“Nothing extraordinary has ever been found on the path of least resistance.” 

– Douglas McCarter

Putting Betrayal in its Place 

James had just finished a presentation marathon. Now he was sitting at a round table with a drink in one hand and a fork in the other. He was relaxing after a grueling day and evening. 

I came to sit across the table from him while thinking, “Does a former Marine Corps Intelligence NCO ever really relax?”

That’s when his smile, hidden most of the time behind his trimmed facial hair, broke through to answer my question. It was a smile that was easy and unburdened. It was the expression of someone at peace with self, a person with quiet, confirmed confidence, a confidence derived from having walked a challenging path.

“This is the second company I’ve created,” James said right before deepening his story with background. “I wouldn’t have been able to start Shadowscape without buttressed learning and companionship from my wife and my father, Douglas McCarter.”

Douglas McCarter grew up in poverty, but he wasn’t penurious in spirit. He was ambitious. He was the first person in his family to attend and graduate from college. He earned his MBA from UCLA and his BS in mechanical engineering at UCSB. After graduation he went on to become a senior member of the corporate planning staff for Morrison-Knudsen, was CFO of Emkay Development for a time and started several successful construction companies. He continually worked hard and even when the economic conditions of the Great Recession crushed his business he taught James a phrase that provided him with fortitude when his business partners betrayed him while selling their company.

“Nothing Extraordinary has ever been found on the path of least resistance,” Douglas imparted to James.

The other founders of James’ former company enriched themselves and left him with virtually nothing.

“That’s when my wife, during my deepest despair, said, ‘We have each other and even though we don’t have much money, we have a roof over our heads and love binding us together. Start a new company and I’ll be here with you through it all, win or lose!’”

So, James started a new company, Shadowscape, with his wife and father by his side.

James knows a thing or two about what it’s like to live life’s path. He knows the importance of living with people who will walk the path toward the extraordinary with him. He knows the pain of living through and with betrayal. Now, he knows the feeling of putting betrayal in its place; on the path behind him. That’s its place.

James is firmly on the path toward finding the extraordinary, with his loved ones by his side. 

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