Life-Changing Event

One day, at a major client in Chicago, I was engaged in my business process re-engineering when I looked over to a table next to me and there was a magazine open, and it was actually an image of this woman kind of living her own dream. And it looked like, obviously her passion was unparalleled. I mean, she was actually scaling a mountain, right? There was, if she fell, it was like a thousand-foot fall. And I thought to myself, am I there? Is what I'm doing right now compelling me? Is it calling me? Is it a soulful call? And I realized that the answer was no. And that was despite the fact that I had worked my whole early life. I was that straight-A kid. I was the president of the student council. I did all the things I was supposed to do to arrive at where I actually was. I was a senior consultant now. I was highly respected. I was traveling all over the world consulting with Fortune 500 companies as to how they should do this or that. And the answer was no. And so I made a decision and I jumped ship with the intention that I was going to give myself one year to dabble in three potential careers that called to me.