Dear Craig, I've been thinking about the impact you've made since we started talking. The changes I see are astounding: - a 180 in personal confidence - a change in my awareness of how things work around me - a better understanding of my weaknesses and strengths

You were invaluable. Perhaps the hardest task for most people, myself especially, is both listening to, and understanding oneself. It is easy to say one thing, it is easy to believe another, but often we have to test ourselves, either by finding challenges or being challenged by others. I see you as a guide through this process.

When we first spoke, I lacked the confidence in myself and what I was capable of, I also lacked the experience and perspective necessary to exact the change I wanted, or the decisiveness to know what change I wanted. Furthermore, it is easy to walk away from a job that one dislikes or a job that is a bad fit, it is much harder to walk away from a job that one considers a dream job. That was how I held my prior job - that is, until I woke up. In the process of our conversations, you guided me through the process of rebuilding my confidence in myself, in my abilities.

I guess this gets into the second thing: you provided a whole series of tools for understanding how to approach myself, and my career. You've introduced me to a few tools, some simple like Parachute or strengthsFinder, and others which appear simple, like concepts of value as it pertains to an organization. Most importantly, however, you challenged me to have confidence in myself and my intuition, and you also challenged me to push beyond what I was comfortable doing.

Abel doesn't mention here that he improved his income by 50%!