January 25, 2026

Welcome to the Workshop

You have spent years following the instructions, but the recipes stopped working. Welcome to the Workshop: a field manual for soul-hungry misfits ready to escape the Empire's formulas, retake the Throne Room, and build a life on Relationship rather than rules.

Noir-style workbench with a notebook, microphone, and map under a single light. Background shows torn corporate charts, symbolizing the rejection of success recipes.
The Empire sells recipes. The Workshop builds relationship. The tools are ready.

Stop looking for the recipe. Start building the relationship.

QUICK NAVIGATION: THE TOOLBOX


1. The Diagnosis: Are you in the right place?

If you are reading this, you likely feel "out of sync."

You might be successful on paper, but internally, you feel like a glitch in the system. You are masking to survive. You see patterns others miss. You are an Undercover Agent in a world that thinks you are just an employee or a leader.

You are here because you suspect the system is rigged. You have followed the instructions, bought the books, and memorised the "5 Steps to Success."

But the recipes stopped working.


2. The Audit: Who is on your Throne?

The world tells you to fix your life by changing your behaviour, but the Kingdom says you must change your source. You cannot stop being formed, but you can choose the engine driving that formation.

A) The Throne Room Test

  • If "The Recipe" (Success/Mammon) sits on the Throne, you will be formed into a Machine. Machines burn out.
  • If Jesus sits on the Throne, you will be formed into a Son or Daughter. Sons and Daughters have authority.

B) The Fruit Check

Look at what you are producing with the 4F Engine.

  • The Empire Way: You use your gifts to burn yourself out. The fruit is anxiety and exhaustion.
  • The Kingdom Way: You use your gifts to light up your field. The fruit is peace and authority.

3. Know Your Enemy (Victor vs. Alex)

To retake the Throne, you need to know who is fighting for it. There is a civil war in your head between two voices:

  1. Victor (The Kingdom Authority): This is who you were created to be. Bold, grounded, connected to the Father.
  2. Alex (The Anxiety): This is the voice of the Empire.

The Weapon of the Enemy: The Recipe

Alex doesn't just use fear; he uses formulas.

Alex tells you that to be safe, you need to follow the recipe. Do this to get rich. Do that to get God to like you.

The Enemy wants you addicted to the Recipe so you never rely on the Relationship.


4. The Tools: How We Fight

We do not offer magic pills. We do not offer a "Secret Sauce." We offer tools to help Victor defeat Alex and help you retake the Throne.

FieldNotes (The Sketches)

Weekly wisdom to anchor your soul.

Short, story-based updates to keep your focus sharp and your eyes on the Kingdom.

FieldCast (The Conversation)

The deep dive.

We explore the clash between Kingdom and Empire, smashing the idols of "success formulas" and validating your intuition.

FieldGuides (The Protocols)

The framework.

Inspiration without application is hallucination. These are the STEPS protocols to move you from Egypt to the Promised Land. These are not recipes; they are frameworks for alignment.


5. Help when I am offline

I am the Lighthouse, but I cannot be everywhere.

So I built A.R.G. (The Apprentice’s (mostly) Reliable Guide). It is a custom intelligence trained on the "Old Guard" wisdom, designed to help you self-navigate when I am not around.


6. Why I built this (About the KFA)

I am John Michael. I am the Kingdom Formation Architect.

I am not a Guru. I don't have a "secret formula."

In fact, I spent 45 years building a fortress out of recipes. From Mrs Beeton’s cookbook to IT systems to business "laws," I believed that if I followed the instructions, I could control the outcome.

It was a lie. I wasted decades perfecting a recipe for a life God never asked me to cook.

** The Full Story: FieldCast 005**

I tell the full story of my addiction to recipes—and the "Greasy Spoon" moment that changed everything—in this specific episode. If you are struggling to let go of control, start here.

On July 4, 2014, I flatlined. I saw the Reality behind the curtain. Since then, my assignment has been simple: Stay on the rock, shine the light, and hand out the maps.

Welcome to What's Better Today.


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