CYCLES

Several people warned me not to sign the biggest deal of my life. They told me to wait and take at least a year off. I didn't listen. I signed anyway, and I failed catastrophically. It cost me more than a million euros, my house and I ended up in the hospital with heart problems.

Then I noticed something strange. I had failed the same way nine years earlier. And nine years before that too.

When I started talking to other people, I heard the same story. My own father had fallen in business and in life every nine years. The more I looked, the more I saw it: most of the people, companies, and situations I studied rose and fell at regular intervals.

So I became obssesed with it, and I found out that these cycles have been documented for more than a century. This book is the result.

Life doesn't move in a straight line. It moves in pulses. Just like nature, the economy, civilizations, and your own energy, it has its spring, summer, autumn, and winter. Yet most of us keep trying to live as if summer should last 365 days a year.

In Cycles, you'll discover:

• why not every time is right for growth and decline doesn't have to mean failure
• how to recognize the phase of life you're in right now
• how to prepare for both good times and bad times
• how to communicate with people in different phases of their lives
• how to avoid the wrong financial and life decisions
• why the same situations keep repeating in your life
• what billionaires and researchers found about the rhythms behind history and markets

This isn't a book about predicting the future, and it won't promise you easy money or an amazing life. It's the story of a man who learned about timing the hard way, and a practical map for making better decisions in your own life, relationships, business, and finances.

You're not a machine. You're not a chart that should keep rising every day. You're part of a rhythm. Every rhythm has its peaks and its falls. Learn to recognize when your time will come.