Reset Protocol

Reset Protocol™
Beyond The Road Less Traveled: The Road Most Desired™

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508 pages · 8.25″ x 11″ executive format · 108 questions across 22 chapters

Instead of the Road Less Traveled, have you ever done more than daydream about your own, completely personal Road Most Desired?

You are not alone in asking.

More than 40 million Americans have been laid off in the last 24 months. Another 80 million have voluntarily quit — walking away from the road they were on without yet knowing what road they actually wanted. And standing quietly behind those 120 million are tens of millions more: people who have not quit and have not been laid off, but who still show up every day to careers on the Road Most Traveled, or even the Road Less Traveled, knowing in some private corner of themselves that neither one is their Road Most Desired.

And what is happening in America is happening across the developed world. Europe is living through the same upheaval, arguably more acutely. Asia is feeling it. Even economies once thought insulated are now experiencing the same inflation, the same layoffs, and the same AI-driven restructuring no nation has lived through before. This is not only an American story. It is a sociological sea change greater than anything the modern world has experienced — and you are part of it, wherever you live, whichever road you are currently on.

You may already be enthusiastically and urgently traveling the Road Most Traveled, or even the Road Less Traveled. But as I have said for over fifteen years: the only thing worse than going in the wrong direction is going in the wrong direction enthusiastically. Every day on the wrong road is a day permanently subtracted from the time you will have at your Most Desired Point B — and that time is the real prize.

You wake up with a heaviness you can’t quite name. The job that once felt like a badge of honor now feels like a slowly tightening collar. The relationship that used to feel alive feels more like logistics. You catch yourself thinking, “I didn’t picture my life turning out like this,” and then you push the thought away because you’re busy, or tired, or afraid of what it might mean if you really looked at it.

That quiet, uncomfortable awareness has a name. It means you have grown past the road you are currently on — and the Road Most Desired is somewhere you have not yet allowed yourself to name.

Reset Protocol™ is the book that gives it a name.

What This Book Helps You Do

Reset Protocol™ gives you a clear, structured way to:

Make an honest assessment of your Current Point A — exactly where you are right now, across work, money, relationships, health, and purpose.
Define with unmistakable clarity what your Most Desired Point B actually looks like — yours, specifically, no one else’s.
Name the gap between the road you are walking and the Road Most Desired you have been avoiding.
See how your current choices play out five years from now if nothing changes.
Move from vague restlessness to specific, actionable clarity.

This isn’t “burn it all down and move to Bali” advice.
It’s architecture for your Road Most Desired.

How the Book Is Structured

The book is built in three major movements:

Part 1 — Naming the Road You Are On

You’ll learn:

Why so many smart, capable people end up traveling the Road Most Traveled, or the Road Less Traveled, knowing privately that neither is the Road Most Desired.
The difference between normal discomfort and the deeper signal that says you have outgrown the road you are on.
How small compromises, made over years, add up to a life you never consciously chose.
Why old stories about who you “should” be keep dragging you away from who you really are.

This section gives you language and frameworks for what you have been feeling, so you stop blaming yourself and start seeing the pattern.

Part 2 — The 108 Questions

At the heart of Reset Protocol™ is a carefully designed set of 108 questions across 22 chapters. These questions are not casual journal prompts. They are drawn from 33,000 candid one-on-one conversations across four and a half decades of mentoring, and they are engineered to surface what your heart and mind have been trying to tell you for years.

The 108 questions are designed to:

Surface patterns you have repeated for years without noticing.
Reveal where you are out of integrity with your own values.
Highlight the gaps between what you say matters and how you actually live.
Show you which parts of your life are quietly eroding your energy, confidence, or hope.

Each question includes:

A short story or vignette that makes the issue real.
Context for why this question matters so much over a five-year horizon.
A guided reflection prompt.
A Hope Moment that shows what becomes possible when you answer honestly.

Reset Protocol™ does not tell you what your Road Most Desired should look like. The questions simply make it impossible to keep pretending you do not already know.

By the time you have worked through all 108 questions, you will never look at your life the same way again.

Part 3 — Walking the Road Most Desired

Questions are powerful, but they’re not enough by themselves.

The final section of Reset Protocol™ walks you through a practical, grounded process for turning your insights into a real-world plan:

How to choose which changes to make first (and which to leave alone for now).
How to protect what’s already working while you repair what isn’t.
How to sequence your reset so you’re not blowing up five parts of your life at once.
How to use the Five-Year Lens™ to keep your decisions aligned with where you actually want to end up.
How to build in flexibility so your reset can adapt as your life evolves.

You’ll finish with a clear five-year direction toward your Most Desired Point B — and a realistic next-90-days action path to start walking it.

Strategy defines the destination. The Road Most Desired — yours, specifically, no one else’s — finally has a name. And from that moment forward, every decision you make comes down to one question: is this getting me closer to my Most Desired Point B?

Who This Book Is For

Reset Protocol™ is for you if:

You are one of the tens of millions who recently voluntarily quit because you knew, in some private corner of yourself, that you had outgrown the road you were on — and you have not yet named the Road Most Desired you actually want to walk.
You are still employed but quietly know your current career, industry, geography, or role is no longer the Road Most Desired for the person you have become.
Your life looks fine from the outside, but feels wrong from the inside.
You have achieved goals that were supposed to make you happy and instead feel strangely hollow.
You have outgrown a career, relationship, city, or identity — but feel stuck on what to do next.
You are tired of short-term hacks and want a durable, honest framework for the next five years of your life.

It’s also for people who love someone going through a reset and want to understand what they’re truly facing.

For Corporate Buyers: A Practical Tool for Stability, Retention, and Recovery

Reset Protocol™ is not only for individual readers. It is also an unusually strong fit for organizations that care about resilience, stability, and humane performance in an era where uncertainty is no longer occasional.

Companies are dealing with restructures, role eliminations, burnout, and quiet disengagement at scale. At the same time, many employees do not want another pep talk. They want tools. They want a private, practical way to process disruption without having to perform vulnerability in public.

Reset Protocol™ specifically addresses two large populations most corporate transition programs do not reach: the voluntary-quit cohort who walked away from the road they were on without yet knowing what road they actually wanted, and the still-employed-but-misaligned cohort — high performers showing the early-warning signs of the next round of quits. Reaching them now, with Reset Protocol™ in hand, is the difference between proactive retention and reactive separation.

Reset Protocol™ works in corporate environments because it is structured, practical, and self-directed. It can be used as a stabilizing resource for employees navigating career transition and identity shock. It can be used as a retention tool for high performers who are burning out quietly and beginning to drift. It can be used in leadership development settings to improve self-awareness, decision quality, and alignment between work and values.

It also pairs cleanly with coaching programs, mentorship programs, and offsites as a structured reflection system that respects privacy while still producing tangible clarity and action. And for organizations that want an even more “hands-on” implementation layer, the Reset Protocol Workbook™ adds guided space for employees to translate insights into decisions and next steps without requiring group disclosure.

Most importantly, this is a book people can actually use without needing a perfect schedule or a perfect emotional state. That realism is what creates adoption. And adoption is what creates results.

A Sample Question

Here’s the flavor of what you’ll find in the 108:

Question 27: Five years from now, what will feel more like home — the road you are currently walking, or the Road Most Desired you have not yet allowed yourself to name?

Each question is designed to open a door you’ve been walking past for years.

Join the Reset Protocol™ Advance Reader Team

Before a book is released publicly, there is a small window where it can still become stronger.

The Advance Reader Team is a select group of early readers — ART Members — who receive the manuscript before publication and offer thoughtful, real-world feedback. Their insights help refine clarity, strengthen structure, and ensure the final version is genuinely useful for the people who will rely on it during their own reset.

If you would like to:

Read the book before publication
Offer honest feedback on what resonates and what needs tightening
Help catch rough spots or confusing sections
Receive the final ebook free on launch day
Optionally have your name included in the acknowledgments

…you are warmly invited to apply.

Advance Reader Team Members are the first people I think about when revising. Your feedback does not just improve the book — it improves the experience of the person who will open it during a difficult season and quietly hope it helps.

Apply to join the Reset Protocol™ Advance Reader Team

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Thanks,

Robert

Robert Lee Goodman, MBA
CEO and Publisher, Good-Man LLC
Founder and Author, Five Year Life™ Series
44X Founder · Rocket Scientist ·
33K Compound Knowledgist™ ·
Chief Dragonslayer™ – Business & Love ·
Novelist Who Successfully Found His Heroine™

PS: If you are a corporate buyer, HR leader, coach, or program director interested in bulk purchase or organizational use, contact: SpecialSales@FiveYearLife.com

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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.

For more information: FiveYearLife.com/YourLastPaycheck

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. Not the familiar path, but the one most aligned with what you actually want.

Reset Protocol™ is not about blowing up your life; it’s about realignment — done deliberately, honestly, and with realistic compassion. It’s how you move beyond the road less traveled and step onto the road most desired.

For more information: FiveYearLife.com/ResetProtocol

Some people prefer to read and reflect. Others need to engage, write, and move. This Workbook is built for action.

The Reset Protocol Workbook™ transforms insight into execution. It follows the same 108 carefully sequenced questions, but provides structured space to capture your answers, clarify your thinking, and turn reflection into forward momentum.

This is where your Reset Protocol becomes your own — not just something you understand, but something you actively work through, decision by decision.

Whether you use it alongside the main book or on its own, the purpose is the same: to move you from awareness into alignment, and from alignment into action.

For more information: FiveYearLife.com/ResetProtocolWorkbook

“I had 1,200 first dates” sounds like a gimmick. It wasn’t. It was the byproduct of an accidental experiment that started with a simple website: NovelistSeeksHeroine.com.

That page described the 28 traits I believed mattered most for long-term compatibility. More than 15,000 women responded, convinced they matched. What followed was a decade-long journey — roughly 1,200 first dates, over 300 second dates, and a hard-earned education in the difference between attraction, projection, and true alignment.

Out of those 15,000, out of those 1,200 first dates, there was one — and only one — woman I asked to marry me. She said yes. That was more than two decades ago… and we’re still happily together and counting.

But this book isn’t about my story. It’s about yours.

Efficient Love™ shows you how to avoid years of unnecessary detours, identify real compatibility earlier, and find the person who is right for you — where you also happen to be right for them.

It distills everything learned from that journey — including the Three Lists — into a practical, repeatable approach you can apply immediately to your own search.

For more information: FiveYearLife.com/EfficientLove

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Call it loneliness, if you want, though that word barely captures the full weight of it, because what is actually being felt is not simply the absence of company, but the absence of being truly known, truly understood, and truly connected in ways that feel real, dependable, and impossible to fake, whether in romantic love, friendship, family, or the quieter forms of human connection that give life its meaning.

Four founders come together around that recognition, not because they believe they have all the answers, but because they share the conviction that this epidemic is neither small nor inevitable, and that if something could be understood at a deeper level, perhaps it could be changed, not merely for a few fortunate people, but in a way that might genuinely make the world a better place.

What draws them forward is , and at the beginning it still looks, at least from a distance, like a startup story, a few brilliant, driven people building something ambitious and hopeful in the face of a problem that seems too large for any small company to solve.

Then something begins to shift, though not in any clean or predictable way, and not in any form the founders would have recognized at first for what it really was, because whatever they had touched was no longer simply shaping what people said to one another, but the space beneath what they said, where hesitation, desire, restraint, and truth normally remain guarded, filtered, and quietly distorted.

Because when two people connect through , the distance between what is felt and what is revealed does not gradually close the way it usually does, but instead begins to collapse, giving way to a form of shared awareness that feels at once intoxicating, disorienting, and impossible to resist.

It does not feel reckless. It does not feel confused. It feels certain in a way that is almost unnerving, because the usual space people rely on to stay in control seems to dissolve almost immediately, leaving behind the unmistakable sense that something deeper has already recognized what neither of them has yet spoken aloud.

Time does not disappear. It accelerates until hesitation has no place to live, until desire and certainty arrive together, and what would have taken months becomes something neither of them can delay, and neither of them would ever choose to.

This is not the familiar courtship minuet people have come to expect, not the cautious circling, not the incremental testing of boundaries. It is something else entirely, a different kind of dance, where recognition arrives first, where alignment follows immediately, and where passion does not wander aimlessly but locks into place with a precision that feels both overwhelming and inevitable.

Desire is unmistakably part of it, but it does not stand alone, because what rises with it is something far more disarming, a sense of alignment so complete that the usual friction is simply not there, no second-guessing, no misread signals, no quiet holding back that people are used to carrying even in their most intimate moments.

Here, there is to reinterpret, to correct, and almost no place left for the subtle evasions that normally prevent passion from becoming what it was always capable of becoming.

What unfolds in that space is not merely erotic, though it is undeniably that, and not merely romantic, though it is deeply that as well. It is the experience of two people entering a form of connection where closeness is no longer negotiated, but revealed, where desire and certainty rise together, and where intimacy carries a depth that feels both intensely physical and profoundly understood at the same time.

Within that convergence, moments begin to emerge in which , where sensation deepens into meaning, and where the line between emotional connection and physical experience becomes impossible to separate.

And yet what begins here is not confined to romance, because the same underlying shift begins to extend into , , and , suggesting that what is being touched is not merely a better way for people to fall in love, but a deeper way for human beings to recognize, understand, and relate to one another across nearly every meaningful dimension of life.

What began as an attempt to address a global epidemic affecting hundreds of millions, and likely billions, starts to reveal implications far beyond anything the founders imagined, becoming less a product and more the early edge of a black swan event, one capable of producing outcomes no one can fully model and no existing system of control can comfortably absorb.

And that is when the attention shifts, because something like this will never be left alone once outside forces begin to grasp even fragments of what may be possible.

What follows is no longer simply a question of whether the founders can protect what they have built, but whether what they have touched can remain what it was meant to be once others begin trying to control, redirect, weaponize, or own it.

Especially once it becomes clear that beneath the emotional, romantic, and philosophical implications there may also be elements of that extend beyond fiction.

That realization was never part of the original plan, and yet somewhere in the process of developing this story, it became impossible to ignore the possibility that what was being described might represent something more tangible, something that could, under the right conditions, constitute , with the specific details intentionally withheld for reasons that should be self-evident.

This is not just a story. It is a partially redacted case file. And whatever is happening inside it has already begun.

For more information: FiveYearLife.com/SNSPreview

Reset Protocol™ Beyond The Road Less Traveled: The Road Most Desired™