Stefan Börlin – District 59 Spring 2008 Conference – Prague, Czech Republic

At the age of forty one Stefan Börlin started the change leading to the realisations he will share with his audience in the speech “Be a Personal Guide”. The speech is an introduction to his latest and fourth book, carrying the same title.

Stefan is a fortyfive year old engineer that lives together with his family of wife and two kids in in a village, that can be translated into “Charlie Garfield”. Even Swedes asks if that really is a place. It is!

Last year he wrote three books privately releasing two of them. During this spring he has finished his fourth book. Until four years ago Stefan never choosed the struggles in which he took part. Instead he followed something that could have been seen as the path of least resistance or the path of what he thought could be expected from him. He never engaged in the choises and followed other peoples minds.This provided him and his family a life that seemed to be excellent. Two well paid jobs, two nice cars and a wonderful house in the suburbs of Gothenburg. But there was that feeling of something being out of order.

Today, four years later, he can tell the benefits and the challenges of change. His and his family's life now includes money in the bank instead of monthly challenges with mortgages, excellent physical health, they drive a sportscar, his wife works from home, they own a horse, he and his son practices floor ball as coach and player in one of the worlds most successful floor ball teams, they own two homes, beside the big house in the strange place in Sweden there is also a new eternal summer house in Thailand. The list can be made longer.

The three books Stefan wrote last year, he wrote beside a full time employment and an active family life. In “Being a personal guide”, he describes his road and findings to a success by personal definition. Stefan is still busy in a fulltime employment but today his attitudes towards it is completely different than four years ago. Change does not need to be so dramatic!

Knowing what can happen in four years with limited ambition he looks forward to the next four years that will establish him as an author and a speaker. Ironically he loves that job he hated going to only four years ago! What is succcess?

Motto: “Before you go to battle, make sure to believe in the cause.”