A Search For (My) Life

Last night, I had a beer with Curt Rosengren, whom I met originally over a year ago, and who was one of the primary people who first encouraged me to start blogging. Curt calls himself a “Passion Catalyst” and has been self-employed as a career coach for quite some time now. When I last met him, I was still slaving away at Microsoft and wishing of day’s like today, where I am at home working on my goals, and making it the primary focus of my day. It was great to see Curt again, and show him how far I’ve progressed since we last met, and how much closer I am to living my ideal life.

Curt has recently started making the move from a personal career coach to a professional speaker so that he can spread his message to more people in a shorter amount of time. Curt writes for Worthwhile Magazine, and has graciously offered to put me in touch with the editors Kevin Salwen and Anita Sharpe, both hotshots from the Wall Street Journal who broke off a few years ago to start their magazine.

Curt has some great ideas about my career path, and I look forward to keeping in touch with him. I gave him a short demonstration on memory, and the rundown on what I teach when I speak professionally. I also told him of Niels and my idea to start a magazine. Niels has already blogged about it, but we are dubbing it “The Social Man Magazine” for now, and are working on the business plan. A synopsis of the idea will arrive shortly.

In other news, I was happy to arrive home from Diabetes camp (where I was volunteering for the last week) to find a packet from Dr. Ken Higbee with all his research articles on memory and mnemonics. I am very grateful to him for taking the time to send me information. I look forward on incorporating this research backing into my speech.