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How NOT to Blow Up Your Life
I speak and write about Reinventing and Starting Over.
I share the tools and processes I’ve created over the last seven years that have allowed me to transform from losing everything and wanting to kill myself to living a life I love.
I excel at Reinventing.
But there is something I don’t discuss, and it’s something that needs to be addressed.
How not to blow up your life in the 1st place.
You see, in 2012, I had what many would say was it all — a successful career, beautiful wife, multiple homes, nice cars, and watches. I ate at the best restaurants, drank the best wine.
I was living a life that wasn’t true to myself. I was living a life that was not in alignment with what I truly wanted.
This isn’t to say I didn’t enjoy my lifestyle — I did. But it was on a superficial level. Deep down, I knew it was all fake, all smoke and mirrors.
My self-worth, my sense of being enough, my identity, who I am as a human being on this planet, was inextricably tied to the things I owned and my ability to buy those things.
I was desperately trying to fill a broken vessel, and I was too blind to see that I never could.