More about me, specifically more about “why now?”

Posted on November 20, 2007
Filed Under 4 Hour Work Week, bio, meta |

In the first entry on this blog I posed the question “why me and why now?”. I realized reading back over it that I only answered half of the question. So since you know my motivations for changing my personal life, I’ll give you some background about the personal context.

The impact that “The 4-Hour Work Week” had on me could possibly be a matter of timing. I had gone through a bunch of personal transformations and was already questioning a lot of the assumptions I had about life and how I wanted to live it. I’m not trying to evoke sympathy or anything like that, but my discovery of the book came at the end of a very difficult period in my life. Within a matter of days one of my best friends was in a serious car accident, a major project I was trying to put together to infuse some capital in my business fell apart, and a girl I had fallen head over heels for and wanted to marry dumped me without warning and without explanation. The upheaval in my romantic life was sort of the last straw–this was the first woman I’d met since my divorce that didn’t make me feel like I was “trading down”. On the heels of the other two big crises of the week it felt like karma had set me up with a couple of jabs and was trying to knock me out with an uppercut.

With all that was going on in my life its not surprising that I was in a questioning mode about how I wanted to live and what I wanted to do. Reading 4HWW essentially provided the answers to the questions I was asking. It was as if the universe had taken drastic action to knock me off of the wrong path, and my serendipitous discovery of the book was the road map I was being given to get back on the *right* path.

So that’s the personal context in which I embark upon the effort to re-design my personal and professional lifestyle. It was as if my previous path in life had come to a dead end by crashing into a brick wall, but as a result of the chaos I’ve found the direction that I should have been moving in all along.

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