(Read Contacting Paulo Coelho… to learn the background of this email)

Dear Paulo Coelho,

In The Alchemist, you mention that “…when someone makes a decision, he is really diving into a strong current that will carry him to places he had never dreamed of when he first made the decision.” Continue Reading »

(click here to read part I of the story)

David knew what that normal life entailed.  He had lived it the past 5 years.  At 28, he thought, if I go back now, that will be it.  I will probably never return.  And he was probably right.

A traveler who returns home from his journeys always wants to travel again.  Perhaps he need not travel to the same physical place, but he will want to travel to recapture the feeling, the spirit, the adventure of meeting new people and having new experiences each day.  He wants to, but he probably won’t. Continue Reading »

 It’s the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.   Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

I am seated in South America writing.  Would I be seated here writing Contacting Paulo Coelho were it not for The Alchemist?  Probably, but not certainly. Continue Reading »

Making Career Decisions

Many of you college seniors will be graduating in a couple of months.  Everybody is asking you, “Well, what are you going to do with your life?” 

When they ask this, they really mean your career.  But it’s more dramatic.  Life. Continue Reading »