Life Coaching
I started down a path of unbinding my life five years before we ever made any changes. My journey of discerning a different approach to life started with conversations with the girl who cut my hair. She shared about her and her husband’s quest to simplify their lives and to live life on their own terms. Over time, they lived in the area part time where she would take on clients, and they traveled and lived the rest of the time in a converted bus. I had never contemplated the game of life other than the one-size-fits-all approach. I was mind blown there was a way to live with such freedom and flexibility AND live out life according to one’s own dreams and values.
A few years later, I met with a life coach for the first time and began rediscovering my own dreams. (Spoiler Alert—Although fulltime RV life provided the freedom and flexibility I just couldn’t shake, it wasn’t on the table for us!) Opal and I began having discussions similar to the ones we had when we were dating—we talked about what we wanted, what we envisioned, and how we could make that life a reality. We got clear on all the things we wanted and as importantly, on all the things we no longer wanted. We mapped out our values and put a stake in the ground to live out those values.
I felt like we had been playing a game, and I wanted more than anything to just flip over the game board and make all the pieces go flying! I didn’t want to make another move, and I didn’t want to simply rearrange the pieces. I wanted to flip over our game of life and start something completely different.
Through our conversations, we realized we wanted a simpler life, and we wanted time with each other and time with our family. We refused to wait until retirement to feel like we would have those choices. We wanted to align our choices to our values, and we wanted to do it NOW!
In 2020, we left suburban Austin to live in a historic home in the mountains of Western North Carolina. As a Certified Professional Coach, I work remotely part time and spend the rest of my time pouring into my family, myself, and my community.
If you’re contemplating a bold, audacious move—whether that may be leaving a career, prioritizing time with your spouse or children, or flipping your gameboard and starting all over—and you don’t know where to start or how to do it, I’m your guy! I am here to help others rediscover their dreams for themselves and for their families and to chart a path towards living out those dreams.
