I can still recall quietly slipping out of bed early Sunday mornings, and heading for the living room where I turned on the television. There I would sit on the floor, while my parents and brothers slept, transfixed not on cartoons that you would expect an eight year old to watch, but rather on a preacher in an open-air tent waving a bible, while pontificating, that if you didn’t do certain things you would be in trouble with the man himself.

Over the years these preachers traded in their tents for large glass cathedrals, with wrap around sound systems. As I listened to “the word,” I became curious and wondered what humanity was supposed to know about itself?

My questioning led me to notice that we humans are the only species on the planet who are out of order, which generated a larger question. What would cause the most intelligent animal on the planet to be self serving and destructive? The strategy that enabled me to discover the answer was sparked by an event that occurred when I enrolled in a calculus class.

I over heard a fellow student asked the professor if the course was going to be difficult? The professor replied, “Math is nothing more than rules. If you learn the rules and how to apply them, you’ll get the right answer.” I remember thinking, if the universe operates according to law, then surely there are guidelines that would enable us to eliminate our fears and unhappiness and live a life of abundance and gratitude. This quest became more than curiosity. I wanted to learn what makes us tick. There had to be a theory, a paradigm, something that would explain why we could be both extraordinary and dysfunctional at the same time.

Pursuing what’s possible is what coaches do. My E-Book, The Ultimate Life Changing Strategy, is my attempt to do just that. What follows is the Forward and Introduction to the book.

FOREWARD
Is something happening within our heads that we’re not aware of? We lose weight and regain it. We vow to get our financial house in order, only to find ourselves pulling out our credit cards, yet again, in an attempt to buy our way to happiness. We read books and attend seminars but in spite of all the information that’s available, we usually end up doing what we’ve always done because we’ve been educated to live through a part of ourselves that refuses to change.

Over a hundred and eighty million prescriptions are written every year in the United States for psychological drugs and the trend continues. The reported cases of depression in our country have almost doubled during the last decade. Are we being compromised by an internal force we do not understand?

If we could dismantle our psyches, we would discover that the creative centers of our brains have produced an automated, self-serving psychological manager that manipulates us through its “chatter.” This dichotomy has many names -- ego; saboteur; gremlin; devil; and false, alter and lower self -- but only one purpose, which is to claim our every moment.

INTRODUCTION
The Ultimate Life Changing Strategy is an introspective parable that revolves around a coincidental meeting between two characters, John and Noah. John is challenged by a class assignment and Noah, who has an uncanny awareness, unexpectedly aids John with his project. Together they peel back layers of humanity and discover:

- Why the highest level of consciousness escapes the most intelligent animal on the planet?

- Why we don't feel and act complete even through we're born complete?

- Why we haven't identified the cause of our suffering in an attempt to end it?

"Fortunate are the eyes that are able to see what you are about to see. Many prophets and kings wished to see it and never saw it, longed to hear it and never heard it." (Matt 13:17)