This post refers to my first series of blog posts. Be sure to read those if you’d like to understand the full context.

Before I came to my apprenticeship, I had absolutely no reason to believe that John would take me under his wing. How could I? I had absolutely NO ties to the personal growth industry. Logic would clearly say in a run on sentence, “Sean! You have ONE more year to get your college degree and you’re thinking of joining a program by this dude you don’t even know for a couple thousand dollars and giving up everything you’ve been doing in school the last 4 years for the hope that he’ll take you under his wing?! Don’t be foolish!”

That logical idea reflects the thoughts that were going through the minds of friends and family when I made my choices to not go back to school and to join the Having It All Challenge. And it’s easy to understand where they were coming from with the perspective of me being foolish. But what about now looking in hindsight?

The fact is that whenever you take risks in life, logic will most always (more…)