Our book, Carve Your Own Road officially launches tomorrow!  I’m very excited that this day is here and it’s wonderful to see something I envisioned become a real thing.  Career Press, our publisher sent us a box with 40 books a few weeks ago.  I opened the box and there they were! It took a while for it to sink in that the thing I had worked on and dreamed about for over two years was actually a reality.

When we took this project on we didn’t have a publisher, but I knew somehow that it would get published some day.  We invested our own money and traveled around the country to interview people for the book because I felt like this story needed to be told.  Our first round with publishers didn’t work out, so after our travels and interviews I revised the book proposal and we sent it out to publishers for a second round.  I have to admit that I was a bit frustrated, but was still undeterred.  I really wanted to the book to be published last year, but it seems to me that the timing for the book coming out now is perfect.

My hope is that this book will help and inspire many of the people who find themselves in transition right now, as well as those who are worried about their futures.  I think that now is the perfect time to put a plan together for what you want for your future, even and especially, if you have to take a job in the interim that isn’t exactly what you want to do.

I see many people who year after year don’t take the time get clarity about what they want and they end up moving to another company continually seeking greener grass, only to find that the grass isn’t greener…it’s just different grass.  You won’t find happiness and purpose in your job or your company, that is fleeting.  Management teams come and go, mergers happen, layoffs happen…. You must find it within yourself and take it with you wherever you go.  When you do that, you are much more in control and your experience is completely different no matter where you are.

This book is truly about working and living on your own terms.  There’s no magic pill unfortunately but you can do it with intentional planning.  Small steps every day towards what you want build momentum and over time you will find yourself living and working in the way you intended.