Bio

Patrick O’Donnell is a devoted husband and father as well as an entrepreneur and consultant.  He is a founder of Path Insight and one of the regular contributors to the blog.

Through his involvement in Path Insight, he is following his passion to help people discover and utilize the tools to achieve their goals and create success in business and life.  It’s his desire to help others do what they love and make money doing it.  This is achieved through a blend of career consulting and Internet marketing.  The FREE e-Courses on this site allow users to learn how to discover their passion, target a profitable niche, build a good looking website and drive traffic to the site.  Of course, for those that do not have the time, Path Insight will do it for them.  He created RevStream Marketing to work with individuals and organizations to produce videos for personal use to capture memories and professional use to attract more clients and close more sales using video marketing and web 2.0 strategies.

The below sections include Mr. O’Donnell’s favorite quotes, main interests, professional background, his inspiration in business and life and a section to leave comments…

Favorite Quotes

“Change doesn’t come at once. It’s a wave. Building before it breaks.”
- Eddie Vedder, from the Pearl Jam song Undone off of Lost Dogs

“Be the change you wish to see in the world.”
- Ghandi

“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams and live the life you have always imagined.”
- Henry David Thoreau

“Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.”
- Franklin Roosevelt

“Freedom does not come automatically. It is achieved. It is not gained in a single bound. It must be achieved each day.”
- Rollo May, Man’s Search for Himself

“What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.” and
“Tomorrow becomes never. No matter how small the task, take the first step now.”
- Tim Ferriss, The 4-Hour Workweek

Main Interests

• Celebrating life with loved ones
• Hard-edge and inspirational rock music, primarily Pearl Jam and Third Day
• Intense fitness and workouts like CrossFit
• Entrepreneurial success stories and endeavors
• Helping people rise above challenges to achieve their goals
• Giving back to the world

Giving Back

In an ongoing desire to give back to others, Mr. O’Donnell donates a portion of the profits from his business endeavors to his family foundation, the Light the Future Foundation.  The foundation provides support to charitable causes that assist and inspire people, primarily children and young adults, to rise above their challenges to achieve their goals and dreams.

Professional Background

Mr. O’Donnell is certified as a consultant for delivering The Birkman Method®.  The Birkman Method® is the industry-leading business tool that facilitates individual growth, corporate change, and organizational effectiveness.  Through this certification, Patrick O’Donnell has been able to provide the feedback from this valuable assessment to clients on an individual and group basis.  Many people from college-bound students to executives in transition have benefited from the feedback while determining the next step in their career.

Patrick O’Donnell graduated with Honor from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1999 with a degree in Management.  Upon graduation, he specialized in working with companies to create and maintain their ideal Internet presence and marketing strategy.  Utilizing overseas development centers, he was outsourcing to India before it was all the rage.  After several years of assisting his clients and being recognized for outstanding customer service, he uncovered that his passion was found in assisting people in rising above challenges to reach their goals and create their ideal path to success in business and in life.  Mr. O’Donnell began working at a premier career consulting and outplacement firm.  He also completed post-graduate work in College Counseling through UCLA Extension.

Path Insight allows Patrick O’Donnell to assist individuals in raising their performance to new levels of excellence in order achieve success in business and life.

Inspiration for life as told by Patrick

The inspiration for my life and business endeavors obviously comes from family, friends and loves, but these following beliefs drive me in my life:

I.    Build on Your Blessings
Improvising a line from the Pearl Jam song w.m.a., we feel we “won the lottery by being born,” and it is only right to build on any blessing we may have been given to make the world a better place.

II.    Change doesn’t come at once, it’s a wave.  Building before it breaks, so be the change you wish to see in the world
Changing ones mindset and then taking action to bring about the ideal results in this world is quite important today, so we’ve combined these two quotes…
“Change [doesn't] come at once.  It’s a wave… building before it breaks.”
~ Eddie Vedder, from the Pearl Jam song Undone
“Be the change you wish to see in the world.”
~ Mahatma Ghandi
… and together they show that while change might not be immediate by being that change you wish to see and making it happen, it will build over time and lead to your ideal future. We believe that there are changes that would make the world a better place and that each person truly can make a difference in this world. Rather than just talking about doing things in the future, each person can take action and be the change they wish to see.

III.    There are Three Stages in Life: 1) Learn, 2) Earn, 3) Return
It has been said that there are three stages in life: Learn, Earn and Return
1) Go to school to Learn
2) Move into the workforce to Earn
3) Return what you have made to the world through knowledge, service or charitable giving.

IV.    Don’t Work for Money, but instead Make Your Money Work for You so You Can Give it Back to the World
This concept made popular by many financially successful individuals, including Robert Kiyosaki in his Rich Dad, Poor Dad books, stresses the importance of owning assets that create income, rather than relying on earnings from employment alone.  We made it a simple goal to create a residual income stream that covers our living expenses and thus allows time and capital to be devoted to social service initiatives.

V.    Live the Life You Have Always Imagined
As Henry David Thoreau shared, “Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.” We firmly support this notion.  We have a limited time on this earth, so we should certainly live the greatest vision of ourselves that we can imagine and make the impact on the world that we so desire by giving back to others.

VI.    Work with Purpose, Passion, Profit
This was the tagline for Worthwhile Magazine, an awesome magazine that no longer exists. Jim Collins also describes this idea in his book, Good to Great
.  He concludes that for a business to be truly great, the company must find the point where three circles intertwine.  The three circles being:
1) The area where you are gifted where you can be the best in the world (Purpose),
2) Where you have the burning desire to make it happen (Passion),
3) and it makes economic sense (Profit).
We could not agree with this concept more, especially when it all leads to the real passion of giving back to others.

VII.    Share Your Love to Make a Difference
This one is inspired by three songs on Pearl Jam’s Yield
.  The amazing phenomenon of love is the more we share, the more we get back.  Inspired by the lyrics of Eddie Vedder in Given to Fly, “He gives his love, he just gives it away and love he receives is the love that is saved,” part of our mission is to go forth to love and serve the world.  With that love and desire to serve, we’re filled with the positive feeling of change:
“The whole world will be different soon.” – Brain of J.
..and the motivation to never give up:
From No Way, “I’ll stop trying to make a difference? NO WAY!”

VIII.    Never doubt, but rather have faith
Inspired by the words of Margaret Mead, “Never doubt that a thoughtful group of committed citizens can change the world.  Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”

IX.    Put Yourself in God’s Hands and Make it Happen!
We believe that everyone has what is needed to be successful in life – it already lies inside of each person.  A letter received from my grandfather seems to sum this up best, “I will tell you that God should be a major part in your life, and you should ask His help in handling your life with a good and happy heart to help you know the direction you wish to go and to help you achieve your goals… Use your many excellent qualities to help make your country and the world become a better place for all… You have everything you need to be successful.  Just put yourself in God’s hands and make it happen.”

X.    Go forth to light, love and serve the world!

Find me on Facebook