Who I Am
I am all about growth: from spiritual, to personal, to leadership development.
WHY? Because that is how you accomplish the dream, the vision, your destiny, your God-given purpose.
My focus is on people becoming more so they can live an incredible and significant life, leaving a lasting legacy.
Everything in life is better when you are better, when you are improving, progressing, and moving forward – A person like this is living at maximized potential.
The greatest obstacles in my life have been not knowing all the things to aspire to and not knowing how intentional you have to be about life.
As a younger man I focused on building a good name, being loyal, being a family man – all wonderful endeavors I still work towards today – but when it came to gaining higher achievement in the most basic areas, achieving my purpose, and focusing on the important things that affect us in every way, I didn’t know how to get there. I didn’t know exactly who I was and I didn’t know the boundaries of my life. As I grew older, I began to realize life is a puzzle and I quickly found out that I didn’t have all the pieces.
In 1987 I purchased the book Steps to the Top, by Zig Ziglar, and it contained a missing element: the message of growth and development. This missing piece showed me life requires personal improvement because improvement helps you take personal responsibility and it gives you ways to overcome life’s challenges and adversities.
This book was the start to a 30 year growth journey that has led me to this conclusion: Personal Growth Affects Every Area of Life.
This kind of learning has given me the clarity to define who I am and to know myself, it has given me the capacity to embrace more, it has improved the quality of my relationships, it has amplified the best of who I am, and it has ignited a burning passion to ever be a student and to share with others how to achieve real success.
People are struggling needlessly and this really concerns me. Inside of me is an incredible desire to see all people reach their full potential, this desire is such a driving force that it has been said I care too much – but this is me: I want you to succeed.
Everything I know and all I am learning I want to share with you.
My greatest accomplishment is my family. When I am not learning, training, or teaching, I am with my wife of 30 years, my two sons, my daughter, and my Maltese, Bentley – who thinks he is my fourth child (truthfully, he is).
As a John Maxwell Team Member, I have been certified and trained by the world’s #1 leadership and management expert to coach, train, and speak on personal growth and leadership development.
I am a part of an elite group of coaches, teachers, trainers, speakers and professionals making a difference and adding value to people all over the world.