I am someone who wants to live a happy, healthy, and fulfilling life while maximizing my own contributions to the flourishing and success of others, and as such, I write blog posts in order to provide inspiration, encouragement, and motivation for those who are struggling with workaholism and finding their purpose and path through life.  I hope to help others develop the courage and bravery to pursue their own passions and interests and to do what they love and will make them happy.  I am someone who has struggled with being a workaholic and being exhausted and beaten down by life, and I am someone who is seeking to improve his own life in any number of ways.

I enjoy traveling the world, and I have been to 49 states, 23 countries, and 6 continents, as I have a burning desire to increase those numbers and travel a whole lot more in the years ahead.  I am someone who feels a fierce sense of loyalty to family, friends, and the people I care about and who is willing to do just about anything to ensure their happiness and success.  

I am someone who believes in the value of connections and relationships, and as such, I work very hard to maintain friendships and relationships with a large number of people from several different parts of my life.  I am a former high school teacher who quit after working 85+ hours per week, having my job consume the entirety of my life, and essentially doing the jobs of multiple people everyday.  However, I continue to try to be a mentor to many of the students with whom I worked during my years as a teacher and who I still hope to help become happy, fulfilled, and successful adults.  I am someone who has a wide variety of interests, ranging from sports to classic movies to aviation to travel to entrepreneurship to podcasting to country music to history to geography to politics, and I am someone who wants to start an airline in the next decade and who has had a deep interest in airline route networks for almost 20 years.  

I am an introvert who enjoys getting out on the open road and exploring Texas and the rest of the United States, and I enjoy landing in a completely different part of the world and exploring the cultures, history, and geography that make each of those places what they are today.  I am someone who has been scammed in Thailand, had diarrhea in the Peruvian Amazon, gotten food poisoning in Costa Rica, and suffered from bad allergies in New Zealand and the South of France.  I have enjoyed staying in a bungalow in the Amazon and gazing up at the unpolluted night sky of the Moroccan Sahara less than six months apart, and I have explored the natural beauty of the Thai islands of Ko Lipe and Ko Phi Phi and the awe-inspiring aspects of the Louvre, St. Peter’s Basilica, the pyramids of Teotihuacan, the Sydney Opera House, the Great Ocean Road, and the fjords of Flam, Norway and Milford Sound, New Zealand.