Last updated November 16th, 2023 at 04:44 pm

Who among us has not failed from time to time to do the things we know we should do?

Clinical psychologist Steve Levinson has dedicated his career to helping people turn their good intentions into life-improving action.

In the late 1990s, Dr. Levinson co-authored a landmark book, Following Through: A Revolutionary New Model for Finishing Whatever You Start — the book that brought Steve and me together. In it, Steve explains why we humans often do such a lousy job of following through, and he introduces readers to bold new ideas about what it actually takes to follow through in light of how the mind really does work instead of how we only think it should work.

For many years, Steve and I have tossed around the idea of working on a website that could help people gain the power to follow through. I’m pleased to announce that that project has come to fruition. In other words, we finally followed through on the plan.

The new Web site, followingthrough.org, is a WordPress- and MemberPress-based membership site that offers both free and paid lifetime memberships/enrollments: the Follow Through Introductory Program and the Follow Through Master Program, respectively.

Program Features

Courses

The site currently offers three courses:

1. Following Through: A New Perspective
   The course consists of 15 lessons that drive home the fact poor follow through is the natural consequence of the flawed human mind.
2. Following Through Strategies
   This course teaches seven proven strategies for improving follow through.
3. Adopting a Follow Through Mindset
   This course aims to help you adopt and maintain an enlightened attitude, an outlook, and a philosophy that’s designed to maximize the effectiveness of all your intentions from now on.

Introductory Program enrollees have access to the first course; Master Program Enrollees have access to all three courses.

Additional Resources

Master Program enrollees can access and take advantage of a number of resources designed to help them succeed on their follow through journeys.

The main resource is an encrypted online Intention Management System (aka the “Vault”) that allows enrollees to privately record intentions and track progress.

Compare programs here.

Website Features (Technical)

On the technical side, here is a partial listing of noteworthy software components.

• GeneratePress Theme
• GP Premium
• MemberPress
• MemberPress Addons:
  • MemberPress Courses
  • MemberPress Account Tabs
  • MemberPress Downloads
• Gravity Forms
• Gravity Perks:
  • GP Post Content Merge Tags
  • GP Reload Form
• Gravity View
• Gravity Forms Encrypted Fields
• Members (for user role management)
• BetterDocs (Knowledgebase and FAQs)

(For articles about solutions implemented at FollowingThrough.org, see this one about a custom MemberPress shortcode and this one about a course-progress page.)

In Closing

Check out FollowingThrough.org — and consider enrolling! The Follow Through Introductory Program is free.