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listen, proclaiming that his competitor was wrong about the future, instead of focusing on changing his own business model and services to remain a player in the game. Donald was living in a coma. His strategy hadn’t changed in years even though his clients were adapting to new trends and changes in the marketplace. He actually sent out letters saying that his competitor was leading its clients down a path that would destroy their businesses if they followed its advice. Donald’s ego wouldn’t allow him to get out of his own way. Instead of listening to what he had to say, Donald’s clients began canceling their contracts and moving their business to his competitor.

The moral of this story is, you either adapt or die. It’s one of the simplest rules of business. Failing to address the issues and make the necessary changes is a recipe for disaster. Donald found that out the hard way. The irony here is that instead of changing his approach to accommodate the times, he fired me as his coach, placing me at the top of his blame list for pointing out the obvious. Unfortunately, it’s only a matter of time before his business will cease to exist. His stubbornness and failure to acknowledge his own resistance to change will be the reason he’ll be forced into an early retirement.

I admit that I had been living in a big coma when I was working for MF. I often think back to those years as my “coma2.” I knew I had been terribly unhappy and dissatisfied with my position in MF’s company, but I kept right on with my daily routine pretending everything was great—accepting mediocrity and leading others to believe that what they saw in me was genuine and sincere. When I told MF how I felt, his suggestion was to get away for a few weeks, think it over, take a breather. What he was really saying to me was “Get over it!”

Martin Luther King once said, “The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.” So, despite MF’s efforts to get me to reconsider, I had made up my mind to resign. Nothing could stop me because I had created a clear vision for what I wanted and where I was headed even if I had no clue how I was going to get there. My decision to leave MF’s company woke me from my active coma. For the first time in years, I was awake, aware, and full of hope and fear. The latter, you will find out, can sometimes be a good thing.

You might be reading this and thinking, Well, I’m not in a coma. That may be true, but consider that as of July 2008, there were more than 123 million Americans who were either struggling or suffering, partly, but not entirely due to the current economic crisis. As things progressively get worse, that number continues to skyrocket, eclipsing the number of thriving Americans month after month.

These are the same people who are spending billions of dollars on medication to try to feel better. They’ve flatlined, they’re shut down and repressed and avoid the truth, and they are living with this thought: Someday it will get better. They’re in an active coma, and it is time for them to wake up.

According to a new Centers for Disease Control (CDC) report, antidepressants are America’s most prescribed drugs, more than meds for high blood pressure, high cholesterol, or asthma. The report claims that prescriptions for antidepressants rose 48 percent between 1995 and 2002, and accounted for 118 million of the 2.4 billion drugs prescribed in 2005.

What if I told you I can help these people shift from struggling to thriving in a matter of weeks without using antidepressants to help them feel better about themselves—and before their circumstances spiral so far out of control that they become prisoners of their own lives?

This book is not called “Some Aspect of Your Life, If It’s Convenient and Happens to Miraculously Fall into Place By Design.” It’s about your whole life. We’ve got to look at the whole picture. And to do that, we need to examine all of the pieces of the puzzle. Let’s get started.

As part of our process together,