Liberty

Freedom is the number one most important thing to me. I’m not talking about the red, white, and blue Fourth of July barbeque or just my “constitutional right to own a firearm.” I’m talking about being free in all ways. Free from worry, stress, authoritarian governments, strict laws, dogmatic assumptions, debt, unhealthy relationships, cultural indoctrination, restricting borders, terrible circumstances, and essentially anything that inhibits an individual’s ability to do what makes them feel alive.

My mission is to liberate as many people as I possibly can. This is why I intend to go into education and why I ultimately intend to work for Praxis. While I’ll focus also on liberating people from stress, worry, and emotional turbulence, I think the best place to start is liberating them from the illusions they’ve told their entire life, the schooled permission mindset, and the mental barriers that stop them from being spectacular. Working for Praxis is the most effective way I’ve found to liberate people from their own minds. 

Freedom is the only moral I can stand by. The image of human beings operating in pure liberty is the most beautiful thing I can imagine. It’s my goal to liberate people through education, coaching, and ambitious ways of changing the world that will one day be revealed. 

Education

Nothing makes me feel alive like changing someone’s life. When I spend hours working with someone to help them move forward with something and I can tangibly see their progress, my heart sings. Guiding others toward new discoveries fills my soul with goodness. 

I don’t want to be a school teacher or a professor. With how things are now, I wouldn’t wish that upon my worst enemy (and most teachers would agree; they’re just more willing to work in that environment than me). I want to work to change people’s lives through education. I don’t want to shove knowledge and facts down people’s throats. I want to be more a tour guide of new discoveries than a teacher or mentor.

Education is my way of liberating people. It’s the most effective way I can find to make people free.

Making Communication Beautiful

This is how I actually do what I talk about doing. There are a few different ways I like to make communication beautiful.

The first is writing. It’s what I love. Written communication is so spectacular because it’s… permanent, in a way. It’s a way to deliver your thoughts to another so that you’re entirely certain of what you are trying to deliver. Even more, if it’s not understood, it can be reviewed over and over and over again. I love writing blog posts, social media posts, emails, texts, journal entries, marketing campaigns, plans, and more. I believe writing can change the world more than almost any form of communication, even if writing is later communicated aloud.

The thing that can really excite me is verbal communication. Creating a flow of conversation with another person is something that seriously gets my blood pumping. I can talk to almost anyone for hours at a time if there’s value in it, and I love it. Connecting with people on a higher level may be my number one favorite acivity.

There’s photography. I’ve neglected it lately, but I still hold it dear to my heart. As they say, a photo’s worth a thousand words. I’m not an ultimate pro by any standard, but I know my way around the photography world. Photography is my pleasure art. I take photos because it’s fun. Luckily, it’s also a skill that can be frequently leveraged in my industry.

Design is something in which I have miles to learn, but I have found immense utility in even having a semi-decent design skill set. Graphic design is extremely enjoyable, but also an almost essential skill for many fields today. Web design a little less so, but still incredibly useful. The most important part is knowing the fundamentals of what makes something look… good.

Marketing is a way of using almost all these together in beautiful communication to convince people that I’m worth listening to. I don’t think marketing is given enough credit for being the art it is. Manipulative salespeople and exaggerative business claims have given the world a bad taste toward marketing, advertising, and sales, giving it the reputation of being fundamentally deceitful. The truth is that the marketing process, from lead to customer, is a thing that requires such delicate planning that if it’s done with the best intentions, it could be called an art.