Are you satisfied that you’re taking care of your future?

Your economic and financial security could be gone in a second by forces beyond your control e.g. real estate speculation, financial instruments you don’t understand, over-burdened social programs, disruptive innovations, natural disasters, terrorism or wars that have defined the 21st century thus far.

What about the forces you can control?  Are you managing those?

There are many components or domains to your life e.g. work, family, health, spirituality and finance. You actually can predict with a reasonable degree of certainty your probable, almost certain future in each of these domains.

With a little courage and time to reflect you can predict your default future.  Ask yourself, “If I continue on the course I’m on now, what can I say about my situation in the future that I can be reasonably certain about ?”

What does your default future look like?

For your health?  Will you be a shining example of health and vitality in your 70’s, 80’s and beyond, or will you be enfeebled and unable to function independently?

What about your job?  Where will you be in ten or fifteen years?  Will you have climbed to the top of the corporate ladder, created new offers, businesses and accomplishments, or will you be doing the same job you’re doing now?

What about your financial future?  Will you be able to retire?  Will you be able to travel and devote your twilight years to activities that give you pleasure, or will you have to work much longer than you would like to take care of your most basic living requirements?

If your future’s so bright you’ve got to wear shades, congratulations and move on.

If you’re suffering silently and secretly scared or frustrated about how to get some traction in your life there is stuff here that can help.

So cheer up!  As long as you’re willing to do the work you can take take control of your personal ship of state.  By designing practices – the daily actions and attention you give to what’s important to you – you can strongly influence your quality of life five, ten, fifteen and twenty years down the road.  You can rewrite your default future.  The payoff now is the satisfaction that you’re taking care of business; that you’re on track.

If you don’t care, this site and my offers are not for you.

Should you care? Absolutely!  It’s your life for heaven’s sake!

Do you know your ambition?

Do you have purpose and clarity about what you are creating with your life?  Do you have a reason and purpose for your work that gives you passion?  Or does your work enslave you?

Do you enjoy what you do and the people you work with, or is your job something you tolerate so that you can earn the money you need to do what you really want?

Do you feel confident that your work produces real value for others or do you feel that your work doesn’t really matter?  Do you spend your day pushing buttons or papers in a system that doesn’t value you or your ambition?

Do you have a strategy to deal with change?

People change jobs with increasing frequency; it is no longer taboo in N. America to be fired; major companies can be toppled or even go out of business; new technologies are facilitating vibrant new possibilities to play, socialize, collaborate and invent than at any time before in human history.  Rapid change and a capacity to cope with it has become the dominant survival factor in the 21st century.

What happens if your company lets you go, or goes out of business?  What happens to you if your new boss turns out to be exploitive, and tyrannical?  Can you leave?  Can you find another job or create something on your own?

How do you ensure that your value goes up and not down with time?

How is this website relevant to you?

While the ideas and practices you will learn about here will help you in every area of your life, they are specifically focused on where you spend most of your waking hours i.e. your work, your business, and your career.

Your relationship to work, business and career is the foundation for every other area of your life, and you can either bury your head in the sand and pretend that you have it handled, or you can acknowledge the reality of your circumstance and where your future is leading you.

The ideas, concepts, practices and resources you will find here are relevant to your enjoyment and fulfillment at work; to your experience of work as either draining and killing or rewarding and liberating; to your ability to become autonomous or a free agent who is able to create dynamic and valuable offers of help to customers or employers as opposed to getting a job based on your age doing exactly what you have done in the past.

To business owners, managers or anyone who depends on teamwork for their success, this site is relevant to team morale and performance as it contains information and offers related to the essential nature of how human beings work together.

How can this website help you?

The information and offers you will find updated here will help you understand and operate from fundamentals essential to your success at work, business and career.   This website will help you design the practices necessary to win at your career or business.

Specifically, the offers and information you find here will help you to:

  • Have confidence that you are really able to produce products or services that people value.
  • Increase your capacities to adapt your offers to changing market conditions
  • Reduce or remove your dependence on any one client or employer
  • Build personal, team, department or company reputations of trust and competence
  • Build productive, rewarding and supportive work environments
  • Unstick a stalled career
  • Create your personal ambition and live from it
  • Create the learning, planning, designing, quitting, relationship and conversation practices necessary to have a successful business or career
  • Understand and leverage the fundamental nature of how human beings work together, and why performance and relationships often break down
  • Understand how your current understanding of fundamental concepts like truth, help, independence, responsibility, story and integrity may be stunting your business and personal growth
  • See that there is no substitute for identifying and practicing the fundamentals of any sport, art, profession, career or business if you want to win or do well
  • Identify the fundamentals and designing practices for them
  • And more …

Where does all of this information come from?

The ideas, information, products and services you find is my unique synthesis of hundreds of books, seminars, courses, articles, coaching and life experiences that constitute my own personal ongoing practice of education.

There are many ideas and concepts that I reference and learn from and wherever appropriate, necessary or helpful I will point you to those sources.

Last thing

This is not about a quick fix and I can make no promises (nor can anyone else) that you will get the result you want after any single course, session or article.  If nothing else you will certainly be weaned off of the quick fix, magic bullet mentality that has millions of people trying to solve their problems by throwing money at the latest marketing hype.

I can help you design the practices you must sustain – just like in sports, music and the major professions – if you want to improve your game in business, and career.

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I wish you more out of life by beginning the Practice of Your life.  Why not start today?