I am married with 2 kids.  My kids are 5 and 6 (almost!) and we have been married 10 years.  I have finished my associate's degree and my wife is in her last year of Ultrasound school.  I will finish my MIS degree once she is done. 

I am a manager at a major corporation and for the most part love my job.  I enjoy leading people and am fascinated about what motivates people.  I can often give good advice and am good at helping people  achieve their goals, but I fail at following my own advice at times. 

Right now I feel like I am failing on many fronts.  My two major fronts right now are health and managing finances.   On the finances side I have taken a 40%+ pay cut and seem to have never really recovered.  It is not that we don’t make enough money; we just stink at managing it.  This weighs on me heavily and affects other parts of my life, no matter hard I try. 

On the other side health is something I am not proud of either.  I use to stay in shape well, but I haven’t worked out in a couple years and don’t consistently watch what I eat.  I don’t have any major problems right now, but it concerns me that I will have problems soon if I don’t change. 

I am a raging optimist, almost to a fault.  I see the good side of just about anyone.  I do have a temper, but strangely it is mostly only seen at home, I am working on this as well!  I read sites like Stevepavlina.com and other books but seem to only make small changes over long periods of time, and some of those relapse. 

I have high aspirations, I don’t want to work for another company and want they day I quit this job to be the day I work for myself. 

I fully believe I will make it to the next step, I just don’t know which way to turn right now!

I was born in Las Vegas and lived there with my mom until I was about 13.  It was mostly just me and my mom for the early parts of my life and then we lived with my first step-dad in vegas for several years. 

After they split up my mom met someone else and we moved to PA.  I did most of my growing up in PA and this felt like the most normal part of my child-hood.  My stepfather was a good person took on the father role quite well.

After highschool I joined the Air Force.  I was a computer-tech in the Air Force for 6 years.  During this time I met my wife.  After the Air Force I worked for Sprint in Kansas City for 4 months before being layed off.

From KC we moved back to Oklahoma and I got a contractor job making pretty decent money.  I did this for 5 years before taking a 40% pay cut and leaving that job to work for my current company.  I started on the phones and was promoted to manager after 1 year.  I have been managing at this company for almost 2 years now.

I want to move up the management chain a couple times before I leave this company.  My goal has always been to get myself ready for business ownership.  At the time I need to work on my personal relationship with money and manage it better.

While working at my current company I will start several online businesses.  I will likely fail at many while learning but one will succeed to the point of it making sense for me to leave my "normal" job to work on my own business full-time.  I will start several businesses and have several successes mixed with the learning experiences.  My businesses will grow to the point and be flexible enough that I can mostly set my own schedule and do the things we want to do as a family.