Using 4MM Cord for Running Huaraches

Well, I get to take back my preference of leather straps as the perfect Huarache lace material. Over the past several weeks as I started using Huaraches in running more I have noticed that the between the toes pain and cutting feeling wasn’t getting better so I have opted to try something different than Latigo Lace Leather.

I went to REI and purchased some 3mm, 4mm and 5 mm cord. The cost was around $0.35 per foot and later I found that I could get that at 1/2 price at The Trail House in Frederick, MD so shop around. I settled for now on 4 mm but may experiment later with the 5mm. 3mm seems marginal as a thickness and might cut into the toes.

The first thing I noticed was the knot between the toes was way too large and making it small enough was going to be a challenge so I came up with this method that seems to work well. After a few days of wearing the Huaraches. The pain between the toes is greatly relieved and there is no cutting feeling.

Starting with 6 feet of cord, more than enough for any style tying, the first step was to cut the line and lightly melt both ends. One end I melted to a point to assist threading into the sandal. The other end just a slight melt so I could pull out the center cord material from the nylon sheath.

WARNING: Be careful and if you can’t be careful, have an adult help you, even if you are over 18 and think you are an adult but don’t act like one. Hot nylon sticks to your fingers and will cause burns! You have been warned.

Lightly melt end of cord using a lighter, stove or other method – See warning above.

Pull back the nylon cord sheath and expose about 2-3 inches of inner twisted cord.

Cut away 2-3 inches of inner cord and melt the end to stop fraying

Melted end of white inner layer of cord after cutting

Pull the outer nylon sheath out over there the inner cord used to be. Make sure you grab the cord up a foot or so and slide your fingers as you pinch the line, towards the modified end. Grab the slightly limp modified cord end and give it a good tug so all the outer sheath is pulled tight. Melt the end of the outer sheath.

Now tie a figure 8 not in the modified narrow end of the line. This will create a large enough knot that it won’t slip through the Huaraches sole yet will be small enough to not be felt when wearing the huarache. I then gave the entire knot a little heat and melted it slightly. Probably not a necessary step. Once the inner cord material is removed, the knot in the outer material is very tight and won’t come untied.

The Final product. I am satisfied with how they feel show here tied in the slip on fashion.

What I saw and what I see

What I should See

Bad Eye Morning 1/4/2010

What I am seeing today 1/5/2010

Someone Save my Eye Tonight!

Well, I learned a very important lesson and one that may have cost me big time.

For several weeks I have had some Sinus troubles and finally Last Tuesday I went in to get some antibiotics for what appeared to be a growing sinus infection. Then I awoke Wednesday morning with a pink eye. It didn’t hurt at all but it was red and by the next day it was vbery sore to the touch. I decided that since I was on a Z Pack I would just wait it out. (I tend to play doctor)

Well, Friday night I started seeing Halos around lights and the eye was worse so I went into one of those Urgent care places and they placed me on an eye antibiotic and said it should clear up. Well, Sunday it started to throb and Sunday night when I went to bed I had decided that I would see an ophthalmologist first thing Monday morning. Well, that was the right decision to late.

At about 3 AM I awoke and realized something was very wrong with my eye. Everything was hazy and the pain was rapidly increasing. I took some Motrin and that calmed the pain and I fell back asleep. At 5AM I awoke to screaming pain and was unable to see out of the eye except slight shadows and colors. I started making calls and talked to my POS insurance plan. Yes, the actual name of the plan is POS that should have been a warning. They stated this wasn’t an emergency and top be honest, there is probably nothing an ER could have done but refer me to a specialist anyway.

At 9 AM I camped out on the front door of an ophthalmologist and demanded he look at me. The minute he took some pressure readings I could see his affect change and he started whispering to his assistant and showing her things in my eye. That was the first indication this was a House type thing. The Pressure in my eye was 54 mm Hg and the normal is 17 mm Hg with 20 being high. After an two and a half hours, he was unable to relieve the pressure and I was off to a Glaucoma specialist. The pain was now off the charts and I truly believe I have matched childbirth, some may argue but I will stand my ground. My contractions were 50 times per minute because that is my heart rate and every heart beat felt like I had a butcher knife in my eye, forehead and temple and every beat signaled the knives to take a quarter turn. This continues for over 8 hours and meditation was my only escape. Finally the pressure was dropped to 15 and the pain started to recede and by 9PM last night I was feeling somewhat better although I am still experiencing fog in the eye.

What happened?
The Eye inflammation started from an unknown reason and snowballed due to the design of the eye, they don’t handle inflammation well. The eye, very much like the brain has a barrier that separate eye fluids from blood. When the eye gets inflamed, these barriers break down and the eye converts the leaking blood to proteins that are very sticky. The proteins stuck the Iris of my eye to the lens and that blocked the eyes ability to release fluid and pressure through the angle (valve) of the eye. The pressure builds up and then presses the iris even tighter to the lens. This is a snowball effect and as the pressure increases the optic nerve starts to crush and this is called acute Glaucoma and is a true eye emergency. Duh!

The drugs they used are slowly freeing the iris, it might take days or even surgery and steroids in the eye to eliminate the inflammation. The most interesting drug they used is Diamox.
Acetazolamide (Diamox): This is the most tried and tested drug for altitude sickness prevention and treatment.
I just thought that was ironic in some sense. What might save my life someday on high mountains may save my eye today.
As I know more, I will keep you informed but my warning. If you ever get pink eye, red eye or any eye issue, screw the general practitioners and ER’s and call an eye doctor. This went from a red eye to dangerous in less that a few hours I feel Sunday night, it is nothing to mess with.

It Couldn’t Be Done

 It Couldn’t Be Done
Edgar Guest

Somebody said that it couldn’t be done,
But he with a chuckle replied
That “maybe it couldn’t,” but he would be one
Who wouldn’t say so till he’d tried.
So he buckled right in with the trace of a grin
On his face. If he worried he hid it.
He started to sing as he tackled the thing
That couldn’t be done, and he did it.

Somebody scoffed: “Oh, you’ll never do that;
At least no one ever has done it”;
But he took off his coat and he took off his hat,
And the first thing we knew he’d begun it.
With a lift of his chin and a bit of a grin,
Without any doubting or quiddit,
He started to sing as he tackled the thing
That couldn’t be done, and he did it.

There are thousands to tell you it cannot be done,
There are thousands to prophesy failure;
There are thousands to point out to you, one by one,
The dangers that wait to assail you.
But just buckle in with a bit of a grin,
Just take off your coat and go to it;
Just start to sing as you tackle the thing
That “cannot be done,” and you’ll do it.

Back on the Snow! 25 years too late

So last Friday I did something I have not done for (I am ashamed to say this) 25 Years. I went Skiing.

When I was 5 years old my father taught me how to ski and by the time I was 12 I was a pretty good skier. In my teens I was completely unstoppable and then there was the “M” word. I was confined to a life of servitude and skiing was not in the plans. The last time I put boards on my feet was maybe 1983.

Now I had went Snowboarding twice in 2003 and that was totally different. The first time was OK but nothing I really got excited about and the second time put me in the hospital with a collapsed lung for a total of 12 days. But Skiing, that was my childhood passion. Man did I love to ski.

So there I was after 25 years, Laying in bed visualizing the slope, the skiing, the curves, the turns, the smells, the feels, Everything and it was as if I was there and never came down from the hills. The next morning I stopped by my buddies who owns a rental shop and he hooked me up with the best gear. I was nervous but the memory was all there. I could feel the slope. As I drove up the canyon in SLC I was very aware and bleeding of nostalgia. I was headed to the resort, Solitude, where I first learned to ski over 40 years ago. The hill had changed but a lot had remained the same. The little shack that stood at the end of Inspiration Lift (Long gone) was still there. The smells were the same and the sounds were all crisp. As I walked from the jeep to the hill the crunching snow gave me chills. All those years skiing came rushing back like a freight train and there I stood, at the lift line ready to climb on the lift. 25 years of talking myself out of liking snow melted like a snow cone on a hot summer day. I sat back and I was off.

The plan was to take a very easy beginners hill and make a few turns. Got to get the feet under me I kept saying but what I meant is I got to get the fear under control. I talked a lot on that first ride up the mountain, nothing much to do but talk. It cools the nerves, It defocuses from he fear. Then the top came and reality set in, It was time to deliver and I skied off the lift and stood at the top of the run. I looked at my friend that was there for me and off we went. I made a few turns and suddenly as if I was injected with super human memory, every cell in my body remembered and I started carving up the hill. Before i knew it I was hammering moguls, cutting the slope and tucking for speed. I WAS BACK!

By the end of the day I was exhausted, every muscle was burning and we made an intense 14 runs. All were on Blue or harder slopes and several were Black Diamond. In the end I had to fight back a tear just as I am doing now because I look at 25 years I went before I took this wonderful gem back into my life. I realized that all the years of telling myself I hated the snow were a cover for the pain of something I had purposely given up and now that pain is gone and I have moved one step forward. Another step towards the top of the world…

Into the Wild

Yesterday on a plane I watched the movie Into the Wild. Then today I saw this quote from Chris McCandless AKA Alexander Supertramp “So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more dangerous to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.” — Chris McCandless It really hit home as to why I do the things I do. It isn’t that I am another Chris McCandless groupie, hell, I just heard about the guy and as messed up as he was, his views on adventure and life seem very clear. He knew what he wanted and in the end realized what he was missing. More to come Here I am into my own Wild!

My intention for this site.

I find myself a bit at odds today. Maybe a little overwhelm and maybe a bit of excitement. Yesterday I found myself launching a new web site or should I say creating the initial blog and page. I feel like a painter or author standing in front of a blank page. There is so much to say but I haven’t a clue where to start. There is just so much to do and only 24 hours in a day. You would think 24 hours would be more than sufficient to accomplish such a meager task.
All my life I have been a bit of an adventurer. My very first book I remember reading was about Louis and Clarks adventures down the Grand Canyon. I remember sitting and reading that book and there was just no way I could put it down. I was so involved in the story that I could see the red canyon walls, hear the water rushing underneath and smell the smells of sage in the air. What a wonderful journey it was and how it so shaped my life. My father was also a major role in shaping me as and giving me the heart of an adventurer. He would my brother and I into the mountains above Salt Lake City Utah and we would hike to wonderful areas like White Pine and Red Pine lakes, Lake Blanch and lone peak above cool springs. We also trekked the Uintah Mountains on so many occasions scrambling up rocky faces and onto mountain tops. I remember the first time I stood on top of Bald Mountain (11,943 ft) and looked down on Mirror Lake. The skies opened up and you could see heaven from up there. It was so magical.

So what do those lovely childhood experiences have to do with this web site and me? Everything!

This is a story about the life of an adventurer and the tales will be told about the Past, the Present and the future. The story is still unfolding and you can be a witness to the outcome. In fact, you may have ways to shape the outcome itself. I will tell stories of past adventures and link you to pictures and more information. As I perform new adventures and feats I will update you about what I am doing and how I am doing it. And lastly I will talk about future treks and what I am doing to make them reality.
I will talk about equipment, what I use it for and how. There will be talks about Camera equipment, mountaineering gear, clothing, travel and any other thought or whim that pops into my mind. There will be days where I do not post. And there may be days where I post so often even I can’t keep up with it all. I want to figure out a way that you, the readers and the reason I do this, can be updated or notified when new events happen. As I figure this out I will give you’re the option to opt in and be notified.

How it all started, or should I say accelerated

Last spring I did a goals workshop from a Jim Rohn CD Set
I found this to be so power and it created some really great and powerful drive in me.

At first these seemed unreal an unachievable.
As time passes and I continue to look at it, Read it, evaluate it, clean it up and update it, it becomes more real and more me!

Here are several questions and their answers:

Name 5 things that I have already accomplished that I am extremely proud of.

1. Have a Wonderful wife
2. Purchased an Investment Condo in Hawaii (Kona)
3. Purchased an investment Condo in Roatan, Honduras
4. Acquired the level of Dive Master
5. Work Part time as a Dive Professional, for fun!
6. Gave up drinking 18 years ago after being a massive drunk
7. Achieved V.P. Engineering and director of R&D without a degree.
8. Making a great income
9. Learned to SCUBA, Finally
10. Traveled to Grand Cayman, Cozumel, Belize, Hawaii, Honduras many times
11. Own a Hummer H2
12. Made it to my Grandmas 90th Birthday
13. Took my Parents on a vacation to Hawaii
14. Took my in-laws on a vacation to Hawaii
15. Made it to UPW, Finally
16. Taught myself to program Computers
17. Taught myself to be an Oracle DBA
18. Taught myself Project Management
19. Formed my own corporation in Honduras
20. Started my Network Marketing business.
21. Own a beautiful home

OK, went a little over 5

Next Question, 10 Year Goals
List 50 things you want to do in the next 10 years, No limitations
This one got interesting becuase I made it to about 15 and had a brain cramp. I was unable to continue and then they just started flowing. Once they started flowing they got good, really good. These are ordered by year to completion!
You see several Nu Skin / Pharmanex Goals. These are my Main goals, My Focus and all other goals are somewhat Dependant as this vehicle offers me time and financial freedom needed to accomplish the other dreams.

Goal/Dream Time

1. Presidential Executive Nu Skin 1
2. SCUBA Instructor 1
3. Climb Moana Loa 1
4. Climb Halualai 1
5. Learn Spanish 1
6. Become an inspiring public speaker 1
7. Read one book per week 1
8. Maintain my optimal weight 1
9. Strengthen my body to the level that I have unlimited energy 1
10. Meditate Daily 1
11. Dive the Spiegel Grove 2
12. Be a leader to thousands 2
13. Have literally thousands of friends 2
14. Live in Kona full time 3
15. Team Elite, Nu Skin 3
16. Travel in China 3
17. Learn Mandarin 3
18. Run a Marathon 3
19. Travel to Palau 3
20. Dive Truk Lagoon 3
21. Travel Europe 3
22. Own my Dream home in Kona 3
23. Learn to Sail 3
24. 20% income to Charity 3
25. Visit Malawi 3
26. Help build a village 3
27. Ride a motorcycle through Central America 3
28. Meet Tony Robbins and have lunch 3
29. Dive a u-boat 3
30. Dive North Carolina wrecks 3
31. Dive Queen Anne’s Revenge (Black Beards ship) 3
32. Learn to Sing 3
33. Visit the Copan Ruins 3
34. Fish Alaska one more time 3
35. Own a Hummer H1 3
36. Speak at a Jim Rohn or similar event. 3
37. Have a full time Chef 3
38. Have a full time Maid 3
39. Have a full time Gardener 3
40. Teach young people in their teens how to achieve their dreams 3
41. Teach Goal Setting skills to youth 3
42. Climb Everest 5
43. Tour the Congo 5
44. Learn to fly a helicopter 5
45. Get pilots license 5
46. Climb McKinley 5
47. Financial Freedom 5
48. Travel to Thailand 5
49. Travel to Indonesia 5
50. Dive the Andréa Doria 5
51. Travel to Russia 5
52. Re-Learn Russian 5
53. Condo at Camp Bay Roatan 5
54. 100K Distributors in my organization 5
55. Ski the Alps 5
56. Safari in Africa 5
57. Surf Waimea Bay 5
58. Surf Australia 5
59. Visit Ayers Rock 5
60. Do a walkabout 5
61. Ford GT 5
62. Travel to Tibet 5
63. Visit a Buddhist temple in Tibet 5
64. Study for three months under a Buddhist monk 5
65. Dive in Antarctica 5
66. See the Great Wall of China 5
67. Trans Atlantic cruise through Mediterranean to Caribbean 5
68. Travel around the world in one trip 5
69. Take my parents on a really wonderful journey 5
70. Buy my Parents a home 5
71. Buy my in-laws a home 5
72. Write a book 5
73. Master the Guitar 5
74. Hike the Alps 5
75. Dive the Red Sea 5
76. See the Pyramids in Egypt 5
77. See the pyramids in Mexico and Belize 5
78. Be the Greatest Networker in the world 5
79. Ride a Motorcycle to all 50 States 5
80. Ride a Motorcycle Coast to Coast in 50 Hours 5
81. Own a 10 Acre coffee farm 5
82. Own a 60 ft yacht 5
83. Own a dive operation 7
84. Own my own dive boat 7
85. 45′ Sailboat 7
86. Own Jet 7
87. Act in a movie 7
88. Learn Japanese 7
89. Take all my family and siblings and their families on their dream vacations. 7
90. Climb seven peaks 10
91. Own 30 Million in profitable properties 10
92. 10 Million Liquid assets 10
93. play Guitar with David Gilmore 10
94. Have Lunch with Angelina Jolie 5
95. Rolex Submariner Gold

Yep, went over 50, I am an over achiever!

Who exactly is Scooter

I was born in Salt Lake City Utah. Utah’s a great place to be a kid because it has mountains, skiing, rivers, lakes, deserts and everything in between. I was fortunate because my parents are great loving parents as well. I was the kid who tore things apart and put them back together. Things like TV’s (The families first color TV), Radios, cars, or whatever were on my hit list. I was also climbing on top of everything and very creative.

I had one flaw, or so I was told, I got bored easily. In school I did not excel and I was different than everyone else. My parents were told when I was in the second grade that I would need “SPECIAL EDUCATION” because I would never excel but they were required to offer it. I read this as dumb! I was put in the “retard” school for some time and did not excel well at all. They sent me for a battery of test to find out what was wrong and nothing could be found. One teacher decided that I should take an I.Q. The results came back and everyone was astonished, I was off the charts. Of course, I knew nothing what that meant I just figured that I was dumb and could not handle school. They put me in a program called SRA. I have no clue what that is but basically, I worked at my own pace and in one year completed the entire K-6th grade packets. I was in the third grade at this time. Although this was a good thing, I guess, I was very discourages because I was different and set apart. By this time, the damage was done.

In high school, the story was the same. I was an “Underachiever”. It meant nothing that in the sixth grade I spoke good Russian and won awards a BYU for my ability. I was still dumb. I never really excelled other than in challenging classes like computers, chemistry, electronics and math. They were fun. My senior year I needed one English credit. I had played hooky most of the year smoking weed and drinking like a fish but when the chips were down, I studied hard and just in the nick of time I aced the final exam. The teacher said I was gifted and she had never met a student that had potential like I had. Do you think I heard any of this? Nope! I was DUMB! In 1979 I graduated by the skin of my teeth.

Right after high school, my high school sweetheart broke the news to me that she was pregnant. Yee Haw, Just what I wanted to hear. (Slight Sarcasm inserted), we were married and I was now on my own. I was a member of the local Volunteer fire department and it was there that I discovered they real joy of drinking. I found that I could run with the big boys, feel a part of something and serve a genuine purpose. The downside of this is that alcohol, drugs and whatever else I could find seemed to take away all the emotions and feelings I had buried so long ago but always felt. My drinking escalated to a level that would pickle even the best rock stars like Keith Richards.

My wife called me an alcoholic on every occasion she could find and my friends seemed to not like partying with me anymore. It would have made sense to stop the drinking at this time but it was more comfortable to just feel dumb again. By age 27 I was not doing much in the way of firefighting and my real job was very stressful. It was an important job running a major natural gas transmission companies pipeline system and any mistake could take the lives of workers and customers or turn a city cold. What a great job for a dumb guy! I worked shift work and one night I came home to find that I had been cleaned out. Everything but my computer was gone, Kids, Wife, Furniture, cars, everything! I was destroyed but in some sick way, set free.

My drinking excelled to level I never imagined possible and I lost everything else I owned. The house, my car, my motorcycle were all gone. All that remained was my girlfriend, my job and my life. I had a few weeks before the house was to be repossessed and I was laying on the couch when I saw an advertisement for a rehab center. It made sense and I checked myself in. Through rehab and AA I have not had a drink since March 14th 1989. It does work. However, this is really the beginning of the story.

Being sober was great, but in the process of getting sober I lost my job. I was fired in the treatment center. Nothing like getting let down slow. I had a lot of free time and was miserable inside. I felt like a major failure. I started college and completed one year but I felt so unfulfilled that it was pathetic. I dumped my girlfriend, who stood by me through all of this, for a sicker model. Once again, in my misery, I was watching late night TV when this annoying charismatic buffoon came on TV and started going on about happiness, passion and all this other crap I didn’t want to hear. That’s right, Tony Robbins.

For some unknown reason, I wanted the tapes. Personal Power was the program and I was able to get my mom to buy them for me. I could not afford them, heck she was paying my rent so I could live at that time. This turned out to be the second most important thing my parents ever gave me, my life being the first. In this program I found a way to erase, if you will, the pain of that past and convert it into power.

I completed the entire process and set forth some pretty wild goals:

Find a good loving woman who could support me in my dreams
Get a Harley
Fly an airplane
triple my salary (At the time I was at 10K)
Have a nice house
Own a helicopter (Got this one from TR I believe)
Get a good job (Honestly, I can’t remember what I was doing at the time)
Get a boat
Get a nice truck

There were others but these were the highlights. Within two years, I achieved every goal except the house, Helicopter and motorcycle. I carried these goals in my wallet for several years on a piece of paper and looked at them often. Later in life I would get that motorcycle and I still have it today. I have a beautiful house and a condo in Hawaii as well as a new Condo in Roatan Honduras. I sold the boat and my amazing wife was bummed. She liked the boat. It’s amazing, the two best days in a boat owner’s life are; the day you buy it and the day you sell it. I no longer needed the headache and someday, I am sure my wife will create the desire in me to have another boat. Now let’s move on to occupations.

I have a great job today. I am the VP, Research and Development / Engineering for a software company. For some time this title was my identity. Scary stuff because it’s an unstable world in software development. I started out just after I quit college as a nuclear physics lab technician. What a fun job, some of the times like when I got to play with reactors or build automation systems or develop software. But it certainly had a boring side and after some time the company downsized and closed. I was jobless once again but not defeated. AR principles were at work and I created myself as a software developer. Up to this point I dabbled in programming and had made some great strides but I was not a programmer. I beat the pavement selling myself to anyone who would listen. Not an easy task for a guy who had a low self esteem and not much skill in this area but I finally, after tons of rejection, found a taker. This company designed software for Option Trading and I was put over an Option Trading research project writing “C” code on a UNIX system. I knew a little “C” but I was clueless on UNIX. Basically, I faked it until I made it and everybody loved my work.

I left this company after two years because, through connections, Price Waterhouse Coopers had heard of my work in this area. Scary because I knew how to make a computer trade, I couldn’t do it myself. PWC paid me well to write risk analysis software and I was in heaven. But that heaven didn’t last because I grew tired of poor management and restricted ideas so I took another offer from a company that had heard of me through the same company that told PWC about me. This company needed someone to run their engineering department. They offered me a good income to start out and I jumped all over it, moved the family and the rest is history. Now I come full circle, I make substantially more than my original wage and I have achieved more than I ever dreamed possible. Then, I became complacent.

Always in the back of my mind was the desire to do the PPI tapes again. I bought myself a copy of PPII because I have no clue were those original tapes went. A month after I bought PPII and was in the process of doing it, I saw that same charismatic buffoon (I crack myself up and say this in a loving way) on TV while sitting in my Kona Hawaii Condo so I also bought me GTE. In doing PPII I have re-energized that fire within. I have new dreams, or have awakened old dreams, and want more from life. I have a passion for living and a desire to excel to levels that seem as far away today as where I am today would have seemed 14 years ago. I still have that same great wife and she thinks I am nuts but she supports me and that’s what matters.

Since the writing of this story I have added a few new chapters. On a sunny and muggy day in August 2003 I was leaving for work and while standing in my garage I got this really weird feeling that my house was going to burn down. Now whether it was premonition, some sign that I subliminally picked up or whatever the case, I have no clue but I arrived at work and at 10:30AM I received a phone call from my wife. The message was short and to the point, our house was on fire and burning to the ground. I cannot even begin to tell you the horror that dove deep into my soul.

I jumped into my car and immediately started the race home. I live 20 miles from my work and as I hit the freeway, I could see a huge column of smoke rising into the air to the north. About that time a friend and neighbor called me and told me that the house was a total loss and that the flames were going through the roof and there was a huge explosion. When I arrived to the scene there were fire trucks everywhere and the house was a loss. Everything I owned was in the house and it was all gone save a few items. The good news, nobody was hurt and life goes on.

I had been doing Personal Power, Time of your Life and Get the Edge in the past few months and it was time for me to step up and step up I did. I became the foundation that my family depended upon to survive emotionally and physically. I came through in flying colors.

Then in January, 2004 I was on a vacation to Salt Lake to visit family and friends when I decided to go snowboarding with my son. This was my second time riding and, although I am an exceptional skier, I was a poor snowboarder. On the first run of the day I took a massive wipeout that fractured my ribs and collapsed my lung. I spent the next 10 days in and out of the hospital and while in a hospital bed my brother in law presented me with an opportunity in Network Marketing with Nu Skin / Pharmanex. Being that I was so opposed to Network Marketing, it came as a shock that I actually entertained the idea. Maybe it was the morphine I was on. LOL.

That decision to join a network marketing company has raised my life to an entirely different level because I suddenly realized that for my business to grow I had to grow and it has made all the difference in the world. I have now been a distributor for Nu Skin for almost three years and I have been persistent through so many trials and growths. I have now become a great communicator and learned to sincerely love people and that is the biggest gift anyone can ever ask for. I have all the opportunity to make a difference in so many lives and when I wake up in the morning, I see pure possibility. It truly is a wonderful life I have and live.

I hope that my story inspires someone and drives them into action because that is really the key, action. I hope that someone will have a better life or that in some small way I can affect them positively. Today I know the importance of striving to be outstanding and helping others to achieve their best at the same time. They really are one in the same.

An Introduction

Hello! First and introduction is in order. My name is Scott but most people call me Scooter. I assume a little history is in order first and then we can talk about the purpose of this site and what you can expect in the blog going forward.

And Now, about me…