Dr. Jamie Richards

07/02/2026

I'm writing this from the Jersey Shore.

Yesterday — Canada Day.

In two days — July 4th.

Two countries. Three days apart. One word at the centre of both.

Freedom.

Standing here between the two, I keep thinking about the kind nobody actually celebrates.

The physical kind.

The kind that lets you say yes to your life without negotiating with your body first.

That one's built — not voted for.

06/17/2026

Almost every person who fails doesn't fail because they didn't do the work.

They fail because they expected the work to show up before the work was finished.

Here's what I see constantly, in the clinic and everywhere else:

Someone starts something hard. A few weeks in, they hit a wall — a plateau, a setback, a day where nothing feels different than day one.

And in that moment, they make a decision. Not consciously. But they decide the plan isn't working.

So they quit. Or they switch plans. Or they go looking for a faster one.

What they don't do is the one thing that would actually fix it — which is nothing. Just keep going.

Here's the part nobody tells you: the work and the proof of the work don't arrive together. The work happens first. The proof shows up later, often much later, on its own schedule — not yours.

If you're only willing to keep going while you can see it's working, you'll quit right before it starts working. Every time. That's not bad luck. That's just how the timeline actually runs.

Problems and setbacks aren't a sign the plan failed. They're the plan. They're expected. Fighting that doesn't get you there faster. It just delays the part where you accept it and keep moving.

The fix isn't a better plan. It's a longer runway, a way to track that you're actually moving, and the discipline to let time do what time does.

That's exactly why every Project You™ is built in 28-day cycles. One habit at a time. Long enough to get past the part where nothing seems to be happening — because that part is normal, not a sign of failure.

We're counting down the weeks to launch inside Life By Design Skool. This is the foundational piece everything else sits on.

Less than 4 weeks to go.

06/10/2026

One thing changed. Then everything moved.

The Life By Design Skool still isn’t live - but Skool still started promoting it and that’s a kick in my behind I needed.

Here’s the honest version of why.

The platform is built. The content is done. What was missing was a handful of final videos.

And I couldn’t get them recorded.

Not because I didn’t know what to say.

Because I kept waiting for the right moment.

Right space. Right setup. Right time in my schedule where everything felt calm enough to sit down and do it.

That moment never came.

So the videos sat. The launch waited. And every day I had a perfectly good reason why today wasn’t the day.

I’ve coached people through this exact pattern for 24 years.

I know what it is.

It’s not a time problem. It’s not a motivation problem.

It’s an architecture problem.

The environment I was working in couldn’t produce what I was trying to force out of it. I was pushing harder into a structure that wasn’t built for that kind of output.

That never works.

So I stopped pushing.

I redesigned my week. Changed the space. Changed what happened before I sat down to record.

Small moves. Nothing dramatic.

The videos got done.

But here’s the part that got my attention.

Once that one thing moved — the thing sitting in the middle of everything like a blocked drain — other things started moving too.

Things that had nothing to do with the videos. Decisions got easier. Other work started flowing.

One constraint released.

Everything behind it shifted.

I’ve watched this happen with people for years and it still surprises me when it happens to me.

We try to fix everything at once. Motivation. Discipline. Environment. Mindset. All of it, all at the same time.

It almost never works that way.

What works is finding the one thing that’s actually blocking the cascade.

Solve that.

Just that.

The rest moves on its own.

We’re close. It’s not just eat, move, think and power by design...

It’s full of solutions to designing your life and moving the needle on the things that matter most.

Thanks for staying with me.

05/11/2026

I want to tell you about a conversation I keep having.
It goes like this.

Someone comes in — or reaches out — and they’re frustrated. Not because they haven’t been trying.

They have. They’ve been trying for years.

They’re eating better than most people they know.

They’re moving. They’re reading the right things.

They’ve done the programs. Some of them have done my programs.

And yet something isn’t sticking. The results come and go. The motivation comes and goes. And underneath all of it there’s this quiet, exhausting question they don’t always say out loud:

What is wrong with me?

Nothing. That’s the answer. Nothing is wrong with them.

But here’s what I’ve learned after watching this pattern play out hundreds of times:

Hard work without architecture doesn’t fail occasionally. It fails every time. Eventually.

You can want it with everything you have. You can show up consistently for weeks or months. And if the structure underneath the effort isn’t built properly — if the habits aren’t installed in the right order, with the right foundation, with the right environment holding them in place — the results slip. Again.

It’s not a motivation problem. It was never a motivation problem.

It’s a design problem.

For the last several months I’ve been building something I’ve wanted to build for a long time.

A place where the Life By Design philosophy isn’t just something you read or listen to — but something you actually install. One habit at a time. One layer at a time.

With a community of people doing it alongside you and a structure that holds you accountable to yourself even when life gets loud.

It’s called Life By Design and it’s on Skool.

Twelve habits across four pillars — Think, Eat, Move, and Power By Design.

One new installation every 28 days.

A 90-Day Roadmap that builds the philosophy underneath everything so the habits actually land differently than every other time you’ve tried.

Comment “LBD” and I’ll let you know when our Founders options become available.

05/10/2026

I spend a lot of time talking about business. Building things. Growing things.

But if I’m being honest — the most important thing being built in our world isn’t happening at the office or in any of our businesses.

It’s happening at home. It’s building our relationship, homeschooling our kids, developing kind, loving and exceptional little humans.

Those are the pieces that make everything else even more worth the effort.

You show up for our kids every single day in ways that don’t get highlighted or celebrated nearly enough. No audience. No applause.

You make our family what it is.

Happy Mother’s Day. We love you. ❤️

04/30/2026

I want to tell you something I left out of that first post I had shared in a long time.

I almost didn't post it.

It had been sitting in my drafts for three days.

Written. Edited. Re-read probably twenty times.

And every time I went to hit send — I stopped.

Not because I didn't mean what I wrote.

Because hitting send made it real.

And real means accountable.

Seven years of building quietly — The Life By Design Centre, the programs, the family — none of that required me to show up publicly worldwide and say: here I am, here's what I'm building, here's what I believe.

That was safe.

Nobody could tell me it wasn't working if I never showed them what I was working on.

But staying quiet stopped feeling like safety a while ago.

It started feeling like drift.

And I know what drift costs.

I've watched it cost people years. Decades sometimes.

The life they wanted — sitting quietly in the gap between what they intended and what they actually did.

I didn't want that to be my story.

So I hit publish.

And something happened I didn't expect.

DM's and comments from people I hadn't heard from in years.

Not asking where I'd been.

To say: I've been waiting for this. I needed to hear this. Welcome back.

That meant more than I know how to say.

Here's what I've learned about the moments we almost don't do the thing...

The resistance is usually proportional to the importance.

The harder it is to hit send — the more it matters that you do.

The thing you keep almost starting. The conversation you keep almost having. The version of your life you keep almost building.

The almost is the signal.

Not the reason to stop.

The reason to go.

Whatever you're almost doing —

Do it.

Not because it will be easy.

Because the resistance means it matters.

Dr. Jamie

04/22/2026

Something nobody talks about.

You can be genuinely grateful for your life — and still feel like something is off.

At the same time.

Those two things aren't contradictory.

But we've been taught they are.

So when that feeling shows up — that quiet, nagging sense that something isn't quite right — most people do one of two things.

They push it down.

Because they feel guilty for feeling it at all.

Or they chase it.

More achievement. More milestones. More proof that life is good.

And neither one works.

Because the feeling isn't ingratitude.

It's not weakness.

It's not a sign something is wrong with you.

It's information.

It's your life telling you that what you've built — as good as it looks — wasn't fully designed.

It was accumulated.

Opportunity by opportunity. Expectation by expectation. Year by year.

Until one day you look up and realize you're living a life that fits — just not quite like it was made for you.

That tension has a name.

It's drift.

And drift isn't failure. It's just what happens when we're moving fast and building without a blueprint.

The problem isn't who you are.

It's that nobody taught us how to design a life on purpose.

How to get quiet enough to figure out what we actually want.

How to build structure around the things that matter most — before the things that matter least fill all the space.

That's what I've spent the last decade thinking about.

Not as a concept.

As a practice.

Tested across my own life. My health. My relationships. My work. My time.

And what I've found — every single time — is this.

The feeling doesn't go away with more effort.

It goes away with better design.

04/13/2026

Really looking forward to joining my long time friend Dr. Laurence Tham on this stage….

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Dr. Laurence Tham and Dr. Jamie Richards — two chiropractors, two very different paths, nearly 50 years of combined experience — are sitting down on Friday May 29th for an honest, unfiltered conversation about what it really takes to build a practice and a life you're proud of.

No slides. No pitch. No polish.
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