Five Year Life

Take Control – Discover How To Define YOUR Future Life – Define Your Future Point B

“The future depends on what we do in the present.” ~Mahatma Gandhi.
What are you doing in YOUR present to get to YOUR five year future Point B?

I’d like to share with you a valuable thought process that might give you some critical insights into your personal future. The questions are very simple.

It’s the answers that will affect the rest of your life.

And, yes, I know this may sound like the same trite question you probably got on your first job interview.  But that was when you were a kid. With all that you have now experienced, you should have the insight to answer the questions with your current goals in mind.

Hope Is Having A “Point B”

As many of you may already know, I have two apparently disparate careers: one, as an internationally-known management consultant to start up and emerging companies – two, as a relationship expert and published author of a book called, “Efficient Love.”

Even though this combination may seem strange, these two parallel careers are really not as dissimilar as they might first appear.

As a matter of fact, these two different personal focal points I have share a common, passionate mission of mine:  Helping people get from their current Point A to their desired Point B – for both their personal life and their business life.

I want to help you finally define the right-for-you Point B for your life – there is absolutely no cost, no obligation – just my best wishes that you find your Point B sooner than later.

Your Four BIG Dots

One of the ways I help start up and emerging companies is through my Deviled Details Action Planning Service.  This helps my clients identify the right answers to The Big Four Dots that are required to get from Point A to Point B.   They are:

• Personal Plan (which is what I am sharing with you for free.)
• Financial Model – which shows if the business can make money and if so – how much.
• Action Plan – which, among other things, identifies
  W Cubed = Who?  Is Doing What? When?
• Business Plan – which lays out the strategy and tactics for getting to Point B.

You can get more details on that service at www.DeviledDetails.com.

The important part for those of you not starting a company is:  You have the same Big Four Dots for yourself to worry about.

• Personal Plan – is the same methodology for what you want for you whether you are starting a company or not.
• Financial Model – how are you going to budget and earn and spend – so that you get to the financial Point B you want for you personally?
• Action Plan – what is your step-by-step plan for all those Deviled Details that are required to get where you want to be in five years, or sooner?
• Business Plan – in your case, it is the business of YOU – what are your strategy and tactics for life that are going to be focused on getting you to your Point B?

My same Deviled Details Action Planning Service is being used by individuals also – so they can accelerate accomplishment of their vision for their own life.

But all of it, for individual and for businesses, starts with this same Quiz.  This is Big Dot 1 – the first major insight – for all clients.  And,  I am giving this to you here for free.

Axioms of Life

After three decades of experience pursuing my mission of helping folks get to their Point B, I’ve learned a few axioms of life that I want to share with you:

• Too many folks never consider that they have control of their own destiny. As a result, they never know where they’re going – and they end up taking too many dead-end trails that lead to nowhere because they never understood they had the right and the ability to choose their Point B.

• Too many folks procrastinate even the micro-decisions that affect their life path. As a result, they are frozen by indecisiveness when it comes to the big decisions because they never take responsibility for defining their own Point B.

• Too many folks consider two weeks to be long term planning. As a result, they end up making reflex decisions that get them off the right path because they never defined their right Point B past a two-week timeline.

• If you are already in a long-term relationship, you and your significant-other need to have a similar desired Point B destination and a shared path to reach it.

• If you don’t share the same Point B, at some other point your paths will probably go different directions – with the result that each of you may end up going your separate ways. This is discussed in great detail in my book, “Efficient Love” – so, if you need more information about this, buy the book at www.Amazon.com or get more information at my web site, www.EfficientLove.com.

• You and your career goals need to have a similar desired Point B destination. If you are even considering starting a company, your very first decision needs to be your definition of the right-for-you personal Point B. Not everyone is cut out to be an entrepreneur – and it may make a lot more sense, for a lot of reasons, for you to work for someone else. Even then, your career decisions need to be congruent with your personal Point B.

• The choice between starting and running a company – versus working for someone else’s company will depend upon what is right for you. But either way, your personal desired Point B needs to be on the same path as your business Point B — or you will have dragons galore that will need to be slayed on a regular basis.

Part of my personal mission is to help you make sure you’re on the right path to YOUR desired Point B – helping you define what is right for you.

This Is One Of My Ways Of “Paying It Forward” To The World

The premise of my personal mission is:  If folks will freely choose and fully define their DESIRED Point B, they are much more likely to reach their DESIRED Point B.

I use the following Quiz as a starting point for most all of my consulting clients — whether it’s for Efficient Love or my management consulting related to starting or growing a company. Until I know my clients’ real and personal Point B, I can’t fully understand how to give them the very best help possible.

But beyond this business use, I strongly believe that everyone can greatly benefit from this methodology. Every man, woman and near-adult child can use this basic approach to more fully take control of their own lives.

I’ve been using this Quiz with business clients and relationship clients alike for the past dozen years. During that time, it has been gratifying to see the overwhelming, positive impact it has had on so many folks.

Because of these successes, I already know this process can help those who approach it with an open mind.

Because these issues are so important to virtually everyone’s life, I want to offer this Workbook as a free gift to everyone – so you can realistically take control of your life and find the congruent path to your own fulfilling personal Point B.

It is my way of “paying it forward” to the world — whether we ever do business together or not.  Even if there is less than a zero chance we will ever work together – I still want you to grab this Quiz for YOU!

If this Quiz even helps you have one insight that will help you get more quickly to YOUR desired Point B, then that is all the reward I want.

Congruency

I promise this won’t take long – but the next 10 minutes might possibly give you some life changing epiphanies. Such as: Does your new company or career REALLY fit the lifestyle you say is important to you and your family?

Consider your personal gain if even one of these epiphanies, or even one “Ah Ha” moment of clarity, gives you the right answer to a pivotal question BEFORE you start your new company, change jobs or hook up in that next romantic relationship?

Wouldn’t even one epiphany be a great ROI for this 10 minute investment of your time?

In the following 10 minute Quiz, stop all of your multiplexing for a few minutes. Instead, think about you.

• What are YOU going to be doing five years from today?

• What will be your ideal Five Year Life?

• What are the right tactical and strategic decisions for YOU?

Unless you know where you WANT to go in your personal life, it’s going to be difficult to make a lot of the right business and personal decisions that you will face every day, week and year between now and five years from now.

Discover YOUR Point B

If you’re getting ready to start a new company, you’re getting ready to start down a long path that might lead to success and riches – or failure and ruin. Your journey down this path may consume a good portion of the next year or even decades of your life.

Whether you’re starting a new company or are working for someone else’s company, the question is still the same:

Are you going to end up with a business life that is totally congruent with your personal needs – and the needs of your family?

Download and take this 82 Question Quiz for free – and discover exactly what is important to YOUR Five Year Life.

One Request

If you find this process helpful and personally insightful for your own life, my one request is that you, too, pay it forward by sending at least three of your friends you care about to this website so they can have their own copy of the Quiz. (Check back often to get the latest version – I will be adding more content to new editions during the coming weeks and months!)

Fair enough?

Get It For Free – Yours Just For The Taking

Just complete the form at the top of the page with your first name and primary email address so you can immediately receive the download instructions.

Warm wishes that your Point B is all you have ever hoped for,

Robert Lee Goodman, MBA
www.RobertLeeGoodman.com

PS:  If you found the Quiz insightful and helpful or have other ideas, comments, suggestions, or find errors, please leave a testimonial / comment below.  Thanks!

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