The Historic Moment That Won’t Wait: Five Advance Reader Teams Are Open

Something I’ve been building for almost two years starts today.

I’m opening Advance Reader Teams for three books I’m releasing in the next thirty days — Your Last Paycheck™, Reset Protocol™, and Reset Protocol™ Workbook. Team Members get the full pre-publication manuscript free, and the ask in return is intentionally small.

What’s happening right now — AI disruption colliding with sustained inflation and the largest voluntary and involuntary workforce realignment in modern memory — is, I believe, going to dwarf every disruption I’ve lived through across 45 years of founding companies and mentoring thousands of people one-on-one. This isn’t only an American story. It’s unfolding across the developed world. I’m releasing all three books within the next thirty days, not on a commercially optimized schedule, because the moment will not wait.

📘 Your Last Paycheck™ — First, financial triage after the layoff to prepare you for the job search. Second, mapping your new personalized career path in the age of AI.

📗 Reset Protocol™ — Beyond the Road Less Traveled: The Road Most Desired™. 108 carefully crafted questions that help you name your Current Point A honestly and define your Most Desired Point B with strategic clarity.

📙 Reset Protocol™ Workbook — the same 108 questions, but every page is a doing page. Strategy defines the destination. Tactics move your feet.

Two more books are coming close behind: Efficient Love™ — I had 1,200 first dates so you don’t have to — publishes 30 days after the first three and is about 90% complete. Stark Naked Startup™, the first novel in the series, is about 80% complete. Advance Reader Teams for both are also now open.

Note: As of today, three books have full and complete manuscripts you can download right now. Your Last Paycheck, Reset Protocol, and Reset Protocol Workbook are all 99% complete and nearly ready for Launch Day. The 1% that is missing: Your input as an Advance Reader Team Member.

Regarding the other two books, Efficient Love is approximately 90% complete, and the novel Stark Naked Startup is approximately 80% complete. These last two books don’t have manuscripts ready to download yet. However, available Advance Reader slots are limited and filling up fast for these two books. So, if you’re interested, now is the time to reserve your slot by becoming an Advance Reader Team Member for Efficient Love and/or Stark Naked Startup.

I need Advance Reader Team members to make all 5 books better. You’re not just getting a free book. You’re helping these books reach millions of people who desperately need them right now.

And the ask is genuinely light. Just read two Action Plans in Your Last Paycheck. Or three questions in the Reset Protocol books. Or define your Profound, Profane, and DIDO Lists in Efficient Love.

Then tell Robert what worked and what didn’t. That’s it.

The manuscript is free. Yours to keep.

Pick the one — or two, or all five — that speaks to where you actually are right now. Up next: meet Joe, one of 40 million Americans laid off in the last 24 months, and see exactly what my book Your Last Paycheck did for him.

Join any or all at: https://fiveyearlife.com/arc/

PS — For the Fellow Authors Who Read This Far

If you’re a writer developing your own book, and you have a manuscript completed or even partially completed, I’d like to offer you something totally free. No upsells. No money whatsoever.

Triple Hat Critics™ – Join The Advance Reader Teams Now | Any or All Books | FiveYearLife.com/ARC — The Triple Hat Critics™ — A Virtual Manuscript Review By A Senior Editor, Literary Critic, and Marketing Director, Each With 30 Years Of Experience, Reviewing An Author’s Manuscript. Built By Robert Lee Goodman Over 18 Months For His Own Five Books. © FiveYearLife.Com

It’s a major tool I developed for myself that forces AI to behave itself and review my manuscripts — or even just individual completed chapters — from the perspectives of a 30-year senior book editor, a 30-year literary critic, and a 30-year book marketing VP. Hard-hitting, totally objective narrative analyses from all three different perspectives. I call it my virtual Triple Hat Critics™.

I don’t sell the Triple Hat Review. I don’t give away my proprietary prompt. I don’t offer anybody else any way to benefit from it. It’s what I built for myself over 18 months while writing my own five books.

The one exception is fellow authors who join an Advance Reader Team. As my thanks for reading at least some of my book and providing candid, specific feedback, I’ll personally run your manuscript through exactly the same rigors I use on my own drafts. Same prompt. Same three virtual experts. Delivered about a week after your feedback.

Your report is yours to share — publicly or privately — however you find useful.

→ Read the full explanation of the Triple Hat Critics™

The Triple Hat Critics™

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 — and equally for the millions still employed who see the writing on the wall.

Part One provides a calm, step-by-step financial triage plan for the critical early weeks: what to secure, what to protect, how to preserve both finances and emotional footing.

Part Two maps your new career path in the Age of AI — 100 AI job and career titles you've probably never heard of. No code required. You are not starting over. You are leveling up.

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

Stark Naked Startup™: A Novel – Book 1 — Loneliness Epidemic, Solved By An AI Startup. Sexual Intimacy and Desire, Uncontrollably Addictive. Unintended Consequences, Their Truth Algorithm Weaponized — And Every Government on Earth Their Enemy.™

It begins with a problem that has quietly grown into a worldwide epidemic, spreading across cultures, countries, and generations, affecting not just millions, but likely hundreds of millions and even billions of souls on this planet, often without being openly acknowledged because it hides so easily behind lives that appear complete from the outside.

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

The Historic Moment That Won’t Wait: Five Advance Reader Teams Are Open