I’m passionate about creating! Creating success for myself and other people; creating an environment of simplicity, peace, patience, positivity and motivation in people’s life and my own. I’m a goal-driven, opinionated, very decided and defined in many areas of my life kind of person, really live a simple life…no stress, no rush, no issues. I’m a programmer turned designer turned webeneur; love wireless stuff, eating slow, beatboxing, fluent in sarcasm, and my real name is Inigo Montoya. You Killed My Father. Prepare To Die.

As you can imagine by now, I like to laugh and tease. Bringing smiles to other people is important to me. I try to see the light side of all situations. I am curious about everything. I am always asking questions, and find all subjects and topics fascinating. I like exploration and discovery. I am an honest person, not only by speaking the truth but by living my life in a genuine and authentic way. I am down to earth and without pretense; I am a “real” person. Regardless of what I do, I approach it with excitement and energy. I never do anything halfway or halfheartedly. For me, life is an adventure! I work hard to finish what I start. No matter the project, I “get it out the door” in timely fashion. I do not get distracted when I work, and I take satisfaction in completing tasks.

I eat “real” food – fresh, natural food like meat, vegetables and fruit.  I choose foods that are nutrient dense, with lots of naturally-occurring vitamins and minerals, over foods that have more calories but less nutrition.  And food quality is important – I’m careful about where my meat comes from, and buy produce locally and organically as often as possible.

It’s not a low calorie “diet” – I eat as much as I need to maintain strength, energy and a healthy weight.  In fact, my diet is probably much higher in fat than you’d imagine.  Fat isn’t the enemy – it’s a great energy source when it comes from high quality foods like avocado, coconut and nuts. And I’m not trying to do a “low carb” thing, but since I’m eating vegetables and fruits instead of bread, cereal and pasta, it just happens to work out that way.

Eating like this is good for maintaining a healthy metabolism, and reducing inflammation within the body.  It’s been doing great things for my energy levels, body composition and performance in the gym.  It also helps to minimize my risk for a whole host of lifestyle diseases and conditions, like diabetes, heart attack and stroke.

I do CrossFit. CrossFit is a fitness program designed around the things you do in the real world. Every day, you bend down and pick things up, you put things over your head, you squat down, you stand up, you run after your kids or jump over a puddle. CrossFit prepares you for all that and then some by performing those exact movements in our workouts. It borrows exercises from things like weightlifting, gymnastics, and track and field, and we mix it up a lot, so your body is always adapting, getting stronger, faster, better conditioned. And the key to the whole program is that you work really, really hard… so you get fit really, really fast.

My favorite quote is:

“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 who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, 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 he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.”

~ T. Roosevelt