Defining
Moments™
They redefine who you are.
A memoir of becoming about what happens after life interrupts the person you thought you were.
Buy the BookRead a Few PagesThis book began long before it became a book.
In 2015, after a devastating accident changed the course of my life, I made myself a promise: if I made it through, I would not waste what the experience was trying to teach me.
Defining Moments™ is what happened when that promise finally demanded to be kept. It is not a chronology of hardship. It is a record of becoming—of learning what remains when control, certainty, strength, and identity are tested.
They were invitations.”
Thirty-six chapters. One life still becoming.
Some moments interrupt a life. Others quietly redefine it.
Across thirty-six chapters, David Lipscomb explores resilience, identity, purpose, love, fear, recovery, and the conversations we eventually have with ourselves when the crisis has passed.
“Clarity and emotional honesty throughout.”
From a reader review of Defining Moments™.
“Defining Moments™ immediately establishes its emotional and philosophical depth. What makes this book particularly compelling is its honesty… the moments we believed were breaking us may be the very moments that were building us.”
David Lipscomb
Entrepreneur. Author. Life Coach. Executive.
Founder of CIS Performance Group, David builds businesses, develops people, and writes about what it takes to lead, perform, recover, and become.
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An independent publishing house for work about becoming, purpose, performance, identity, and the moments that shape a life. Defining Moments™ is where the house begins—not where it ends.
Why 36 House?Defining Moments™
A Memoir of Becoming by David Lipscomb