The Story Thus Far…

Ideas are my lifeblood.

Ever since I was a child I’ve loved ideas that spark the imagination. When I was a kid, I would spend hours imagining riding on a pterosaur like the skybax riders of Dinotopia or theorizing how to make a working lightsaber or webshooters.

I thought I would grow up to be an inventor, because I loved imagining how technology could create the fantastic. That didn’t end up happening. But my love of ideas grew stronger.

I opted out of finishing college after 4 years of spinning my wheels. I couldn’t find anything that struck me as something I wanted to do for the rest of my life. I wanted more than just a day job and a secure paycheck.

During the last year and a half of my college experience, I came across a book called The 4 Hour Workweek. I was inspired by it and the lifestyle it said was possible, so I started experimenting and learning.

I learned about e-commerce, took a course on copywriting, tried selling my skill as a copywriter, and began making a card game. Nothing stuck until I found a mentor.

My mentor was a successful entrepreneur and set me to work reading the books that had laid his foundation. He gave me 11 books to read and told me to discuss each with him after I had read them. I finished them all in 3 1/2 months.

I devoured those books about achievement, about marketing, and about psychology. The principles from them, according to my mentor, would form a blueprint for creating businesses and products that captured their audiences. I loved learning these principles, and they did make that blueprint.

I’ve never been without a new book since. Books on finance, on positive psychology, and on building businesses have been the main ones, with several books simply for enjoyment mixed in.

I’ve tried many different projects and niches since then, including building a number of prototypes for a superhero card game and making a successful Etsy shop that sold miniatures of pop culture dragons (that did great, but hand-making dragons the size of a penny takes too much time for the return.)

At that point my sister, a teacher down in Arizona, met Cameron Soresby of Praxis. She recommended I email him and look into the program.

When I spoke to Cameron and continued to investigate Praxis, I found a community of people who love ideas and implementing them just as I do. People who take the ideas that light them on fire and make them happen. That was a group of people I wanted to work with and learn from.

Now I’m learning from this fantastic community how to bring real value to any businesses I work with, and improving myself in a systematic way. It’s fantastic.

So here I am, learning how to make ideas become reality. I love doing this. I think it’s practically a superpower.