I live to inspire people to have more confidence and a better self image. My clients have made me evolve into a motivational speaker. I love to inspire, motivate, and inform through writing. It seems that in the past as I would just let thoughts ooozzzz out with out any planning, that they were always coming back to the same hurdle, TIME.

I believe that all my clients issues with fitness/fatloss were always dancing around the same topic. TIME--We all have the exact amount-1440 minutes every day. But what is not the same is our perception of time. Depending on which study you believe, the average person now spends over 4 1/2 hours watching television. The old saying that perception is reality is very true. There is no reality, only everones perception of it. Everyone is right in their own mind.

The art of delayed gratification is a lost art. The "good things come to those who wait mentality" is all but gone in todays fast paced, technologically advance modern era. Things are advancing and dizzying speeds. PLEASE LISTEN-- Lets KISS, go back in time to a simpler era. If you absorb one idea from this e-mail, go to church on Sunday with your family, and don't do anything the rest of the day. Nothing for the entire day. If you can force yourself to do this one thing, I believe that it will change your life. Relax, back off, and you will be surprised how things just have a way of working out on their own.

Maybe the magic in the art of delayed gratification is the fact that it is what we learn on the way to the end goal. How can we use that experience or knowledge in the future. We are never as fulfilled as we think we will be when we get to the destination (goal). The trip is much more valuable. I believe that everyone is trying to shorten the trip, they are not learning or enjoying, and are continually disappointed. I now know that my quest (very diligent and consistent since 1981) for a muscular/lean build with out taking drugs or most supplements (one of my kidneys was polysistic and removed at the age of 2) has been a blessing in disguise.

In the past when I was tempted to take drugs to become a professional football player or body-builder, I was discouraged thinking that I was less competitive. I now realize that what I thought was my biggest liability is absolutely my biggest asset. I now inspire 1,000's of people to live a higher quality life through fitness/fatloss/healthy life-style.

What I have learned in my 24 year quest of an athletic body is what I am sharing with everyone. If I would have used drugs I would have been living a lie, and I would not have learned nearly as much about how to be well balanced and thrive in life through fitness. Let's walk that fine line together between being incredibly driven, focused, and goal oriented and backing off and living serendipitously.

Four and 1/2 years ago I was in my 18th year of driving a truck (Christmas was my least favorite time of year/UPS) making $60,000, to a fitness club owner/speaker/writer making $300,000 (projected this year) to (I can't tell you what I will be doing in one year from now or else I would have to kill you) making "ONE MILLION DOLLARS PER YEAR" by 2010.

I tell you these things not to impress you, but to impress upon you that anything is possible. Life is not about money, but it is. Money is not good, it's not bad, it only excentuates who you are. If you are a good person, it will allow you to be a better person, and vica versa. Don't let money rule your decisions. Just open your mind a little, hang around who you want to become, and slow down and take care (rest, work- out, and eat quality unproccessed food) of numeral uno, (thats you).