"I've been reflecting recently on why I don't have any followers. A lot of other people who have written less than I have, have all kinds of followers. I decided the other day that it is because the other people were trying to bring people to them while I've been trying to bring people to themselves." -Ralph Waldo Emerson in Self-Reliance

The Problem Is, Life's Too Small.

Okay, I realize that may not be a very good introduction, so give me a moment and I'll come back to the life's too small thing. I promise.

I Love My Life!

If you know me, or if you've talked to me for more than a few minutes, I hope one thing you believe about me is that I have a great life and I love just being alive and having these opportunities life gives us.

Of course, if you've ever been in front of me in a traffic jam, or if you happen to have worked for the recycling department in my city, you may not have seen my best side. I apologize.

But in general, I'm positive and enthusiastic and just so happy to be here.

Why I'm Here

Of course, I don't know exactly why I'm here; I could be way off in my guess. But I think I'm here to share my struggles and joys and the things I've learned.

I think I'm here to write and teach and help other people learn to love the lives they have and live the lives they're meant to live.

What I Do

Actually, I do a lot of things, a little of this and a lot of that and some of that over there. But my focus is on writing, creating and teaching. I write personal development books on various specific topics, share my learning with others, and take what I consider to be some amazing photography.

And that's who I am.

So Why Do I Think Life's Too Small?

I love my life, as I said. My life rocks, most of the time. But I know people, I talk to people, I see people who just don't have the lives they want. They're just not happy. And they think there's something wrong with them--that they don't have the right personality, that they don't do the right things, that they don't know the right people. But underneath all that, what they really think is that they are not the right people to have a great life.

These people are living too small. They're living in a world where their amazing gifts aren't appreciated. They're trying to fit in a box that doesn't fit them. And my job, as I see it, is to show as many people as possible how I came back from a life where I was barely surviving, literally deciding each day whether to live through it. How I came from that to where I am.

My techniques may not work for everyone. Some will work better for one person than others. And I might be wrong now and then. But my mission, my soul's purpose, is to share ideas that change the world, one person at a time. Even one part of the world, even just one person.

That's why I'm really here. To make my life speak.