An Uncommon Way Forward
The well-preserved spirit of Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote conjures up notions of seeing beyond the horizons of our own personal realities, intrigues us enough to pause and gaze at our own constellation of possibilities and invites us onward to a better place and time in our world. This blog is dedicated to all those who seek their fuller and better self. Your time has come. Your odyssey begins now.
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E-mail us at breakout@ai-ltd.net or call us at 773-230-8817 with questions and comments.

Monday, December 27, 2021
Peter Willert's Portfolio Career Employment Profile
Wednesday, June 9, 2021
Retirement Account Estimating and Tracking Made Simple
Confused by all those tables and pie charts provided by your retirement account website? Looking for a simple computer-based tool to estimate and track ALL of your accounts in what-if, at-a-glance, all-inclusive fashion?
Build your confidence in following your financial retirement potential in a way never before offered. Here, we provide you with an Excel program requiring the very simplest of keyboarding skills. Add this to your strategies both you and your financial advisor can use to project and follow your retirement goals.
Account Type 2 RAET: Dividends and Gains with required minimum and tax burden redemption at retirement and defined contribution limits.
Account Type 3 RAET: Interest-bearing accounts.
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Sunday, June 6, 2021
Rent-a-Putt
Includes assorted audio-supported putting challenges, 9 hole putting competitions, practice scenarios and sensational feedback modalities.
Leasing time to use Rent-a-Putt makes even more sense when seeking to avoid the hazards of owning richly enhanced digital marvels like this. No complicated and costly storage and repair charges to worry about.
You provide a temperature and weather controlled, well-lit location and we'll provide the rest.
Call or text us today at 773-230-8817
EQUIPMENT RENTAL SPECIFICATIONS
RENTERS OF RENT-A-PUTT AGREE TO THE FOLLOWING RENTAL TERMS AND CONDITIONSPlease see your tax advisor to determine to what extent, if any, leasing Rent-a-Putt can convey any tax benefits or responsibilities to you.
Saturday, February 13, 2021
Lifetime Wellness Empowerment Seminars
I've had the good fortune to provide a number of wellness seminars over the past several years. As such, my presentations feature exploration of lifetime wellness topics like achieving purposeful employment and career satisfaction, financial security now and in your retirement years, how leadership today is defined and honored facilitating personal well-being and professional growth, physiological health assessments, and review of strategies and activities designed to realize unique and creative ways to discover the promise of entrepreneurship in an environment, like today, which embraces innovation, courage and vision.
Here's a brief review of my empowerment seminars ...
1 Your Life’s Work Vision
Provides the individual with a robust industry domain self-inventory and analysis suggesting potential employment markets suited to the individual’s career strengths, passions and search for purposeful employment.
Provided in the one-on-one setting or group seminar (2 hour) format, in person or virtual (Zoom). Donation negotiable.
2 The New Rainmakers
Explores today’s need for creativity to address the ever-changing environment of employment realities. Features an in depth review of ‘Portfolio Careerism’: diversifying employment opportunities serving to ‘bullet-proof’ one’s career in today’s employment market.
Provided in the one-on-one setting or group seminar (2 hour) format, in person or virtual (Zoom). Donation negotiable.
3 Pillars of Living Well
Let’s take a look at the many faces of what living well in today’s world demands. At the heart and soul of a healthy and fulfilling life is the need to know and apply some of the key principles or ‘pillars’ known to ensure our overall wellness.
Provided in the one-on-one setting or group seminar (2 hour) format, in person or virtual (Zoom). Donation negotiable.
(Click here) Pillars of Living Well Menu of Topics
4 Assessing Lifetime Wellness
When it comes to living well we are best served to explore how our current state of emotional, social, occupational, financial and physical health serve our overall wellness with the assistance of carefully constructed retirement and health assessment tools and activities.
Provided in the one-on-one setting or group seminar (2 hour) format, in person or virtual (Zoom). Donation negotiable.
(Click here) Assessing Lifetime Wellness Menu of Topics
5 Financial Wellness Checkup
Some Questions to consider when evaluating your preparedness today and in the future: Do I have a healthy savings strategy? Am I financially on the right track to retire comfortably? What is my New Worth? Why is that important to know? How can budgeting be made simple and serviceable? And many more.
Provided in the one-on-one setting or group seminar (2 hour) format, in person or virtual (Zoom). Both Comprehensive and Simplified editions are available. Donation negotiable.
6 Retirement Account Estimator and Tracker (RAET) - See separate post on this website for greater detail.
Confused by all those tables and pie charts provided by your retirement account website? Looking for a simple computer-based tool to estimate and track ALL of your accounts in what-if, at-a-glance, all-inclusive fashion?
Build your confidence in following your financial retirement potential in a way never before offered. Here, we provide you with an Excel program requiring the very simplest of keyboarding skills. Add this to your strategies both you and your financial advisor can use to project and follow your retirement goals.Provided in the one-on-one setting or group seminar (2 hour) format, in person or virtual (Zoom). Donation negotiable.
Are you a school, business, chamber of commerce, career center, employment agency, alumni association, church group, and the like, whose staff, clients or membership might benefit from these seminars? I can be reached as below. I'm happy to discuss how we might collaborate.
Here are a few links to articles devoted to discussing the merits of ROI of Wellness initiatives in the workplace.Zoom Seminar Dates Available: All times are CST.SUN, ?/?, 9 AMSUN, ?/?, 7 PMTUES, ?/?, 9 AMTHURS, ?/?, 1 PMPast Presentations and Seminars
St Hubert’s Career Ministry, Hoffman Estates, IL. The New Rainmakers.
St Hubert’s Career Ministry, Arlington Hts., IL. Assessing Lifetime Wellness.
Executive Network Group of Greater Chicago. The New Rainmakers.
Career Transition Center of Chicago. Your Life's Work Vision.
Harold Washington College. Pillars of Living Well.
WorkNet Dupage Career Center. The New Rainmakers.
Barrington Career Center, Barrington IL. Your Life's Work Vision.
DePaul University, Keynote Address, February 2010 Career Week. Pillars of Living Well.
Career Transition Center of Chicago. Assessing Lifetime Wellness.
Contact Information
Peter Willert, MS, CWP. National Wellness Institute (NWI) - Certified Wellness Practitioner
Phone (textable): 773-230-8817
Email: pwillertcwp@gmail.com
Website: www.anuncommonwayforward.blogspot.com
Twitter - Peter.Willert
Sunday, January 24, 2021
Sports Friendship 'Fun" Raisers
Instead of thinking outside the box, get rid of the box. Deepak Chopra
Proposal and Rational.
The task of creating and nurturing sustaining fundraising activities is a vital part of many organizations and institutions. Here’s an opportunity to consider how thrilling sports competition can be engineered to embrace creativity and innovation, providing a new and exciting way in which time-honored sports can be enjoyed by co-workers, alumni, parishioners, students and their family members, club membership, et al, for the worthy purpose of meeting your development goals and objectives.
Or perhaps your organization might very simply want to explore its promise 'just for the fun of it'.
In a non-traditional format of competition, Sports Friendship ‘Fun” Raisers - provided to you in 'turnkey' fashion, ready for immediate use, with complete, easy to follow instructions - is a transformative way to add to a sport that respects individual accomplishment, honors team play and is widely accepted as a cultural monolith among sports enthusiasts, young and old.
This proposal is submitted and supported by the John Anthony George Foundation (JAGF), 501c3. Its founder, principal and its administrators propose this initiative in fulfillment of its charter to support deserving and/or underfunded youth education and sports activities and VFW relief initiatives, particularly in the city of Chicago.
Objectives and Benefits.
· To gather participants within their respective venues of play to once again benefit from the physical, emotional and social value acknowledged sports competition can provide.
· To construct an activity that embraces the thrill of competition for its participants.
· To engage enrolled recreation centers, park districts, schools, and the like, in one or more of the suggested and supported formats of competition, fostering inter-institutional coordination and collaboration.
· To honor the importance leisure and sports activity provides, especially as it relates to its role in ensuring healthy socialization among friends, students and associates and in fulfilling the expectations we have of these activities in service of our overall well-being.
· Careful social-distancing and infection-avoidant behaviors and practices can be easily deployed throughout the course of competition where and when it is determined to be prudent or necessary.
Competition Architecture
*Compete in one or more of the following levels and types of play:
1. Elementary School; Just-for-the-fun-of-it; either gender, both and/or co-ed. (No officials)
2. Elementary School; Girls’ Competitive.
3. Elementary School; Boys’ Competitive.
4. Post-Elementary School; up to & including age 21; Just-for-the-fun-of-it; either gender, both and/or co-ed. (No officials)
5. Post-Elementary School; up to & including age 21; Girls’ Competitive.
6. Post-Elementary School; up to & including age 21; Boys’ Competitive.
7. Over 21; Just-for-the-fun-of-it; either gender, both and/or co-ed. (No officials)
8. Over 21; Women’s Competitive
9. Over 21; Men’s Competitive
10. Over 21; Competitive; either gender, both and/or co-ed.
Pickleball Friendship 'Fun' Raiser
* The format of competitive play will be determined by the number of teams entered. A maximum of 8 and a minimum of 4 teams is required for each level and type of play.
* Typical competitive formats used: Single Pool Round Robin followed by a playoff round … Two Pool Round Robin followed by a playoff round … Two Pool Crossovers … Two Pool Crossovers followed by a playoff round, among others.
* 1 day, minimum 4 match guarantee. 2 out of 3 games wins match. Rally scoring. First to 15 wins. No deuce.
Shot Clock Shootout Friendship 'Fun' Raiser
5 Competitive Shooting Skills Challenges Overview.
1. Two-player tandem, shot alternating, 3 point or
spot designated shooting challenge. Each team competes twice. Better score is
recorded.
2. Three player tandem, shot assigned, FT and 3 point or
spot designated shooting challenge. Each team competes twice. Better time is
recorded.
3. Three player tandem, shot assigned, 3 point or spot
designated shooting challenge. Each team competes twice. Better time is
recorded.
4. Three player tandem, FT (Swish), shooting
challenge. Each team competes twice. Better score is recorded.
5. Traditional, single shooter, shot assigned, 3 point or spot designated shooting challenge. Each team chooses 3 players to compete. Cumulative shots earned among 3 competitors is recorded.
Hoop Dream Friendship 'Fun' Raiser
· The format of competitive play will be determined by the
number of teams entered. A maximum of 8 and a minimum of 4 teams is required
for each level and type of play.
· Typical competitive formats used: Single Pool Round Robin
followed by a playoff round … Two Pool Round Robin followed by a playoff round
… Two Pool Crossovers … Two Pool Crossovers followed by a playoff round, among
others.
· 1 day, minimum 4 game guarantee. 2 - 16 minute running halves. Stop clock last 2 minutes of the game. OT: 1st - 1 min; 2nd - First to score. All bonus FTs are 1 and 1 at 7th foul each half. 5th foul individual player elimination.
Bump, Set and Spike Friendship 'Fun' Raiser
· The format of competitive play will be determined by the
number of teams entered. A maximum of 8 and a minimum of 4 teams is required
for each level and type of play.
· Typical competitive formats used: Single Pool Round Robin
followed by a playoff round … Two Pool Round Robin followed by a playoff round
… Two Pool Crossovers … Two Pool Crossovers followed by a playoff round, among
others.
· 1 day, minimum 4 match guarantee. 2 out of 3 games wins match. Rally scoring. First to 21 wins. No deuce.
Rent-a-Putt Friendship 'Fun' Raiser (see separate post on this website)
Organizational Scope.
Competition can be organized at the state, region, school conference and individual institution/entity level.
Expected Fiduciary Obligations of Participants.
While the JAGF cannot claim Shot Clock Shootouts as a concept or idea as a matter of intellectual property, those institutions, agencies, et al, choosing to deploy it in its given structure and detail, agree, in good faith and as reflects an ethical expression of compensatory use, to either (1) make a respectable ‘usual and customary’ donation to the JAGF a. one time only reflecting the value of its unlimited use over time or b. for each discreet event conducted or (2) offer ‘right of first refusal’ to the JAGF for the responsibility of assigning officials for any and all such events, now and in the future. All copyright restrictions will be lifted once elected fiduciary obligations are met by participating agencies, institutions, and the like.
Contact Info.
Peter Willert
Founder and Principal, John Anthony George Foundation, 501c3
Phone: 773-230-8817
Email: 1. breakout@ai-ltd.net 2. pwillertcwp@gmail.com
Sunday, December 15, 2019
JAGF Vehicle Donation Program

Do you or anyone you know have a clunker of a car, boat, motorcycle, and the like, destined for the trash heap?The John Anthony George Foundation is qualified as a fully recognized 501c3 to receive such donations in support of our stated mission of serving carefully selected deserving Chicago youth education and sports opportunities and needs. Thanks for considering our appeal.
We welcome any Qs or thoughts you may have and can best be reached at 773-230-8817.
Saturday, December 14, 2019
Portfolio Careerism: More than just a gig!
Portfolio Careerism
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1. Contractorship-Centric: An entity of one exclusively designs and predominantly provides products and services. Routinely outsources to other contractors when demand exceeds ability to supply. Single source for control and degree of risk for performance or product quality, revenue flow, effort and expenses. State-of-the-art self employment.
2. Vocation-Based: Largely blends a model of service and product delivery defined by career experience (historical) with a greater need to express talents and personal goals when pursuing a desire for commercial self-fulfillment and -characterization.
3. Network-driven: Chiefly defines the market through personal understanding and access to demand sources through a carefully executed flow of networking around, through and with commercial “firewalls”, “gatekeepers” and “friendlies”, respectively. Actively engages business development contractors and contracts where appropriate.
4. Customized-serviceable: Supply diverse, demand accommodating.
Conventional Employment
1. Customarily employs talent-diverse, skill specific individuals as collective entity to provide products and/or services. Rarely if ever needs to outsource to contractors. Control and degree of risk for performance quality, revenue flow, effort and expenses dependent almost exclusively upon scope of staff size, abilities and commitment.
2. Largely or almost exclusively deploys employee abilities against a purely commercial needs drive to the “bottom line”. Rarely if ever defines corporate satisfaction as measured personal effort hours saved or individual goals achieved.
3. Carefully assesses a market’s potential through achievable penetration and potential revenue yield deploying conventional mass marketing tactics and sales “demand-creation” strategies .
4. Conventional practice attracting a large, one-product, one-service-fits-all customer base.
We here at the John Anthony George Foundation provide workshops live and virtually, via Zoom, exploring Portfolio Careerism, as presented in my book, An Uncommon Way Forward (Infinity Publishing, 2009), in all its possibilities. Call or text us now at 773-230-8817 to find a time to chat about how you, or those you work with or serve, can discover these wondrous truths in search of an exciting alternative approach to career fulfillment.
Carpe diem, friends!
Peter Willert