Welcome to Five Year Life

Five Year Life – Rebuild Your Life with Clarity, Direction, and a Proven Path Forward

When your world changes — by choice or by force — the Five Year Life™ series gives you the structure, guidance, and confidence to design the next five years of your life with purpose and precision.

WHAT FIVE YEAR LIFE™ IS REALLY ABOUT

Over the past several years, I’ve watched something shift — quietly at first, then unmistakably. My inbox filled with messages from past clients, founders I had mentored decades earlier, professionals in every industry, and even acquaintances I hadn’t spoken with in years.

They all said some version of the same thing:

“My job is gone.”
“My industry is shrinking.”
“AI just eliminated half our department.”
“I don’t know what to do next.”

These weren’t isolated stories. They were early warning signals of a massive, global disruption — one affecting millions. Entire career paths evaporated. Stable companies collapsed. The rules people had built their lives around no longer applied.

For more than forty years, I’ve mentored thousands of individuals, entrepreneurs, CEOs, and founders — through crises, reinventions, relationship upheavals, financial resets, and the quiet but devastating pain of feeling lost in their own lives. But never — not once — have I seen this many people asking for help at the same time.

That overwhelming wave of need is what gave birth to the Five Year Life™ series.

These books are not theoretical. They are not recycled advice. They are the structured, real-world frameworks I’ve used to help people stabilize, rethink their direction, and rebuild their lives during the most disorienting chapters they’ve ever faced.

Each book addresses a different kind of reset:

  • Reset Protocol™ — your internal alignment

  • Your Last Paycheck™ — your career, income, and survival in the AI era

  • Efficient Love™ — your relationships and long-term compatibility

  • (and more to come)

But they share one mission:

To help you understand where your life is now — and to give you the structure to design the next five years with confidence and clarity.

This is not motivation.
This is not positive thinking.
This is architecture — for your life.

A method that grows with you, adapts to you, and helps you make grounded decisions even when everything around you feels uncertain.

Five Year Life™ exists because people everywhere are being forced into reinvention.
You deserve a framework to guide you through it.

FEATURED BOOKS

⭐ RESET PROTOCOL™

A Structured Method for Resetting Your Life In Five Focused Years

There comes a point in nearly every life when the path you’ve been walking no longer feels like the path you’re meant to continue. You feel the misalignment in small ways at first — a heaviness in the morning, a quiet resistance to your own routines, a sense that something essential is out of place. And eventually, the truth becomes hard to deny: your life needs a reset.

Reset Protocol™ exists for exactly that moment.

This book helps you understand what misalignment really is, why it happens, and how to rebuild your life with clarity instead of confusion. It guides you through 108 deeply reflective questions designed to reveal patterns you’ve lived with for years, expose the quiet truths you’ve been avoiding, and help you see your life with the kind of honesty that leads to transformation.

We also walk you through the Five-Year Lens™ — a structured, future-focused method that helps you understand not just where you are, but where you’re going, and why the next five years of your life deserve more intention than they’ve ever received.

If you feel stuck, overwhelmed, restless, or quietly unhappy — this book was written for you.

For More Information → Reset Protocol™

⭐ YOUR LAST PAYCHECK™

Surviving Job Loss, Reinvention, and the AI Economy

Job loss is not just a financial event — it’s an emotional collapse, a blow to identity, and a rupture in your sense of stability. And in today’s economy, it takes six months, twelve months, or even longer for many people to find another stable role.

During that time, people often burn through savings, lose confidence, and make decisions driven by panic rather than strategy.

Your Last Paycheck™ exists to prevent that spiral.

The first half of the book gives you a step-by-step survival plan for the crucial early weeks and months. What to do immediately. What documents to secure before access is cut off. How to stabilize your finances. How to prevent emotional collapse. And how to keep yourself grounded when uncertainty becomes your constant companion.

The second half gives you something entirely different:
a career blueprint for the new AI economy.

You’ll learn:

  • How to become AI-competent in your current profession

  • How to transition into emerging AI-enabled fields

  • How to identify the 25+ roles that will dominate the next decade

  • How to evaluate your earning potential in the new landscape

  • How to avoid career paths that are quietly disappearing

This book helps you survive today while giving you a structured roadmap for the future the job market is actually heading toward — not the one we grew up expecting.

For More Information → Your Last Paycheck™

⭐ EFFICIENT LOVE™

Coming Soon — I Had 1,200 First Dates So You Don’t Have To™

Before dating apps, before matchmaking algorithms, and before the internet became part of everyone’s daily life, Robert tried something bold — something almost unheard of at the time.

He created a personal webpage titled “Novelist Seeks Heroine™.”

On it, he listed 28 attributes he believed defined long-term compatibility. Not superficial traits, but the qualities needed for a stable, emotionally aligned relationship built to last.

He expected a few curious visitors and maybe a handful of replies.

Instead, something remarkable happened.

The page went viral in the earliest era of the web.
It received over two million visitors, which was an extraordinary number back then.
More than 15,000 women responded to the posting saying they were the perfect Heroine for his Quest.
From those responses, and others, came 1,200 first dates — a 10 year-long journey into human behavior, emotional readiness, and the psychology of compatibility.

And out of those 15,000 inquiries and 1,200 dates…
There was exactly one woman he asked to marry him.

One.

She said yes.
That was more than two decades ago — and still happily counting.

Efficient Love™ is the book born from that journey — not a dating memoir, not a conquest story, but a guide to understanding compatibility, alignment, decision-making, emotional clarity, and the patterns that determine whether a relationship deepens… or quietly collapses over time.

If you’ve ever wondered whether there is a more efficient, less painful way to find someone who truly fits your life, this book will give you exactly that.

Learn More →

ADVANCED READER COMMUNITY (ARC)

The Five Year Life™ Advanced Reader Community is a group of people who want to be part of something meaningful — helping two major books reach the people who need them most.

ARC readers receive:

  • Early-access PDFs of each book

  • Updates as chapters evolve

  • Behind-the-scenes commentary from Robert

  • A free final ebook on launch day

  • Acknowledgment inside the published book (optional)

But most importantly, ARC members help in two critical ways:

1. Posting an honest review on Amazon on launch day

This single action is the lifeblood of book momentum. Early reviews tell Amazon’s algorithms that this book matters — and that it deserves to be shown to more people.

2. Offering helpful editorial notes

ARC members may share:

  • Typos

  • Suggestions

  • Clarifications

  • Emotional reactions

  • Structural or pacing notes

  • Alerts if something feels confusing or repetitive

You don’t need to be a writer to help.
You just need to care about guiding others.

Who should join the ARC?

  • Anyone going through a life reset

  • Anyone facing job loss, fear, or uncertainty

  • Anyone supporting a spouse, child, friend, or colleague in crisis

  • Anyone who wants to help spread tools that genuinely help people rebuild

This isn’t just early access — it’s participation in a mission.

Join the ARC →

ABOUT THE AUTHOR (ELEVATOR PITCH)

Robert Lee Goodman, MBA, has spent more than three decades working directly with thousands of startup founders, CEOs, professionals, and entrepreneurs across more than 200 industries, helping them overcome the problems they couldn’t afford to get wrong.

His work has spanned 49 states and over 70 countries.

In addition to launching 44 companies of his own and raising $110 million (in today’s dollars) from 1,342 investors, Robert became known for something far more personal: the ability to help people regain clarity when their lives were falling apart.

His mentoring has guided people through:

  • Job loss

  • Career reinvention

  • Personal and financial collapse

  • Marriage strain and divorce

  • Relationship misalignment

  • The overwhelming uncertainty caused by AI disruption

  • The fear of starting over at any age

Robert believes that most people are not broken — they are simply misaligned. And once they understand why, they can rebuild their lives with far more strength and direction than they had before.

Full Author Bio →

⭐ SPECIAL SALES — BULK & CORPORATE ORDERS

Organizations today face a workforce in transition. Employees are overwhelmed by uncertainty, career disruption, declining morale, and the impact of rapid AI adoption.

The Five Year Life™ series offers companies, universities, nonprofits, and workforce-development organizations tools that genuinely support people through major life challenges.

Who Uses Our Books for Bulk Orders?

  • Career transition programs

  • HR departments

  • Workforce retraining initiatives

  • Nonprofits supporting job seekers

  • Counseling centers

  • University career services

  • Outplacement services

  • Corporate wellness programs

Why Organizations Choose These Books

Reset Protocol™ helps readers realign their personal lives, reduce confusion, and rebuild internal clarity.
Your Last Paycheck™ provides a practical survival guide and an AI-focused career blueprint for those facing layoffs or industry disruption.

These books offer structure, understanding, and actionable tools that help people move forward with confidence.

Bulk Pricing & Customization

Discounted bulk rates are available for organizations wishing to provide these resources at scale. Branding customization may also be possible depending on volume and timing.

Bulk Orders & Pricing →

⭐ CONTACT

Thank you for your interest in the Five Year Life™ series.

At this time, I’m unable to respond to requests for personal counseling, one-on-one emotional guidance, or individualized life advice. I’m not a therapist or counselor, and I cannot offer those services.

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If you are interested in paid strategic consultations related to career transitions, entrepreneurship, decision-architecture, or structured five-year planning, you’re welcome to mention that in your inquiry. I occasionally take on a very small number of consulting clients when time allows.

For those who want to support this work in a more meaningful way — helping the books reach the people who need them most — consider joining our Advanced Reader Community:

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ARC members aren’t just early readers — they’re part of a mission to help people rebuild their lives with clarity and purpose.