Monthly Archives: December 2015

Family, Microsoft, Pain Drives Change, Personal Growth

Thank You Microsoft….and Hello!

Thank You Microsoft and Hello!

After 5 incredible months off I’m back at Microsoft in a job that was created for me.  I am overwhelmed with how incredible the time off was and how blessed I am to be back at Microsoft. If you don’t have time to read the blog here are the highlights of my time off:

  • I enjoyed my family
  • I was head coach of my son’s junior football team (6-7 year-olds)
  • I joined a startup and quickly realized it wasn’t going to work
  • I wrote my first book-Pain Drives Change-in 45 days!
  • I learned a TON
  • I vacationed in Eastern Washington, the Oregon Coast and San Juan Islands
  • I got extreme clarity on my vision for the second half of my life
  • I once again realized how incredible Microsoft is as a company and was blessed to be re-hired after my first interview loop!

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Pain Drives Change

I just finished my final edits for my book “Pain Drives Change”

Wow!

Editing is much harder than I ever imagined.  It took me longer to edit my book “Pain Drives Change” than it did to write it!

But it needed to be edited.  My first draft was written stream of consciousness.  My editor then took my stream of consciousness writing and cleaned it up significantly.  I then took his edits and modified some of the content.

It turns out that I didn’t know the full story when I wrote the original version-I learned more in the process of talking with my mom and dad while they each wrote their letters that are included in the book.

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