Free and Clear: The Personal Operating System

I wasn't broken. I was running the wrong code.For fifty years, Randy Clinkscale did exactly what he was built to do. As a chief financial officer, he read the books of other people's companies, found where the truth was hiding, and made the numbers make sense. He never audited the one set of books that mattered most - his own.Free and Clear opens on the night that changed: a man sitting in his own driveway, engine off, unable to walk into the home he'd built for a family he loved - and finally asking why.What he found was an operating system installed in childhood and never questioned. Four silent rules - be needed, achieve, carry everything, never believe there's enough - that looked like duty, felt like love, and quietly cost him his marriage, his peace, and nearly himself.Part memoir, part field guide, this is the honest reckoning of a numbers man who turned his diagnostic mind on his own life. With unflinching clarity and unexpected tenderness, Clinkscale traces the inherited code from a grandmother's kitchen to a marriage's end, through the grief he'd spent a lifetime avoiding, to the hardest skill of all: learning to receive.This is not a story about surviving. It's a blueprint for tearing down the old code and building a life that is, at last, your own.Like the Rose of Jericho, he wasn't dead. He was waiting for water.

Pagina's: 117, Paperback, Independently published