Welcome to my website!
I've applied my psychotherapy and life-coaching methods to improving my own life. Most pages are a "teach by example" lesson in how I assessed and improved some aspect of my life. I believe that if you take time to assess, experiment with, and document part of your life, then that part of your life can't help but improve. And the process is fun!


  Site goals.
  Site map.
  Writing articles and a book.
But dancing more than writing.

Building a solar home and custom vehicles.

Doing more cardio training, and improving my diet.

  Fave sources.
  About me.

You can email me at: NventiveGuy@yahoo.com     Copyright @ 2003-2008

Brief Background
I created this website at a point in my life when I was: a single parent, remodeling/expanding a big house alone, confused about my changing beliefs and career plan, and wanting to explain what I had done lately to some classmates. I found out that before I explained my life to my classmates, I'd need to understand it myself.

I'd had several different jobs in two different career fields. I had gotten an engineering degree (BSEE), and I had done engineering work and technical writing and management and quality consulting. I had also earned an education degree (MEd in Counseling & Career Development), and I had done career counseling, psychotherapy, and life-coaching. But none of these "jobs" satisfied more than one narrow part of me.

I wanted to feel whole and energized and fulfilled and know that I was doing the highest good I was capable of doing. None of these jobs helped me to express all my ideas and create what I wanted to create in my lifetime. So after more than 20 years of work in these two fields, I was ready to take a hard look at overhauling my life. I wanted a life that would utilize my experiences, express my strongest beliefs, and actualize my most passionate goals for the future. I also wanted the same for my clients. So I developed "The Pyramid Principle". This approach takes a high-level look at a person's whole life, not just at specific day-to-day problems. It is "teaching them to fish", rather than "giving them a fish".

I also found that I was wanting to do more "big picture" work, rather than focusing on a few individuals. I wanted to work at overhauling big systems, not individual lives. I was no longer life-coaching much, but I wanted to see if my principles would work. So I thought if I generalized my approach with a few clients to a wider audience, I would do more good in the world. Also, I really believe in living my own beliefs, and I love "teaching by example". So I applied the principles to my own "life design". They worked, so I am continuing to chronice the on-going process. Many of the pages on my site are examples of psychotherapy & life-design exercises that I did with myself, so I can vouch for the helpful effects of the principles.

I hope you'll see the benefit in doing what I've done. If you don't get to this depth of detail, that's ok. My hope is that you'll you'll learn how to express your deepest self in creating a life worth living. It's a fun process, with satisfying results.

Happy experimenting!

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