About

LifeReboot.com is a site containing the thoughts and experiences of Shaun Boyd.

Shaun is a polite, soft-spoken, charming young man who left home in February ‘07 to seek positive change in his life.

Having grown up with a curious interest in technology, Shaun developed a keen understanding of computers. Those who knew Shaun had no doubt in their minds he would succeed in life thanks to his computer talents, and it was an understood assumption among his friends and family that he would attend college, majoring in computer science.

Never stopping to give the choice much thought, Shaun met those expectations and received his degree. Once in the working world, he fell into a distinct pattern: Shaun would start a new computer job, become unhappy within a few years, leave his job to get a different computer job, become unhappy after another few years, and so on.

Shaun’s unhappiness was always a result of how he stopped learning new things after spending a few years working in the same place. In every instance he would reach a point where his job no longer offered any new and interesting things to learn, leaving only the mundane repetitive tasks which made his job boring and his life unfulfilled.

One task Shaun repeatedly had to perform was update computer software. After software undergoes a significant change, it is necessary to reboot the computer. Rebooting gives the computer a fresh start to accommodate the change.

It was during one of these reboots that Shaun experienced an epiphany: Staring into his expressionless reflection in the blackened monitor, he realized he would always be unhappy in the computer industry. Although he made the choice to be in this line of work, there was no passion driving that decision. It was a mistake. He was miserable and needed to change. Shaun needed to reboot his life.

That thought incubated in Shaun’s mind and eventually caused him to create this website. Everything written on this site has been placed here to help raise your awareness — so that you can prevent yourself from making the same mistakes, so that you can be inspired to create positive change within your own life, and so that you can have the courage to reinvent yourself.