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Beyond the Selfie
Escaping the Illusion of Success and Pursuing an Extraordinary Life
What if the reason your life doesn’t feel successful has less to do with what you’ve achieved and more to do with the definition you’ve been using?
The illusion
We built a world around the highlight reel.
The selfie is the perfect symbol of modern success: framed, filtered, cropped to remove whatever did not belong. It is not dishonest, exactly. It is just radically incomplete.
Most of us are comparing our unedited lives to everyone else’s edited ones, then concluding we are behind.
The story
Written from outside the frame.
Beyond the Selfie is built on the parts of Paul’s life that never made a bio: businesses that ended, plans that collapsed, seasons of starting over, and a faith that held when the outcome did not.
It explores everything outside the frame, the failures, detours, relationships, faith, curiosity and experiences that actually make a life extraordinary.
The framework
Six patterns that kept showing up.
Out of those chapters came the SELFIE Framework™, a six part lens for examining whether the life you are building is genuinely yours. Not a formula. And what the six letters actually stand for is revealed inside the book.
Explore the SELFIE Framework →Who it’s for
People who did everything right and still wonder.
- People who built the career and quietly ask whether this is really it.
- People in the middle of starting over, again, and unsure what that says about them.
- Leaders who are measured constantly and rarely by anything that matters to them.
- Anyone who suspects their scoreboard was written by someone else.
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