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10 Things I Learned While Being Homeless

Posted on May 6, 2016May 29, 2024 by Paul

I’ve been homeless. In fact, I spent over a year ‘living’ in my truck in a Walmart parking lot. It wasn’t easy – by no stretch. But even in that situation there are Open Doors and Opportunity – things you can learn. Mostly out of necessity. What did I learn? Here are 10 of the lessons…

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Open Doors and Opportunity From A Closed Door and No Opportunity Life

Posted on May 5, 2016December 10, 2023 by Paul

I got a Big Gulp for Christmas one year. Dr. Pepper. I was excited to get it. I thought it was awesome. I don’t know why I just thought about that. Maybe it’s because I get a Big Gulp every day. That and while thinking about it, I was reminded that my dad got up…

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When The Struggle Is Real And Seems Never Ending

Posted on October 27, 2015December 10, 2023 by Paul

I was in complete disarray. My life had just crashed down around me. I thought she would want me to come home. Instead she told me not to ever again. Stuck in a town I didn’t live in – and having spent all the money I had with no more in sight, I did the…

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Open Doors and Opportunity – it’s what we wake up each day hoping to find.

We need Open Doors and Opportunity in order to move forward, become healthier, and live better lives.

Spiritual, emotional, physical, and financial improvements can only come from finding and using Open Doors and Opportunity to your advantage … (more)

Welcome to Open Doors and Opportunity!

My name is Paul and I’m the owner of this blog.

The picture of me above was taken by a very famous photographer who has also photographed Presidents of the United States, numerous celebrity actors and various sports professionals, as well as other business professionals like myself.

I was supposed to have a feature article written about what a great marketing professional I was in GQ Magazine, or Fortune Magazine, or Forbes, or Playboy … one of those … but then, things went sideways.

Really sideways.

The article was never written, the photo was never used anywhere, I was fired from the job that made that photo possible, I lost my home and ended up traveling all over in my pick-up truck (known as Unit #4) and staying in various Wal-Mart parking lots (what I like to call the Wal-Mart Condo Association) for 2 years.

In the meantime, I’ve done everything. I’ve been a partner in the largest nightclub in SWFL, written songs with Grammy Winners in the Songwriter Hall of Fame, started as a public relations grunt and worked my way to Chief Marketing Officer of a restaurant group, and much, much, much more and many things.

It’s been a crazy life – with highs and lows not experienced by anyone who ever “played it safe” — but I was born to live, and so, that’s what’s I’ve done. These are just some of those (all true 100%) stories.