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husband and sons; writing; promoting

the values of this book. Once I realized

this, I had to make a change. I look

back on my years as a Wall Street lawyer

as time spent in a foreign country.

It was absorbing, it was exciting, and I

got to meet a lot of interesting people

whom I never would have known otherwise.

But I was always an expatriate.

Having spent so much time navigating

my own career transition and counseling

others through theirs, I have

found that there are three key steps to

identifying your own core personal

projects.

First, think back to what you loved to

do when you were a child. How did

you answer the question of what you

wanted to be when you grew up? The

specific answer you gave may have

been off the mark, but the underlying

impulse was not. If you wanted to be a

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