Paul’s Story

If you are reading this, there is a good chance you have found yourself at a crossroads in your career and possibly your life.

“To forget one’s purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.”
     – Friedrich Nietzsche

That was then

Are you in the middle of an extremely challenging time where you are questioning many of your underlying assumptions about your career and perhaps other aspects of your life? Are you feeling a gamut of emotions, from fear to excitement, confusion to clarity, and hopelessness to hope?

In 2000, I ran a company that became a casualty of the bursting dot.com bubble. I found myself without a job, an income, and a clue as to what to do next. Three months later, I was diagnosed with cancer and underwent surgery and radiation. Six months after that, I separated from my wife and subsequently divorced.

This was a profoundly stressful and scary time in my life. The three pillars of my life; my job, my health, and my marriage, were yanked out from under me in a matter of months. The very foundation of my world was rocked, and it shook me to the core.

It was starting to dawn on me that the Universe was trying to tell me something, and it appeared as if there was an endless supply of 2×4’s with which it intended to make its point. I repeatedly asked the same questions: “How did this happen?” “What went wrong?” “How did I let things come to this?” “Was there anything I could have done to prevent this?” “What does it all mean?”

I would subsequently realize that I was suffering from a massive case of stupidity that the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche referred to in the quote above. It has been over 20 years since the wheels fell off in my life during a time that I can now say was the most difficult and rewarding period of my life.

Wow. I was flattered, excited, and a bit anxious because I was going to have to make it up as I went.

I told Chris I would love the opportunity to work with him and that if he were willing to be a guinea pig, I would do my best to provide him with a program that met his needs. We shook hands, and off we went.

I am happy to say it was one of the best decisions I have made in my life, and I didn’t even have to think it up on my own. In fact, my guess is the harder I would have tried to sit down and try and think up this program prior to my meeting with Chris, the more it would have eluded me.

I am offering you a highly developed version of the original program I offered to Chris in 2001. I have since worked with hundreds of individuals like Chris to help them find their passion and purpose in life and achieve the level of prosperity (in the fullest sense of the word) they have always dreamed of.

In short, they created their dream jobs.

Only you can uncover that by going inside and connecting with your true self to find your passion and sense of meaning. I believe I have created a program that will serve as your guide as you embark on what I hope is an amazing time of self-discovery, culminating in a life of challenging and rewarding work. I often joke, quite seriously, that this program is for those of you who are still trying to figure out what you want to be NOW that you are all grown up.

Today, you may feel hopelessly stuck in your current job, uncertain which way to go, dreading that you will spend the rest of your life in a dead-end career that brings you little joy.

You may feel a nagging sense that there must be more to your existing work, some way to evolve beyond its current confines and reach a new level of challenge, satisfaction, and impact. Perhaps you feel that you were meant to do something different, more meaningful…something that gives you a deep sense of purpose that takes full advantage of your many talents, feeds your curiosity, and energizes you to the point that you truly look forward to going to work in the morning.

I have come to firmly believe that each of us has a purpose in life, a reason to be here, and that we have an innate drive to fulfill that purpose through our work, relationships, and the kind of person we are. However, we get sidetracked from that purpose, oftentimes early in life, and experience what Nietzsche declared to be the commonest form of stupidity, which is to, in fact, forget that purpose.

I was one of those people. After several years as a corporate climber in two Fortune 50 organizations and an entrepreneur at the helm of a dot.com bomb, I was chasing the American dream. I was hoping to make my millions, and then I would go on to do what I really loved, a statement that I have heard countless times from my clients. To say that I had gotten sidetracked was a gross understatement. I had lost my job, my health, and my wife. The wheels had come completely off my little red wagon, and I hit the ditch…hard!

Although I had been experiencing all the symptoms of a miserable job, including the Sunday night blues, not wanting to get out of the car when I arrived at work, my workday passing very slowly, and a deep sense of dread, I was lying to myself about just how unhappy I was. I had seen the indications all along, but I rationalized them away and convinced myself that the “bridge out ahead” signs didn’t apply to me.

Do you feel like you are at a crossroads in your career? Feeling stuck? Uncertain where to go from here?

Are you thinking back to how many times you were asked as a child WHAT you wanted to be WHEN you grew up? It seemed like you had your entire life to figure it out. Now you are older and wondering if you will waste the rest of your life in a job you cannot stand without knowing where to go from here. I can help. I understand how you feel. I have been in your shoes and truly understand how miserable it can be.

I have designed this Career Transition Program to give you a step-by-step process of practical action items that you can DO immediately to realize your full potential and pursue your life’s purpose.

This program is based on the fundamental idea of WHO you are, not WHAT you are. If you continue to search “out there” for the perfect job, you will forever feel the way you do now. It is much like chasing the mirage in the desert or trying to reach the horizon; it forever recedes into the distance.

Once you figure out who you are “in here,” inside yourself, the WHAT takes care of itself. As one of my favorite modern-day philosophers, Ken Wilber is fond of saying, “We go inward not to go backward, but to go beyond.”

The WHAT has been elusive precisely because you have not been you–your authentic self. Instead, we tend to develop what psychologists call a reflective sense of self that tries to become what we think everyone else wants us to be, not who we truly are or want to be.

No wonder we get sidetracked and forget our purpose. When you have the courage to go inward and clear away all the stuff that we are force-fed by society, our parents, our friends, our colleagues, and the media, and get rid of what you think you should do, then you can discover your true self and your true work.

This program is about going beyond and creating your dream job and your new destiny.

Over the past several years, I have worked with countless people like me, like you, to help them discover their passion what they love to do most, and then help them create their dream job. Then, they can express that passion and purpose daily through their work and achieve a level of prosperity they did not think was possible.