The book
How to Draw Outside the Lines
A book in progress
How to Draw Outside the Lines
Raul A. Gonzalez
Still being written.
The chapters are coming together now. The people on the list read the first one before anyone else, and hear first when it's out.
Get the first chapterYou did what you were told. You got the grades, took the job, kept your head down, said thank you. It worked — that's the strange part. The plan delivered exactly what it promised, and you still feel like you're living a life you never actually chose.
This is a field guide for people in their twenties and thirties in that exact spot. Not a manifesto, not a system. It starts with the rules you absorbed without ever agreeing to them, walks through how to tell the ones worth keeping from the ones you inherited by accident, and gives you a small number of tools blunt enough to use this week.
It won't ask you to blow up your life, abandon your family, or leave your faith behind. Those are the things worth protecting. What it will ask is that you stop treating someone else's expectations as physics — and that you test one of them, on purpose, soon.
Who it's for
- You followed the plan and it worked, and it still isn't enough.
- Nobody in your circle has built anything different.
- You don't want to burn down your life to change it.
What you'll walk away with
- The ability to name the inherited rules running your life.
- Tools you can use the same week.
- Evidence that the trajectory is changeable.
First readers
Read the first chapter first.
Your email address, nothing else. You get the first chapter when it's ready, and the Break Barriers Week card right now.