The Fifth Quarter Project provides continuing career development education to those interested in competing at the highest level in our highly competitive, constantly changing world
ATTN: (Highly) Motivated, (Genuinely) Aspiring Career Success Seekers
The race is on...the road is long...the question is simple
ARE YOU TRULY COMMITTED TO SUCCEED?
(Be careful with your answer...)
The simple TRUTH...success is not easy.
Success is built on thought, preparation, planning, and ACTION!
- IF YOU ARE (TRULY) COMMITTED TO YOUR OWN SUCCESS…
- IF YOU’RE WILLING TO DO WHAT UNSUCCESSFUL PEOPLE ARE NOT WILLING TO DO…
- IF CONSTRUCTING A MODEL TARGETING SUCCESS, ROOTED IN THOUGHT, PREPARATION, AND PLANNING MAKES MORE SENSE TO YOU THAN YOUR CURRENT METHODOLOGY...
“A mountain of work went into Barry Kleiman’s The Fifth Quarter Project, which can serve as a major catalyst to assist former athletes in living a fulfilled life. Far too often after their playing careers end, they become a forgotten part of society and this is most difficult for them after all the fanfare they received as athletes. The Fifth Quarter Project can serve as a beacon light for them in their darkest hours.”
Dale Brown, Louisiana State University (LSU) Head Basketball Coach, 1972–1997
What began in 2013 as a grassroots movement, (informally assisting former college athletes with their career planning and ascension), has now taken formal shape as The Fifth Quarter Project.
Enriched by numerous interviews, podcasts and videos with individuals whose own well-documented success stories have occurred in executive boardrooms, (Emmy-winning) Hollywood “writers rooms”, high-profile courtrooms, etc, The Fifth Quarter Project’s syllabus 100% non-theoretical, action-oriented syllabus has one overarching goal…
Ingrain in each participant the realities for achieving “real-world” prosperity.
“In business school classrooms they construct wonderful models of a non-world.”
-Peter Drucker
Admittance to The Fifth Quarter Project Challenge occurs only four times a year.
DESIGNED TO DISRUPT
Because The Fifth Quarter Project’s curriculum is “designed to disrupt” (the current institutional learning norms) we focus on attracting, educating and helping transform ONLY those uniquely visionary individuals who:
- Seek a deeper understanding of the actual challenges facing each of us each day
- Seek an evolutionary, non-cookie-cutter version of how these challenges are effectively met; how successful careers are REALLY constructed
- Possess the motivation, resilience, and accountability needed for success (regardless of one’s endeavor)
(As a result)...before Applying please beware!
The Fifth Quarter Project’s 2019 Challenge is not for everyone
It clearly is a “challenge”...
...placing demands on each individual to not only dig deeper into themselves than quite possibly they have at any other time in their life but also to have the courage and discipline to stay the course.
"In sports, (and in life), it isn’t hard to be good from time to time. What’s tough is being good every day.”
- Willie Mays
The Fifth Quarter Project’s 2019 Challenge is:
COMPETITORS ONLY NEED APPLY!!!!
(According to Merriam - Webster)
COMPETE - “strive consciously or unconsciously for an objective”
If you genuinely want to succeed the facts are these...
- You will strive to make it happen...you will compete!
- You will put your blood, sweat, and tears into making it happen.
Along the way to new heights, it’s a near certainty that obstacles will present themselves and in numerous ways.
Without a definitive, well-reasoned plan along with a set of skills, tools, and principles to assist your executing the plan, those obstacles will likely seem insurmountable.
“Principles are ways of successfully dealing with reality to get what you want out of life.”
- Ray Dalio
If you’re interested in possessing a set of principles to
- Equip you with an appropriately heightened awareness of your current reality (...true competitors want to know the real score)
- Help you ask yourself the right questions (...the right answers can only come from the right questions!)
- Assist you to clearly understand how best to quantify your individual priorities (...so that you’ll never doubt the direction in which you’re going.)
- Effectively discover defining “success” on your own terms (...so the definition of others won’t discourage your quest)
- Reveal your personal integrity (...trusting yourself provides maximum upside to your success)
- Learn the leverage of, and reason to strive for “excellence”. (...if every action you take produces a quality result your name and reputation will be synonymous with excellence)
- Reveal the potency and power of goals (“What you get by achieving your goals is not nearly as important as what you become by achieving your goals” - Zig Ziglar)
- Discover the competitive advantage you’ll possess if you understand and build the best practices of “marketing” into all that you do. (...each one of us must answer the question “Why you?”...can you?)
- Unearth your own particular genius for conducting “meaningful” conversations (...meaningful conversations lead to meaningful relationships)
- Learn exactly why “networking doesn’t work nearly as well as “connecting” and just how to “connect” with people (...remember, making it meaningful is vital!)
- Become beyond proficient in effective writing (...another secret for “connecting”)
- Quickly and easily excel in the leverage of LinkedIn (...it provides you the most powerful tool to facilitate “connecting” on the planet)
- Roll together all of the above to make cover letter and resume writing easy (...so you can avoid the numbing drudgery of doubt)
- Escape the anxiety of interviewing (...no anxiety = quiet confidence making everything you do so much more potent!)
The foundational premise of The Fifth Quarter Project is illuminating to people the numerous, evolutionary ways to see, learn, and do heartfelt, WORK THAT MAKES A DIFFERENCE in their own life...then the lives of others
We founded The Fifth Quarter Project to make a difference.
We believe that what is offered via The Fifth Quarter Project’s 2019 Challenge will provide the TRUE competitor with tools and principles to do the same.
Consider Applying to The Fifth Quarter Project’s 2019 Challenge if you’re up to the challenge