FROM 0 TO 0

The Journey in Between

I have spent most of my life trying to get somewhere. Somewhere better. Somewhere bigger. Somewhere safer.

Somewhere that would finally make me feel that I had arrived. I have known ambition. I have known money. I have known love. I have known success. I have known failure. I have known what it feels like to have people around you because of what you can offer—and what it feels like when those people disappear.

I have built businesses and watched them fall apart. I have made decisions I am proud of and decisions I wish I could make again. I have experienced freedom and I have experienced its absence.

I have lost people. I have lost money. I have lost businesses. At times, I have even lost myself.

And yet, somehow, I kept starting again. Today, looking back over more than five decades of life, I sometimes wonder whether I have really gone anywhere at all.

Because perhaps life has brought me back to where I started. Zero. But there is one important difference.

The man standing at zero today is not the boy who started there. He carries the scars, the memories, the mistakes, the relationships, the lessons and the experiences of everything that happened in between.

This is the story of that journey. From 0 to 0..