Do You Really Need
A Blueprint For Success?

If you’ve ever watched a house under construction, you know the architects and the builders frequently hunch over a huge sheet of paper called a blueprint. As they unroll it, you see that it is a network of precisely drawn lines.

This plan is a blueprint for success because the blue lines on the white sheet translate a clear idea into a beautiful home, and this well-designed home now becomes the place where the new home owners weave the story of their lives.

If the builders didn’t have their blueprint for success, they could still fashion a house but it would take longer to build, cost more than anticipated, and ultimately be less than pleasing.

Similarly, if you were to design your life as if it were a blueprint for success, the life you create would be much more satisfying. It would, in fact, be the life of your dreams.

Unfortunately, you, like most people, are more likely to have built your life without a plan, and the results, like a house built on rough calculations, have not been enjoyable.

You will need a blueprint for success, if you’ve decided that it’s time to step out of a life of quiet desperation, time to step out of an accidental life, and time to step out of making do with less than you deserve.

When you reach out for new life, then you’re ready to design an intentional life, one filled with purpose, vivacity, and joy, one teeming with possibilities, one bursting at the seams with promise.

One day, you unequivocally know it’s time to rethink the course of your life. You know the day when a wake up call shows up like an uninvited stranger. It’s something that you neither comprehend nor control, that has been dormant so long, it has almost been forgotten and that has been repressed so long, it was long thought dead.

On the day you receive this wake up call nothing in your life makes sense anymore.

Perhaps you feel sad and lonely because your spouse or your children, your lover or your friends, your family or relatives are no longer with you.

Perhaps you feel enraged and humiliated because you‘ve just been dismissed from your job despite years of loyal service.

Perhaps you feel isolated and frightened because your health is now critical…and standing before your doctor shaking his head mournfully, you dread his next words.

Whatever the shocking event, it forces you to step out of your habitual beliefs and to look at how you have lived in the world.

Suddenly you find yourself clinging to a pocketful of hallowed memories of the few times when you were happy, hanging to a desperate instinct to act in a decisive manner, or adhering to an old story about why things never worked out for you.

You find yourself staring uncomprehending at your life, longing for a new way, and as you do, you discover the forgotten depth of your being.

Unexpectedly, a mysterious thought leaps out to express itself. It pushes past years of repression and past years of excuses. It over-reaches all your resistance and with a voice that will not be denied it cries out its question.

Why have you let years pass and still not dared to follow any of your dreams?

Back when you were a child, you dreamed of a full, rich, and happy life ahead. You acted out various roles and themes in your garden about who you would be and what you would do when you grew up. You fantasized with your playmates about the blossoming years ahead of you. And you pretended to have all the things that you really wanted in life.

Yet now all you remember are the accidents that took you to the wrong places to be with the wrong people to do the wrong things.

But, I’m here to tell you that it’s never too late to start achieving success, never too late to start believing in yourself, and never too late to revisit your dreams. In short, it’s never too late to be who you might have been.

And it all starts with a blueprint, a blueprint for success.

Change happens when you begin to think different.

Yes, you can accomplish, bless, conquer, discover and enjoy your fondest wish for yourself—because you're a living miracle, biologically hard-wired to live a happy, successful, and fulfilling life.

In my own life, two incidents revealed that the best possible life is one charged with the joy of purpose.

In Ventura, California, I remember sitting at the end of a wharf, my back tanning to a crisp gold in the noonday sun, my feet dangling in the air. The ocean rose and fell gently as if breathing and a cool breeze caressed my naked shoulders. In the distance, children laughed as they played on the beach. This was the day after I'd finally graduated with my master’s degree in Psychology and on this day my future finally looked as bold, broad, and beautiful as the ocean that flowed until it merged into the horizon.

Shortly after that delicious afternoon, on that same dock, I remember a spiritual moment—when I finally understood something about life. Majestically, the insight arose, twisting and turning, soaring, defying gravity, brilliant in the sun. And, of course, I was never the same again. I understood something simple, yet elegant. All of human experience is about progressively learning how to be wiser and kinder. It's all about finding your purpose, living it with passion, and allowing it to ennoble your mind and heart.

Those two experiences pushed me to dream bigger than I had ever dreamed before. This website is an extension, decades later, of that same dream.

It is my sincere hope that you can take away from this website ideas you can use to start designing your blueprint for success.