MY GUIDING PURPOSE AND STORY

MY PURPOSE

To do my best to make the world a better place.

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MY STORY

Born to two business savvy parents, my father, Owner of Zulanas Distributors LLC, and my mother, an Investment Officer/Trade Desk/Operations Manager at a company bought out by J.P. Morgan and Chase, I was raised to learn professionalism from a very young age. Despite his schedule, my dad managed to coach every sport I played through grade school. Time management and hard work were the cultural foundations in my household. My parents, keen on providing me with every educational opportunity possible, enrolled me in four sports a year, religious education, five to eight summer camps, and supplemental reading/writing/math education starting at age six. From my parents, I learned hard work, competition, and tenacity.

Employed at age 12, my first job was rolling, packing and delivering 300 newspapers every Friday evening, and this job extended through high school into my first week at college. After some initial coaxing from my mom, I became an intern journalist for this same newspaper when I was 16, having my first article red-lined during 3 separate drafts before it was finally published. After the initial success, I wrote 20 published articles for the newspaper and became a paid journalist by the time I went to college. At 17, I started a blog called “The Groupies Unite” providing over 50 instructional manuals for party games. School and professional pursuits focused my writing career on finance, education, grant writing, construction, philosophy, organizational design, innovation, and organizational change management.  I am really passionate towards the creative arts and share this passion with my wife.

I represented Colorado for the Junior Olympics in men's volleyball, earned the rank of Eagle Scout, placed 3rd in a regional speech and debate competition for original oratory, placed 2nd in the Rocky Mountain State Games for recreational table tennis, won the title of Mr. Teen Colorado Runner-Up in a state bodybuilding competition, won a state championship in Snowshoeing and Track and Field, received a Congressional Nomination to the Naval Academy, won the Southwest Regional 4x800 Track and Field Invitational representing the state of Colorado, became involved in 35 and 31 jobs and activities in high school and college respectively, won Arizona’s 2015 Outstanding Graduate for the Sigma Chi Fraternity, rediscovered religion, co-founded the Leadership Society of Arizona 501(c)3 to help high school students remove stress and guilt from their lives, learned from and worked for the world’s most successful consulting research group in supply chain and procurement services,  graduated with a M.S. Construction Management, B.S. Finance with Honors, B.S. Economics with Honors, and an International Business Certificate from Arizona State University, married my beautiful wife, worked for a boutique consulting firm, my wife and I had a daughter, helped build Loveland Logistics LLC, moved to Puerto Rico while working remotely for Loveland Logistics, started the Logic and Life Coaching Podcast, became a published author, started a Facebook Page, and now I have a son.

I recently published my book, Why You Should Keep The Commandments: Evidence Of God, The Bible And Research Benefits Of Keeping The Commandments, which provides proof that God exists, shows potential benefits of keeping the commandments, and may strengthen your relationship with God. God loves you so much and wants a relationship with you. You can purchase it here. 

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Food For Thought 

What is your life's purpose? How do you want to be remembered?