CHAPTER 9I’m Going Through a Phase

We are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind or whether to act, and in acting, to live.

—General Omar Bradley

For the first 10 years of his career, Michael Stern essentially followed in his father’s footsteps. “My dad didn’t like his job. His work was only a means to make a living and to provide for us. So it was not through my family that I learned about creating a rewarding life,” Michael told me. Although he had a job that might be the envy of many, and a salary to match, Michael began to realize that he wanted something more from his work and his life. He explained it this way: “Figuring out what I really wanted to do took me several years of doing ...

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