Taking 65° to the Next Level
65° Magazine is amazing and deserves amazing success. And so I’m going to help it to succeed.
At one time or another I’ve owned 22 companies scattered across the world and retired before age 50 with more money than a normal person could spend in a dozen lifetimes. However, my purpose in life had only begun.
My financial success was a remarkable achievement for a person who began life as a poor white-trash Georgia cracker, and raised in a sharecropper cabin.
Following two tours in Special Forces in Vietnam, I began making my mark in industry, eventually rising to the position of Senior Vice President at Ingersoll-Rand and then starting a decade of unbounded entrepreneurial activities, buying, making-over, and then selling a succession of companies. I sold my last company in 1991. And retired.
For two days.
I didn’t really retire because that same year I founded J.L. White International — a management consulting company and developed a curriculum called the Circle of Success, which taught executives the strategy that I had used with my companies.
In the subsequent 15 years more than 100,000 people graduated from the course. We established a profitability baseline when they began and ultimately measured a profit increase during the course for all our students of over $500 million.
My own purpose is not to make money, but to help others become successful in creating financial and spiritual abundance. My purpose is especially to help others discover their purpose — to ignite the burning thing inside so they can live life to the limit of their vision and talents. I help launch people on their journey of personal and professional growth.
Because I know my purpose my work is fun. I’m helping others to take action in discovering why they are here on this planet. They’ve got to do more than wish for it. Each of us must take control of our lives, which means that we must unequivocally define what our purpose is.
It’s been an amazing journey that brought me from my rural backwater childhood to my current destiny of prosperity and service — and to an amazing life that every day grows constantly more worth living.
And now, as CEO of 65° Magazine, I’m planning to explore the outer limits of the impact that print journalism can make upon society. It will be an amazing journey!
Drop Me a Line: jimw@jlwhiteinternational.com |