Why I wrote The Circle Blueprint

I was a weird kid.  When I was in elementary school I liked to visit my adult neighbors and learn about their life.  Pretty strange, huh?  For some reason I cared about people and wanted to understand them better.

That interest has never gone away.  Perhaps it is my love for people that drew me to become a minster, then a therapist and finally a coach.  One thing I know is true.  I really love what I do every day.  I make my living doing that which I love; conversing with people about how they can make their life, their relationships and their work more meaningful and successful.

I must be pretty good at it because I have been successful beyond my imagination.  I make plenty of money.  I have an amazing marriage, great kids and really good friends.  I am amazingly blessed.

I tell you this because it is the beginning of the story about The Circle Blueprint.  My good friend and coauthor, Greg Miller, had previously been someone whom I had coached.  We spent many hours talking about his life and business.  I remember one day at Harvard University where he was completing an executive MBA program, he brought up the idea of writing a book about all that I had learned about helping people create an effective life.

I wasn’t too keen on the idea.  I have no confidence that I am a writer and was already pretty busy in my work.  A few years later he brought up the idea again and, this time, he wouldn’t let it go.  So, he hounded me to write and we set out to write a book together.  The project morphed a few times and ended up with a book, The Circle Blueprint, a free online assessment that Greg constructed (that was way over my head) and four workbooks that go along with the content of the book.

I wouldn’t have done all of this work without Greg’s persistent push.  But, now that I have it, I see the possibilities that he saw and I missed.  I can now take my ideas to hundreds of people.  I can now sit on the front porch of people I don’t know and help them to make their lives better.  I invite you to pick up a copy and give it a read.  It is short and easy to understand.  Who knows, you might come across an idea that transforms your life.