About
As an avid reader, I’ve always been interested about people’s lives and how they’ve influenced us. Everybody has a story of where they came from and how they were brought up to be who they are. One day, I realized that this is what I wanted to do, to write about people and inspire others with their lessons.
This blog will be an expression of my thoughts on ways to enlighten, inspire, and help people grow. It will focus on helping people become more conscious of who they are and what they are capable of doing. And although we may have heard about the successful people of our time, many of us do not know about the parts of their stories that have gotten them there.
This is what I wanted to share in this blog – ways to inspire people to get from bottom up with the help of the rising stories of influential people. More than 1000 people have visited this blog and there have been over 700 comments left between the kind readers that have stopped by and myself. Besides writing on this blog, I’ve also guest posted on a few of the more well-known personal development blogs out there including Pick The Brain, Advanced Life Skills, and The Change Blog.
Some things you might not have known about me is that I’ve been struggling with obsessive compulsive disorder for much of my life. This includes being overly worried about really little, nit-picky things that wouldn’t normally bother people in real life. In college, I was member of Alpha Phi Omega – a community service fraternity that focused on leadership, friendship, and service. Some of the services that we had to do included spending time and playing games with special adults, serving homeless people breakfast at an indoor community gathering, and helping people plant trees at a local park.
During the time I was in college, I was a copy editor for my school newspaper making sure that the content was clear of grammatical and punctuation errors before it was published and read by the students and teachers of the campus. I graduated from the University of California, Riverside with a major in English and a minor in creative writing. A few months after I graduated, I traveled to Taiwan and lived there for 11 months becoming a student and learning about the unique culture that goes on there. I became fluent in Mandarin Chinese.
Currently, I live in Los Alamitos, a small suburban city in Orange County, California. The city is also referred to as “The Little Cottonwoods” in Spanish. My hobbies are reading, writing, and just relaxing. I’m about 5’11, enjoy listening to jazz music, and my favorite food is pudding.
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