Welcome to my website. I am truly humbled and blessed that you would stop by and check it out. I would like to take this opportunity thank you and to let everyone know how this website (along with many other things in my life) came to be. It all started on a snowy day in January 2005…

On January 20, 2005 while leaving work, I was involved in an automobile accident. I had driven not more than a hundred yards when the crash took place. A driver of a mini van had turned left in front of me and we collided. I ended up sustaining an injury to my back and my car, well that came within a few dollars of being totaled out by the insurance company. Anyway, it was this incident that would change my life forever.

This one incident put my life into a freefall that would end up taking me years to correct. Over the course of the next few months my life would be thrown into one chaotic mess after another. Because of this I lost the most important part of my life, my marriage. I would then lose the second most important part of my life, my job. Although the accident did not end marriage, my wife leaving me for someone else could not have happened at a worse time in my life. Once that happened I went in to total state depression. Over the next year, I decided that I would make a fresh start come January 2006. My wife and I were now divorced (I could not believe how fast it was) and I was working at a job making $6.25 per hour. The year before I lost my job I was earning in the $60,000.00 a year range. So this brought even more stress into my life, but still I felt that this was the time to pick myself up, dust myself off and restart my life.

However as things go, this did not happen. I was still severely depressed and the holidays did not help. January came and went and so did the next few months of my life. I was still discouraged with the direction of my life and I had know idea how to fix it. I came to the one and only conclusion I could think of to end all of my pain. I decided that I was going to end my own life. So over the next few weeks I planned everything out accordingly. I donated a bunch of stuff to charities and I made plans for the big day. I never let anyone know what I was planning to do. In fact, my family and friends had no idea what I was contemplating on doing. I continued to be my usual jolly self so I would not let on to anyone, but inside I was screaming for help and I knew help was on the way.

As the day that I had chosen approached, I continued life as normal and finally the day had arrived and I was ready. I was prepared to finally end all of my pain. During that night I would have one of the most amazing realizations that any one man could ever have. I would have a one on one encounter with God Himself. At my weakest moment, I asked God for help one last time. It was at that instant that I caught a glimpse of something out of the corner of my eye. Lying on its side against the wall was a poster that had once hung in my home. My ex wife had bought it a few years back at a garage sale for fifty cents. Why it was there I don't know, because I had donated most of that stuff to charity. Anyway, I went over to it and looked at it and tears streamed from my eyes. I stared at it in amazement. I Knew right there and then in that exact moment that God was sending me a message. The poster I was looking at was the poem “Footprints in the Sand”.

From that moment on I knew that God was by my side in every situation. I ended up writing a few of my own poems that night and eventually those poems along with a few others ended up becoming my first book. The story of how my first book came to be is another moment in my life where God let me know that everything was going to be all right.

You see, I had put my poems together into little books and I gave those away as Christmas presents in 2006. I didn’t really have any money for gifts and it was inexpensive, but it was personal and that's what was important to me. My friends suggested that I should send them to a publisher to see what might happen. So a few months later I got everything together and I sent them off to a publisher. I also sent a copy to Pastor Joel Osteen, who graciously sent me back a copy of one his book about creating your own destiny. Then one day I was in the shower (excuse the visual) and I was talking to God. I asked God if my life was ever going to get better? It was then that I could hear Him speak. Though He said not a word, I could understand everything He was telling me. He told me that my life was going to change for the better. He couldn’t tell me when, because I had not lived it yet. He said it may be from a piece of mail I receive or maybe even somebody I meet on the street, but my life was going to change. So with that I smiled and took him at His word.

I reached down, turned off the water and took one step out of the shower when my phone started to ring. I hurried to dry off, wrapped the towel around me and ran to the phone. I answered it and the caller asked if this was Rick Dorociak. The first thing I thought of was “bill collector” and then I calmly said yes it was, and they said that this is the publisher that you sent your manuscript to and we would like to publish your book. I jumped for joy. I was so amazed and excited I couldn‘t contain myself. Oh by the way, I sent my manuscript to the publisher on March 8^th and received the call from the publisher five days later on March 13^th. So I guess God did know my life was going to change for the better very soon! Thank you God!

Over the next few years I would start a web site and write other books. Even though things were going well, I was still not moving as fast as I thought I would in the right direction by now. Then in May of 2007 God came into my life again. I had not seen my family in years (10 years to be exact). Our relationship had become strained (because of me) and we lost contact. Out of the blue I heard God tell me to get in contact with my family and to do it now! So being a message from God I did not hesitate. The problem was that I did not have my mothers phone number or address. I didn’t even have my brothers phone number or address, but for some reason (God) I could remember his office number, so I called it. When the person answered the phone I asked if my brother Mike was in. They asked who was calling and I said that this was his brother Rick. It was then that she said "Ricky, is this really you, we have been looking everywhere trying to find you". She was almost in tears when she told me to hold on and went to get my brother. When he answered the phone he asked if this was really me and I said yes. He then told me that they were trying to find me, because they had some bad news to tell me. He then proceeded to tell me that our mother had been diagnosed with breast cancer and it is not looking good. He then gave me the phone number where she was staying and I called her. Because God told me to contact my family I was able to speak with my mother for the first time in years. My mom passed away two months later on July 29^th 2007. Thank you again God for the opportunity to speak with my mom before she passed.

As for my books, I had sent a copy of my first book to my brother so he could show my mom. I had thanked her, my dad and my brother in the back of it. She was so proud. Then one day my brother told me he had changed his life because of an author he had met. I asked who it was and he said Neale Donald Walsch the author of “Conversations with God“. I told him to look in the back of the book and you will see Neale’s name in there. He was shocked. Since then my brother and I have grown closer. And as for Neale, I have had the opportunity to meet with him on a few occasions (and with his wife American poet Em Claire). He remains a true inspiration in my life.

So now I have multiple books that have been published (and a new one coming soon). I do seminars, book signings and I also do one on one sessions with people. Thanks to God I have found my true calling in life and what my purpose is. There is a lot more to my life, but I believe my real life started on that snowy January day when a crash would change my life forever. We all have that one incident in our lives that changes our course of direction. That was mine, what is yours? Email it to me and let me know. I look forward to hearing from you. Please send your emails to: Rick@RickDorociak.com. Thanks for reading some of my life story and I hope you enjoy the site. Stay blessed my friends...Namaste.