Purpose: A Journey from Breakdown to Breakthrough

Have you found your Purpose? This book takes the reader on a journey through adventure, success, crisis, survival, redemption, and abundant restoration. After suffering a midlife crisis that went bad, the author discovers that Purpose is the boundary on Freedom. The book provides a roadmap to achieving greater peace, fulfillment, and significance.

"I don't know if we each have a destiny or if we're all just floating around accidental like on a breeze. But I think maybe it's both. Maybe both is happening at the same time." Forrest Gump

Do you feel like your life has a destiny or is it just floating in the breeze like a feather? Learn how discovering and defining your purpose can lead you to greater success personally and professionally.

My hope is that by reading this book you will gain a perspective on your life that will help you get through the greatest challenges. My prayer is that you will consider taking a breath and looking around you for those who may be inspired to bless you. – Chuck Hendee

MAPPING THE JOURNEY AHEAD

This book starts, finding the author in the midst of restoration, and then fills in the background in the life that led to a midlife crisis in the year 2000.

The story takes the reader through the crisis, depression, and then on to the redemption and restoration of business and personal life. The author reveals, through the chapter on reflection, the personal and managerial traits leading to the crisis as well as the chapter on blessings that led to recovery.

The journey includes the revelation in a new management and incentive system that dramatically improved the authors company profits and value at the ultimate sale. The author explains how he discovered his core Purpose, in the chapter by that name, and provides a guide for the reader for their own personal journey.

Fasten your seatbelt, it's a heck of a ride.

Reviews:

Purpose is the poignant story of a man's journey from modest beginnings to business success through mental breakdown, financial peril and return to mental health and even greater business achievement.
To write a book such as Purpose requires an exceptionally high level of self-disclosure. Readers will be struck by the humility of the author's depiction of his childhood, and life as a young man. The author's faith in God is clarified and affirmed after the realization that his solitary managerial efforts "to keep all the plates spinning" would be insufficient to save his business. At the hour of maximum distress, he finds comfort in God, a faithful, competent wife, and his brother.
The depiction of the trajectory of Hendee Enterprises from garage scale operation to a much larger business supplying the largest retailers in the United States is exceptional principally for the granular insight into how a small business grows to hundreds of employees in less than 10 years. The author's belief that employees must share in the profits of a business and the mechanics for accomplishing this is an equally important takeaway of the book.

k. Churchill

It was a wonderful opportunity to read Chuck Hendee's book, Purpose. I only wish that it would have been available four years back when I was experiencing similar difficulties in my own life. I certainly would not have gotten to the phase that I did on the "Chart"! Although the experience was not pleasant at the time, it was life changing for the better and Purpose evoked reflective thoughts, a renewal in faith and focus on how God, not me is in control and He is all you need to make it through hardships that this earthly life will throw your way. I recommend that all Entrepreneurs read this book whether currently in despair or feel that everything is in order. It will help you find and or keep balance in life and it offers great business, emotional, and spiritual guidance that we all need in today's uncertain times.

Jason R Smith, Business Development Director, Archway Properties

Chuck has always had a passion for adventure and approached sailing, cycling, and motorcycle touring with the same obsession as building a successful manufacturing business with his dad. After managing and later buying the company, Chuck grew the business to twenty million in annual revenue and successfully sold the company for $10M in 2006.

In the year 2000, he experienced a business and personal personal mid-life crisis that is the basis for his book Purpose: A Journey from Breakdown to Breakthrough.

His redemption and restoration from this experience has deepened his faith and led him to a passion for giving back and serving community. Chuck has taught entrepreneurship with Junior Achievement and mentored students at the renowned Wolf Center for Entrepreneurship at the University of Houston. He directs a special needs ministry and serves as an elder for Sienna Ranch Baptist Church.

He and his wife Miriam just celebrated 50 years of marriage.

He is working on two other literary works. One is a business guide to developing and implementing incentive systems and the other is recounting his sailing adventures with his friend Kevin.