Dr. Lawrence Klomps III, MD

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Hello!

My name is Dr. Lawrence Klomps III, MD, formerly known by my endearing and enduring street name in Hershey, Pennsylvania, "White Chocolate." More on the origins of this fun nickname later!

Anyway, you're likely here because you are seeking to become your better self. I would like to be your guide to help you along your journey. Chances are you want to improve in one of these domains: health, wealth, or relationships. You may also have a ton of goals, long to-do lists, and feel like you're treading water sometimes. So how can I help?

TLDR version:

I grew up poor, neglected, and abused

I stayed ENGAGED in my goals

I became a physician

I had trouble with bad habits

I am sharing my system for overcoming challenges and forming new habits that propel one towards their best self.

This system will help you endure the highs and lows of working towards any valuable personal goal.

Verbose yet concise version:

Well, honestly, I never considered myself the sharpest tool in the shed, but a disproportionate amount of adversity since I was a boy has proven me to be a durable one. Nonetheless, it takes some durability to achieve the things we set out to accomplish. My goal since I was a child was to become a physician. Given my upbringing, I am an anomaly.  Statistically, I should have succumb to the environmental pressures and continued a lifetime cycle of poverty. Instead, I set out to escape fate and ENGAGED in my ultimate goal.

Growing up, I was raised by a single mother with unfortunate disability due to domestic violence. The hospital was our second home and there was a recurrent theme of abuse woven into our family's life. We were impoverished, necessitating me beginning to work at the age of 10 to support my family. Starvation was often, fear in good supply, and the odds stacked against me.   Being at rock-bottom only gives you one direction to go: upward and onward. 

Despite the chaos in the background, a special sense of purpose brought me to medicine. When I could help limit the pain and suffering of others, it eased my own. Community service became a staple hobby. Luckily, that altruism paid off in the form of wonderful people serving as my guides to make me a better and stronger person.

So with that said, I was by no means an expert on self help in my childhood. In fact, I only became attracted to self improvement in these recent years when bad habits from my childhood began to interfere with my present goals. I grew up in "survival mode" as a child and still continued those survival behaviors as an adult, which left me desiring a stress-free lifestyle. 

For better or for worse, our habits shape who we are over our lifetime. We are the average of our daily rituals. I was once overweight because, on average, I ate unhealthy food. I was constantly broke (and still recovering) because of many small poor financial choices. I failed several of my partners and friends because of poor choices harming those relationships. After doing a careful root cause analysis of these behaviors, they all traced back to poor childhood habits that made daily survival easier, but not sustainable as an adult.

Therefore, my mission with this website is to provide you and myself a framework we can always turn to for lancing the wounds, picking up our worn tools, and becoming ENGAGED with our goals. Too often we dream some awesome things that never come to fruition. Why? Because we get distracted by the background noises: our phones, our guilty pleasures, and our negative emotions that creep up and hinder what we set out to do. 

With this course I am building I hope to give you a system that brings you positive outcomes and advances your goals. In order to do this, we need structure, discipline, and a tunnel vision that keeps us ENGAGED on a few distinct, valuable goals.

Thank you for your time. I hope you feel that I am truly invested in your self development. I know we can do it together.

Kindly,

Dr. Lawrence Klomps III, MD