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Where to begin in a sea of wildly qualified applicants?

It feels somewhat vain talking about yourself in this fashion, but in this instance if I don't who will?

So here goes:

2009: Most recently, Nike Europe has licensed and is currently using a slogan from my personal training business (www.BravoFitness.net or www.HaveAStrongDay.com) in the Women's market in Europe beginning this spring (www.NikeWomen.com). The slogan is "HAVE A STRONG DAY." It is tied in as a headline within their "Here I Am" campaign. I am thrilled beyond words that a saying I developed to inspire people to live to the fullest is being taken to the public through the vehicle of one of the largest fitness companies in the world. I can't wait to see how the public at large responds to it.

2008: Last summer I was a semi-finalist in Southwest Airlines Blog-O-Spondent contest.

2007: I was a semi-finalist of sorts in the aussieBum amateur model search.

In my current job with www.TobaccoFreeFlorida.com, we spend time traveling, working with all ages, shooting video, doing interviews and writing / blogging about our experiences in regards to encouraging youth to not become addicted to tobacco and encouraging those that have been using tobacco to put it down and free themselves from it. Our campaign has shifted from "I Care. I Don't Smoke." to "Be Free," a more encompassing effort to encourage everyone to not be held back in accomplishing their goals and maintaining their health and wellness due to tobacco addiction. I suppose it applies to more than just tobacco though, which is a good fit for me as that is what I was already doing with my personal training business / clients.

I am only concerned with one thing:

Finding and fulfilling my purpose on this earth.

I suffer for my passions -- of which there are many -- and I'm engaged 24.7.365 in the relentless pursuit of finding and fulfilling my destiny on this earth according to the following quote:

"It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly...who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who have never known neither victory nor defeat."
- Teddy Roosevelt

I make transitions as easily as most people change pants. Why? Because life is all about transitions and making them smoothly. Why? Because sometimes we hang on too long in a situation in which our work is done and we are being guided on to the next "thing" to influence -- hopefully positively.

I am thrilled to even be a part of this contest. And that is not a trite or insincere statement. Even if I'm not selected, I'm one step closer to the next big thing with each endeavor I undertake.

I am in the process of shooting a workout video that will hopefully inspire and motivate. The name of which is top secret at this point, but I assure you it will never be forgotten once it gets inside your head.

As for the island experience, I need it based on the following quote:

"Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul."
- John Muir, American conservationist, naturalist, writer and scientist

As for my life experience, I will never be stationary and stagnant. Its not in my DNA. I will not repeat the same routines every day, week, month, year until I am no more. Life has too much to offer. And if I can live in such a way that it motivates others to do the same, then my life has been a success. See the next quote in this regard:

"Yet thus life rolls away with too many of us in a course of shapeless idleness. Its recreations constitute its chief business…amusements are multiplied, and combined, and varied, to fill up the void of a listless and languid life; and by the judicious use of these different resources, there is often a kind of sober settled plan of domestic dissipation, in which with all imaginable decency year after year wears away in unprofitable vacancy. Even old age often finds us pacing in the same round of amusements which our early youth had tracked out."
- William Wilberforce, Leader of the movement to abolish the slave trade

I wish everyone the best in their BJITW endeavors. However you slice it, it takes guts to even enter and I respect that. Nothing is accomplished without passion and nothing worthwhile is ever easy.

Have A Strong Day,

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