This is a "word/phrase collage" of some of the key events in my life so far.
Some of the words are in order others are random. You know, like a collage
Paper Routes & Lemonade stands
Computer Consulting
College NJIT - Soccer - Computers
Major health challenges with Hypoglycemia
AT&T employee for 365 days.
Discovered Nightingale-Conant
Earl Nightingale
Consulting Career started
Met Mike and Bob - two of my best friends and colleagues for 17 years
Landmark Education - did the Forum and everything else they offered! Including IFLP - best training in the world if you want to BE in front of a room.
Married
Made a fortune by 26
MBA - Monmouth college
Started a small business
"Think and Grow Rich"
Worked from home - hated it.
Made a pile of money
Beautiful home in the country
Lost it all by age 30
Got burned by a shady vendor who meant well
Had to close up shop many thousands in the hole
Divorced
"The Abundance book"
Discovered health food
Stuart Wilde
MLM - it went bankrupt
Worked for a small business - Earned a meager draw
Small apartment with a borrowed couch and no TV
Got Fired - Then closed a big deal for the company - Stayed fired
Lived with friends
More Consulting
Another MLM - great products, I love 'em, but I realize I don't enjoy trying to sell "stuff"
Hypoglycemia solved
Earned 6 figures
Paid everyone back
Traveled in Bolivia on a "Vision Quest" after reading the first 50 pages of "The Celestine Prophesy". Played lots of soccer
Coaching Soccer at Seton Hall U.
Coaching people as a profession
Another MLM - it went bankrupt - That's it, no more MLM's for me!
Thomas Leonard - Quite simply, the guy has had a profound impact on the direction of my life.
Discovered the "Teleclass" medium
Founded Health University and started personal coaching practice
Life on the Lake
Work at home - Loving it.
Created and taught "The Joy of Business" based on Thomas' Principles of Attraction for the Seton Hall U. MBA program
Decided to focus my teaching and coaching around "Personal Branding" - Health coaching was too much of an emotional drain.
My 3 core values: Freedom to Fly, Work that WOWs and Joyful Relationships
Sierra Cities.com - worked with this extremely dynamic organization as a consultant for 3 years. I've worked there longer than 90% of the employees!
Adopted Creating Brand YOU as the primary theme of my work
Coachville Lead Instructor / Dean of Graduate School of Coaching. I love teaching the programs based on the work of my friend / colleague Thomas Leonard
Created "Personal Branding"
program called Buck Branding primarily in response to a) the profound isolation felt by most solopreneurs including ME, and b) the huge free-agent solopreneur movement
