Finding Purpose and Meaning Through Discovery and Creation

It all started when I was a little boy…

And all along, it’s been a process of both discovery and creation together…

It began in very early childhood – watching my father workout at home – to keep fit and healthy. I could see he was so much more capable and happier than everyone else who didn’t exercise. His friends who were also into it would make the same impression on me when I would meet them.

I knew I wanted to be fit, strong and healthy – as opposed to how everyone else just let themselves get out of shape, overweight, unhealthy, weak, etc…

So as the years progressed I would follow his footsteps doing all the bodyweight things at the house, using some of the basic free-weights he kept at the house.. Venture into the gyms with him on the weekends (this was late 70’s, early 80’s).. And then in my teens, joined a local gym with a high school friend and was all in for real…

Through high school and college, I was the person everyone came to for advice…

I didn’t realize it at the time – I just thought people asked everyone for advice – until a close friend pointed it out. I seemed to know what I was/am doing more than most others in the training rooms and fitness settings. Cool thing was (and still is) I REALLY enjoyed guiding and helping people.

My early years of fitness were mostly for vanity, physique and competing in the teen years, early 20’s… and as time progressed and I was getting my Masters Degree in Exercise Physiology the shift to overall health, wellness and longevity started to resonate with me…

I could see that fitness was going to be one of the key ways our society would be able to save itself from decaying health and rising disease rates.

Forward a few years to early 2000’s – single dad, busy fitness business, and a crazy tight schedule, etc.., made me realize the common, mass-market approach to working out and pursuing fitness could not be a realistic part of my life at that point – and in realizing that also realized the common fitness approaches were not realistic, or desirable for most people either.

But I wasn’t throwing in the towel…

I actually took this as a challenge, a signal toward my calling.

My health, quality of life, longevity – and the example I wanted to set for my kids, and many other people, was far too important… So I had to ‘go inside’ and think about how to evolve my fitness methodology and philosophy to a state that could be understood, and followed, in the modern busy world of an adult.

It took a few years, but the evolution came about…

“I basically shut down my regular fitness studio and started doing all my training and client training on local playgrounds… The options were endless (this required some creativity), and every different playground was like a new gym…”

My workouts got shorter and shorter, my results got better, and many aches and pains I had in the gym disappeared. And clients loved training outdoors…

As time progressed I started thinking; “If there was a machine that allowed for everything we were doing on the these playgrounds – what would it look like?” So I began sketching ideas, etc…

And eventually had ‘the machine’, version 1.0 built (2009)… Friends would come over to workout with me and would say “you need to really do something with this – this is amazing” (a sign from the universe helping to reveal more of my purpose)

They were right but it wasn’t in the cards until recently, the last few years… I had version 2.0 built and then 3.0 (8 of them) for a women-only group wellness studio (SCULPTAFIT) that I opened about a year ago… I have a team that runs the studio, while I work on the marketing, etc…

But I dream big…

So, I want to open more studios, but I also want to offer the machines to end users to buy for their homes and/or offices.

And I want to have many people around the world follow my programs on the SCULPTABOD Genius Gym, and benefit from my unique methods via streaming video and DVDs – and for some to work with me 1-on-1 in certain “special assignment”, on location situations (busy celebrities, high-level CEO’s, etc)…

On a broader scope, with all of my current programs that are out there and available, I LOVE getting feedback and testimonials from people saying how much I’ve changed not only their mindset when it comes to fitness – but their actual programming, and ‘methodology’, in a way that now enables them to get results, and sustain them in an enjoyable and consistent way.

I know this is one part of my important mission, but there is more to grow out of this – it’s just not 100% clear yet…. time will reveal.

The key is for me to share my messaging and unique approaches, which includes a LOT of mindset weaved into things, via this blog, video channel and podcast… The content creation part is crazy easy for me – the challenge is time… . So I do what I can and let the universe take care of the rest.

Forward motion and positive progress is the aim. A little every day adds up to a lot.

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