I’ve been waiting my whole life……for this one night

You may be noticing something different about my MOXY today. Got a bit of a facelift. Kept a lot of the essentials, like the red shoes, and got rid of distracting stuff like the FLASH layout. Hope you like it.

But that’s not all. I told you before that I was working on a little something-something for you. Well, it’s finally ready, thanks to the hard work of people like Erica Garcia, Ben Johnson, and Leah Creates. (Yes, I am so demanding that it took 3 people to get what I wanted. Be afraid, be very afraid.)

I started writing The Way Forward last year, after yet another meeting with a recent college graduate who was bemoaning the mind-numbingly boring entry level job she had scored immediately after graduation. I’ll never forget the look on her face when she said to me: “I can literally feel myself getting dumber with every piece of data I enter.” I came back to my office and just started writing; I wrote everything I had said to her, everything I still wanted to say, everything I wished I’d said, to her and to so many others. My passion for all of you poured out into those pages, and many of those words and ideas later showed up as blog posts here at TMP. We’ve taken a bunch of those concepts and teachings and bundled them into this e-book, (LOOK!!! Over there on the right!) and the result is something I think you’re really going to like and more than that, hopefully use and feel encouraged by. Click on the link to the right and we’ll send it to you for free.

WHAT I DON’T WANT

I don’t want you to send it to everyone you know. Please don’t talk about it like it’s an obsession you can’t shake whenever you’re with your friends who haven’t read it. Don’t be one of those annoying product evangelists who can’t shut up about something, even when it’s clear that the people you’re talking to don’t care about it at all.

WHAT I DO WANT

I do want you to be selective. Pass it on to the people you think it would really help. Don’t be smug or self-righteous. Tell them what (if anything) this has done for you, how it’s shown you some new things to try or perspectives to consider. Then ask them to read it and to tell you what they think. If they like it, by all means encourage them to pass it on to their friends. Same suggestions apply.

THE BOTTOM LINE

Let me be clear. If you I send you my stuff, I have a relationship with you. I am not willing to sacrifice that relationship for any form of popularity or other compensation. Putting all this material together was truly a labor of love; my best attempts to distill everything I’ve ever said to you that would matter eternally. I sure hope it does that.

I hope it helps you lead your life.