Thomas Swift
Sitting on the porch with my roommates, I remember pondering aloud, “What if we approached life like an RPG? If we tookall the energy and hours we put into games and entertainment into ourselves, who could we become?”
Four college guys made a radical decision to cancel cable, stop playing games, and start being accountable to each other for real growth. We started leveling up our real selves for real life. I never stopped taking that approach. It’s made all the difference.
And it’s what’s behind LifeUp, today.
I love my life! I spend time each week celebrating with my friends. I enjoy a passionate romance with my life partner. I have four children who respect my leadership. I’m able to invest my financial wealth to work for me. I travel the world, engaging diverse cultures, and finding amazing adventure. My career enjoys success, yet doesn’t consume all of my energy. I’m excited each day I wake up, and I’m grateful for my health and the vitality to tackle any adventure I want to embark upon. I can honestly boast that I am fulfilled, I am joyful, and yet I press on.
I’m a life coach, because I genuinely want others to experience this blessed wholeness of purposeful living.
I’ve done careers! Got an early start in college at 16 to study psychology, philosophy, and religion. Traveled as a professional musician. Spent more than a decade in non-profits. Helped build a school for the deaf in Jamaica, drill wells in Kenya, pastor artists in a rapid-growth church, negotiate for peaceful cross-culture collaboration in the middle-east. Became a leader training leaders, impacting 53 world changing organizations. Owned a martial arts school, coached athletes. Pivoted to the corporate world. Built training programs, established operational excellence practices, led IT and AV management, guided enterprise systems architecture. Eventually became a consultant to Fortune 500 companies in analytics enablement, AI implementations, and operational transformation. Always learning and adapting.
Crashed hard along the journey! Not always pretty and perfect. At one point, money was scarce; my house was in foreclosure. At another point, a back injury left me unable to walk for months. At another, my marriage was two people with very different visions, and divorce was the way forward. Life isn’t easy. Yet, I learned, got back up, pivoted, healed, and moved ever onwards and upwards.
“There’s always a more excellent way.” I learned this axiom early in my martial arts practice. It pushes me to expand my knowledge, my skills, my mindset, my abilities. It’s helped me learn to adapt, evolve, to find the flow of energies that will guide me to the next level.
I’d like to show you how. Sharing all my secrets takes nothing away from the flow of abundance in my life. In fact, it only amplifies my joy to see others thrive.