We only get one shot at our life, and it is important to recognize this every moment of every day. This in turn requires us to recognize wonder, beauty and love, to thoroughly enjoy ourselves, and to fully accept the opportunities for responsibility that come our way. I have been very fortunate in all these respects in my life.
After a successful academic and business career, I left the corporate world in early 2006 and embarked upon what friends, family, and colleagues called a "Bohemian" lifestyle. It was fun ride for three years, during which time I taught myself to build websites, I built a diverse consulting business, and I published my first novel. Along the way I was ordained a zen priest, joined the board of the Interfaith Alliance of Metro Atlanta, climbed Half Dome, and took a number of wonderful trips, including one with my wife and children to China and another with my father to South Africa. I like to think I relearned how to give back and to have fun.
But I also remembered the enjoyment I found in helping business owners and operators navigate the cut and thrust of buying or selling a business, for many of whom this is the most important business decision of their life. I spent the last decade of my corporate career as a mergers and acquisitions principal, and it is with great excitement that I am turning the skills I learned there to join Abraxas Business Services, Inc. to provide business brokerage and mergers & acquisitions for small and middle market companies.
While my main focus will be on helping business owners identify and realize their financial and personal goals through corporate transactions, I will continue to support my existing finanSight clients and will strive to find the time to continue to write, just as I will continue my involvement in the business and spiritual communities. One day, maybe, I will find the time to promote my first novel, but in the meantime I am delighted that it is available on Amazon (in paperback and Kindle formats), and expect that my second novel will join it in the spring of 2010.
