something happened that I still find remarkable: I stopped worrying. Not forever, not magically. But the constant background hum of oh fuck, when does the shitstorm start? went quiet.
I've taught this to real estate teams, executives, and ordinary people living in genuinely hard circumstances. What they find isn't just peace, more than just presence, and it goes beyond simply selling more, and improving their performance (although it includes all that).
It's something better: the capacity to hold the hard parts of life (and life really does have hard parts) and the beauty (because life is also beautiful) at the same time, without faking anything.
That's what this program is. And that's why it works.
The Program
Your road map to a grateful life
Nine weeks. Three phases. Each one builds on the last. By the end, you'll have a daily practice that takes 10–20 minutes and changes everything.
Weeks 1–3
Preparing for the Journey
Building Awareness & Presence
You'll learn the basics of breath awareness, body scanning, and how to sit still without losing your mind. We start with the basics: breathing, sitting, and smiling. This is where you build the muscle of noticing what your mind is doing, without judging it.
Weeks 4–6
Learning to Drive
Integrating Mindfulness into Daily Life
Now we take what you've practiced on the cushion and bring it into your actual life — your commute, your meetings, your conversations, your moments of frustration, and your moments of joy. It's deepening the practice of mindfulness in your real life.
Weeks 7–9
Getting on the Road
Sustaining Gratitude & Long-Term Growth
This is where it all comes together. Cascading gratitude, the attitude of appreciation, and building a sustainable practice that doesn't require a retreat center or a perfect morning. You'll leave with tools you'll use — not shove in a drawer.
What's Included
The tools to perform at your best
A proven system for reducing stress, sharpening focus, and producing better results — while actually enjoying the process.
You'll notice there are no dollar values next to each item below. That's intentional. We're not going to tell you this is a “$2,000 program yours for $97” — because we'd be making up those numbers like everyone else does, and you'd know it. What's here is what's here. Decide for yourself what it's worth.
Simple Steps
It's not useful if you're not going to do it. One weekly call, one 10–20 minute daily meditation, and one chapter per week. No heroics required.
Live Weekly Training
Meet weekly on Zoom with a cohort of people just like you — professional, committed, and ready. We review the previous week and create the next week. Each week there is a new meditation to practice on your own so we will meditate together and there is ample time for students to get their questions answered.
Audio Guides
All practices and guided meditations available on a free app. Do them anywhere — your car, your couch, your lunch break.
One-on-One Support
Lost, confused, or just want extra guidance? It's always a phone call away. You're never on your own in this.
180+ Page Practical Workbook
This is a tool you'll actually use — not shove in a file or a drawer. Exercises, reflections, and practices that reinforce everything you learn each week.
Investment
Pay What It's Worth to You
This course is offered on a sliding scale. Nothing is expected and nobody will be turned away for lack of funds. Participants are encouraged to look for themselves and determine the amount they feel comfortable giving and which would cause no regret.
Register NowNo Catch. No Upsells. Here's Why.
Why would anyone give this away?
There's no catch. No upsell waiting on the other side. No premium tier. No certification program I'm going to pitch you in week 7.
The Dana model is the practice — it's the lived expression of non-attachment and trust in community.
I know in the world you live in, the world where you wake up worried, where everything looks dangerous, where trust has been rewarded with getting screwed, this seems too good to be true.
And that is very much the point.
That's why this cannot be charged for in the way you're used to — if you're going to live a grateful life in this fucked up world you're going to need to let go of the notion that everybody wants something from you and start accepting the generosity the universe is offering.
As the instructor, I couldn't teach you to do that unless I was willing to do it, and this is what that looks like.
“The best things in life aren't things, and they're not for sale.”
What Others Say
What people have said about this training
80%
reduction in worry reported by participants
70%
increase in gratitude after completing the program
Fair Warning
This is NOT for you if —
You believe your anxiety is what makes you successful — that if you stopped worrying, you'd stop performing. (This program will challenge that belief directly. If you're not ready for that, it's not the right time.)
You're not going to do the practices. A map is not for reading. If you're not going to do it, don't sign up.
You want to stay stuck in the story that you don't have 10 minutes a day to change your life. The work isn't a lot — 10, maybe 20 minutes a day. But that's still more than you're doing now.
You're okay living a life where you're too busy to train your mind, to live gratefully, powerfully, and effectively, even when life gets messy. You get to keep any limitation you argue for, so it's really your call.
This isn't a course about meditation. It's not about mindfulness. It's not about the benefits of those things, or about what anyone else might have gotten out of them. It's not about why they work or the science behind them (although that is included).
It's about you. It's about your life. It's a how-to. A step-by-step roadmap. A simple, clear “do this, get that” guide to move you from worried and stressed to free and grounded.
Questions
FAQ
Great — you're in the right place. This program is designed to fit into your life, not add to the chaos. The time commitment is one hour of live training per week and 10–20 minutes of daily practice. That's it.
Nine live calls on Wednesdays from 12:00–1:00 PM PT. You're asked to make at least six — and they're all recorded if you miss one (or want to rewatch). Plus 10–20 minutes of daily practice between sessions.
The apps are great and useful. If you're getting the results you're looking for with the apps, please keep using them. This is for people who want more personal guidance — especially people getting started or starting again. It's hard to overemphasize the difference a teacher makes, not to mention the difference a community of like-minded people makes. Being able to ask questions, to have your experience explored with a guide — these are some of the reasons this is potentially more useful than going solo on an app.
Mindfulness teachings are traditionally offered for dana, gifts of generosity, because the teachings are considered priceless and not something a teacher can “sell.” Removing fixed fees protects the teacher-student relationship from becoming transactional. Dana itself is part of the training: cultivating generosity, non-attachment, and awareness of interdependence while keeping the teachings accessible to everyone. By relying on voluntary giving rather than pricing, the economic model becomes a lived expression of the very insights the practice aims to reveal: impermanence, non-self, and trust in community.
You probably just didn't have the right teacher or structure around you to work through the inevitable obstacles everyone encounters. This program gives you both. That said, about 8–10% of people have health conditions that make meditation not a great fit. If that's a concern, talk to your healthcare provider.
We focus on the scientifically verified aspects of mindfulness that impact performance. To whatever degree Buddhist philosophy enters the conversation, it's about practical, real-life application — not religion. For the vast majority of people, this won't conflict with any existing practice.
100% refund or pay-for-performance model. If you're not satisfied, you don't pay. Simple as that.
The Next Step
You don't have to keep living like this.
If you've read this far, you already know something has to change.
You wouldn't still be here if part of you didn't believe it could.
That part is right.
The next cohort starts July 1st. Nine weeks. One hour a week. A practice that takes less time than you spend scrolling — and actually works.
Sliding scale pricing · 100% satisfaction guarantee · No experience needed