Design Your Next Five Years — On Purpose
Five Year Life™
Chart Your Five Year Future™
A Calm, Structured Way Forward – When Life No Longer Fits
There are moments when life changes so decisively that the path you were walking simply stops making sense. Sometimes it happens slowly – a growing dissatisfaction you can’t quite name, a quiet resistance to routines that once felt right, a sense that something important has drifted out of alignment. Other times it happens all at once: a job loss, a forced career pivot, a relationship rupture, a health scare, or the sudden realization that the world you prepared for no longer exists in the same form.
When that happens, most people don’t need hype or pressure. They need a calm, reliable structure that helps them regain clarity, stabilize their footing, and make grounded decisions without panic. The Five Year Life™ series exists for exactly that moment – not to “pump you up,” but to help you think clearly again, then move forward with quiet confidence and a plan that actually fits who you are.
What Five Year Life™ Is Really About
Over the past several years, something shifted – quietly at first, then unmistakably. Messages began arriving from people I had worked with decades earlier: founders, executives, professionals, and people who had done everything “right” according to the old rules. They weren’t asking for motivation. They were asking for a way to think again, because the world that made their plan feel safe had changed underneath them.
They all said some version of the same thing: their job was gone, their industry was shrinking, AI had erased roles that once felt stable, and the future no longer resembled the plan they built their lives around. These weren’t isolated stories. They were early warning signals of a much larger disruption – one touching every age group, every pay band, and nearly every profession. When enough people experience that kind of instability at the same time, “just be positive” stops being advice and starts sounding like an insult.
For more than forty years, I’ve mentored thousands of individuals through reinvention – career transitions, financial resets, relationship upheavals, and the quiet devastation of feeling lost inside a life that no longer fits. But never – not once – had I seen this many people needing clarity at the same time. That wave of disruption is what gave birth to the Five Year Life™ series: practical frameworks that help you replace fear and confusion with structure, perspective, and grounded decision-making.
Start Where You Are – This Series Was Built for Real Life
Five Year Life™ is a series of books designed to be used, not admired. Each title meets you where you are – whether you’re in crisis, transition, or quiet reevaluation – and helps you move forward without rushing, spiraling, or pretending. You will not be pushed into “burn it all down” thinking here. The goal is alignment: getting honest about what’s true, deciding what matters most, and taking steps that you can actually sustain.
Each book stands on its own. Together, they form a coherent system for navigating change with clarity and dignity. If you only read one book, you’ll still get value. If you move through multiple titles, you’ll start to see how the same decision architecture applies across work, identity, relationships, and the practical realities of money and uncertainty.
Featured Books
Your Last Paycheck™
Navigating Job Loss and Layoffs in the Age of AI
Roughly 40 million Americans lost their jobs through layoffs and discharges in the last two years (Bureau of Labor Statistics, JOLTS; 2024 total and 2025 annualized through November). This may include some of the same people losing their jobs more than once!
That number does not include the additional ~78 million resignations reported separately by the Bureau of Labor Statistics over the same period – a category that also captures a meaningful but uncounted number of “forced resignations!”
Job loss is never just a financial event. It’s an identity shock, a loss of stability, and a rupture in how you understand your own value. And in today’s economy, finding stable work often takes far longer than people expect – especially as AI continues to reshape entire professions. Your Last Paycheck™ was written to prevent panic-driven decisions during one of the most vulnerable periods of a person’s life.
The first half of the book provides a calm, step-by-step stabilization plan for the critical early weeks: what to secure, what to protect, how to preserve both finances and emotional footing. The second half offers a realistic blueprint for navigating the AI-driven job market – including how to assess which roles are expanding, which are quietly disappearing, and how to reposition yourself without chasing false promises.
Coming Soon – in Kindle, paperback, hardback, and Audible formats!
For more information: FiveYearLife.com/YourLastPaycheck
Reset Protocol™
A Structured Method for Resetting Your Life in Five Focused Years
There comes a point in nearly every life when the internal alignment that once held everything together begins to fracture. You feel it before you can explain it – a heaviness, a resistance, a sense that you are living slightly out of phase with yourself. Reset Protocol™ exists for that moment. It guides you through 108 carefully sequenced questions designed to reveal patterns you’ve lived with for years, surface truths you may have been avoiding, and help you see your life with clarity rather than judgment.
You’ll also learn the Five-Year Lens™ – a future-focused way to evaluate decisions based on who you are becoming, not just what you’re trying to escape. Reset Protocol™ is not about blowing up your life; it’s about realignment – done deliberately, honestly, and with realistic compassion.
Coming Soon – in Kindle, paperback, hardback, and Audible formats!
For more information: FiveYearLife.com/ResetProtocol
Reset Protocol Workbook™
The Companion Workbook for Deep Reflection & Immediate Action
Reset Protocol Workbook™ is built for the moment when reading a powerful framework is not enough. Some people absorb insight by reading. Other people need a structured place to apply it immediately – to write, reflect, decide, and turn clarity into a next step they can actually take. This workbook is the write-in companion to Reset Protocol™, designed to help you make the 108 questions personal, practical, and real, in your own words.
For each of the 108 questions, the workbook gives you guided space to think more clearly than you can in your head, plus additional angles to consider so you do not accidentally answer in the easiest or most socially acceptable way. It is not therapy, and it is not busywork. It is decision architecture in workbook form: honest reflection that leads to a grounded 24-hour action, so you build momentum without overwhelm.
Most importantly, the workbook works for both ends of real life. It supports readers who are in distress and trying to stabilize, and it also supports readers who are doing well and simply want to redesign the next five years with intention. Open to the question that fits today, write the honest answer, choose one small action, and stop. That is a complete win – and over time, those wins become a reset you can actually sustain.
Coming Soon – in Kindle, paperback, hardback, and Audible formats!
For more information: FiveYearLife.com/ResetProtocolWorkbook
Efficient Love™
I Had 1,200 First Dates So You Don’t Have To™
Most relationship pain is not caused by bad intentions. It’s caused by misalignment – values that don’t match, life goals that collide, communication styles that quietly erode trust, and assumptions people don’t realize they’re making until the cost is already high. Efficient Love™ is a structured guide to compatibility, emotional readiness, decision-making, and the patterns that determine whether relationships deepen or slowly collapse over time.
Coming Soon – in Kindle, paperback, hardback, and Audible formats!.
For more information: FiveYearLife.com/EfficientLove
Stark Naked Startup™ (Special Preview)
An upcoming novel by Robert Lee Goodman – not part of the Five Year Life™ series, but worth a look
Stark Naked Startup™ is a separate project – a novel set in Florence, Italy that blends intense romance, entrepreneurship, reinvention, ethics, and human connection inside a rapidly changing technological world. While it is not part of the Five Year Life™ series, it explores themes that echo across the nonfiction work: identity, disruption, alignment, and the cost of getting success right and the future wrong. Maybe even dead wrong.
Coming Soon – in Kindle, paperback, hardback, and Audible formats!
For more information: FiveYearLife.com/StarkNakedStartup
Advance Reader Community (ARC)
If any of these books speak to your current season of life, you’re invited to join the Five Year Life™ Advance Reader Community. ARC members receive early gratis access to selected materials, practical updates as manuscripts evolve, and a clear path to help these books reach the people who need them most.
ARC participation is simple: you read early, you share what helped (and what didn’t), and if you choose, you post an honest review on launch day. Early reviews are one of the most important signals that helps a book reach the right readers quickly.
Join the ARC: FiveYearLife.com/ARC
Chart Your Five Year Future™
Reinvention is no longer optional for many people – it is required. But reinvention does not have to be chaotic, and it does not require burning everything down. With the right structure, the next five years of your life can be approached calmly, intentionally, and with a deeper sense of ownership than you’ve ever had before.
That is the promise of Five Year Life™: a warm, seasoned guide and a practical system that helps you move forward with clarity, dignity, and a plan you can actually live.