Edward Moore
Edward and his wife of 14 years live in central Pennsylvania. After both having successful careers in Government, they left the fast pace of Washington, DC and started a small, on-line antique shop in 2005.
In 2010, Edward had a heart attack, and it took almost a year of recovery before he could begin working again. With their savings gone, he took a job in a big box store to rebuild their savings and cover medical expenses not being met by their on-line shop. Feeling at a cross-roads of how to proceed with his life, he discovered the focus course and is currently using the results to restructure his priorities and goals in order to bring greater meaning to his life.
Here’s what Edward wrote in to say about The Focus Course:
The Focus Course paid for itself several times over. Not only in the books I didn’t have buy and then wade through to glean a nugget of wisdom, but in the time you took to do so in making the course. Awesome stuff!
The course really clicked with me. Basically, a lot of systems out there (like Stephen Covey) use parts of what you put together, but none of them put it all together in any meaningful way for me before.
Working in the stages you put together allowed me to start seeing that several of my roles in life could have similar underlying goals. For example, if I want to connect with nature as a spiritual goal, spend time with my wife, and be more active then connecting all of that together into nature walks with my wife becomes one task that serves me in multiple areas. This is so much better than trying to come up with separate ideas for each one.
Conversely, a lot of the books on habits I’ve read usually substitute a new habit for a habit you want to discard. Rarely do they help me connect those habits with any of my own goals in any meaningful way.
Books on goals may help you distill your dreams/goals into a more refined idea by asking why and drilling down into the real reason you want it, but once you have that why, they leave you with a list of possibly more refined ideas, without much of a step-by-step path to work to get there. The Focus Course helped me with the goals but also with the step-by-step path. In the end, I like feeling like I have what Covey described as a ‘true north’ to get me back on track in the areas of my life that matter. That focus has been missing for me for a while.
Your expertise in distilling all the materials that are out there, the quality of the website, the videos, etc., all adds so much more on top of the course content itself that it’s kind of mind-boggling.
Not to mention that, it really is a smartly put together plan that prompts actions and not just reflections. For anyone willing to invest a bit of effort, you are providing a road-map that is clear to follow and easy to implement.
