I have spent hours, days, weeks, and probably years of my adult life pursuing knowledge about human beings and the way they (we) tick.  People enthrall me for many reasons which is why I have dedicated so much time learning about our race.  In deciding what I would do with my life I had to weigh my options.  I spend so much time agonizing over what I was good at.  I wanted to know what the most important skill was.  Like any young adult trying to make their way, I really wanted to find out where the money was.  I am fairly tall but lack speed.  I am in great physical shape but lack coordination.  Sports unfortunately became eliminated quite quickly.  I finally decided to get serious.

I kept on playing sports, knew I would take tremendous life skills and lessons from the field, and spent much of my spare time reading business books.  This was all of course in the 9^th grade.  Do not mistake me for some kind of whiz kid with a genius level IQ.  This was just the beginning of something special.  My grades never wound up being so great.  I was quite arrogant as a youngster and thought for sure I knew more than my teachers ever did or ever would.  I went to Community College, passed the time, and found myself accepted into a State School that was well regarded in the area.

After 4 years of college, I paid over $20,000 to find out what I already knew in the 9^th grade.  It was not that I was too smart, or that I had invented the next big thing.  No, I simply was a square peg being shoved into a round hole.  I did not want to work for Corporate America.  I had no interest in the everyday vocabulary of pensions, social security, and job security.  Work hard, retire when you are 62, 67, 75, or whatever age they promise us never made any sense to me.  You see, age does not really have any meaning.  We are not promised tomorrow, let alone 62 years of age. One of my father figures growing up was in phenomenal shape.  At 69 he could still get out of the water on one ski.  For those who are familiar with water skiing, this would sound pretty darn impressive.  All is life he ate well, worked hard, made an exceptional career for himself and with it came plenty of money for he and his family.  He retired at 69 and planned to see the world.  As fate would have it, 71 came along, and so did cancer.  2 months later he passed on and left a hell of a legacy and many lessons for those of us who loved him.  Age is relevant only to how long we live.  I am very “young” in my early 20s.  If I die due to whatever the circumstances at 30 then really I am currently old and have only a little over half a decade to leave my footprint.  To build a legacy, a family, and relationships with people I hope to effect in positive ways.

This probably sounds a little bit negative and I promise I will tie it all together with a very positive message.  I simply want to give my journey in discovering the mindset necessary to thrive in life.  Once I received my formal education, and my ticket to employment, I rebelled.  No, I did not go get tattoos, go on drunken binges, or anything of that nature.  I simply did not seek out full time employment or a job with “opportunity to move up.” What I did do, was dive head first into finding the skills I needed in order to matter to people who matter.  I believe all people matter so this was sure to be a challenge.  Creating value in life for other people is so challenging.  Everyone values different kinds of things.  Some value small things in life while others practically worship the largest and flashiest.  None of course are wrong as we cannot decide what matters to someone else.  What we can do is try to help people reach what they want to reach in life.  Every human being wants to feel pleasure, avoid pain, and gain recognition.  These things drive our lives without us consciously knowing it.  When you decide not to ask your boss for a raise, it was because your perceived pain of rejection outweighed your perceived pleasure of acceptance.  After reading hundreds of books, listening to webinars, seminars, audio books, audio tapes, and doing self-improvement exercises, I found many answers to many questions that I had had.  I also took on the challenge of network marketing.

This time period of my life changed me forever.  Any employee values I still had left in me, died.  They have not risen from the dead, nor will they.  I have become certifiably unemployable by any other man or woman on this planet.  My life as I knew it was gone.  My new beginning was the most exciting time of my life.  My reality was my fantasy.  I was still broke in terms of money, but wealthy in knowledge.  My outlook was positive and never negative.  My energy went from that of an older male, to that of a young child.  So too, did my imagination.  Public schooling steals our creativity.  They reel in our dreams and crush them with terminology and sayings such as, “reality”,”realistic”,”patience”,”work hard to get a good job”, “build your resume”, and other detrimental language.  By no means am I putting down working at a place of employment.  Surely, this is a great way to make a living for you and your family.  I just want to see to it that dreamers and creators like me are not suffocated and molded into something that we are not.  If you are an employee and comfortable as one, I promise to still deliver you value.

After researching as much as I could and jumping into network marketing, it was time to build my career.  This is where we finally bring in the most important word in my language.  Mindset, defined as an attitude, disposition, or mood, is something that many people passively hear about, but very rarely make a conscious effort in understanding the power of it.  An even better definition comes from the great Jim Rohn who is one of the greatest influences in my life.  If you do not know who he is, my hope is that you change that right after reading this post.  He changed and touched so many lives in his incredible, legendary time on Earth.   I am honored to even write his name in my post.  Mr. Rohn said, “Don’t wish it were easier, wish you were better.”  You see, everyone falls on hard times.  Everybody comes across opportunity.  We all have to decide how we react to both occurrences when each should arise.  When opportunity comes, it does so in the form of a vehicle.  Usually this vehicle is one we have never driven.  We can either decide to pass it on by, or learn to drive it.  Sure, there will be obstacles to drive around.  Sure, the weather will get hot and probably even cold.  The only variable we can control is ourselves.  Have you ever heard so many success stories about rags to riches that you begin to wonder if anyone ever went from riches to riches?  How many times do we see someone with all the odds against them rise up and defeat them all?  The reason is that almost everyone has a story.  We all faced challenges in our lives.   Everyone faces adversity at some point in time so we can assume that everyone who is rich and everyone who is poor faced similar challenges.  Are some more blessed than others?  Yes.  Many times the most blessed ones fall the farthest in life.  It is not what we have happening around us that defines us and what we become.  Our decisions do.  Our decisions are directly influenced by our mindset.  Tony Robbins, another one of the people I model my life around said, “Life will pay exactly what you ask of it.”  By asking life for something, we are not asking for a handout.  Asking life for something is really a metaphor of your actions.  By asking life for riches, we must be pursuing the knowledge and education to help us reach it.  If you lay around on the couch, never challenge yourself, sleep in, drink every night, constantly play hard, work little, and participate in bad habits more than you do in your daily disciplines, you are asking life for very little.  We ask what we want from life through are actions, which come from our decisions, which are made from our mindset.  Whether we build a small house, medium sized building, or a skyscraper, we always start with the foundation.  Through this website, I will give you the tools, reading, videos, and suggestions to help you build the number one foundation in your life.  You must build your mindset before you can build anything.  It is my goal to help you breakthrough.  Good luck and enjoy the site.