Bio
A number of readers have expressed interest in knowing more about me personally. That’s fair, after all why should you tell me about your personal life if you don’t know anything about mine?
I guess my tendency is, not to talk very much about myself. The truth is, I’m more interested in you than I am in me. But fair is fair, so here goes.
As I think back, I recognize that I owe my parents a great deal of gratitude. From the time I was very small I was taught that I could accomplish anything I wanted to in life. What an advantage that one teaching has proved to be. Because of it, I have viewed my entire life as a great adventure full of promise and opportunity.
Many people spend their lifetime coping with the disempowering beliefs they were taught as children. As I work with these people to help them break those limiting thought patterns, I am constantly grateful for my own beginnings. Parents, please take note, make a choice to empower your children.
All my life I’ve been passionate about health and fitness, and exploring the limits of human potential. From a young age, I noticed that people’s emotions and accomplishments varied greatly according to how they viewed any situation.
Here’s an example from my own life: When I was seven, my parents told me I was adopted and explained exactly what that meant. I analyzed the situation and decided that it was an advantage. Why? Because I reasoned that my parents had a choice, and I was the beneficiary of that choice. Many who find themselves in a similar situation feel a big void in their life. To me it felt like a blessing.
Another advantage I had as a young person was that my mother was a self taught nutritionist. So while other kids were eating Sugar Pops, we were eating whole grains and taking vitamins everyday. As a teenager, I formed an affinity for working out and eating right, which continues to this day. Again, I consider my nutritional awareness to be a gift from my childhood.
By the time I was 21 I had escaped Southern California (no offence if you chose to live there), purchased a large tract of land in rural Southern Oregon, and set about building the life of my dreams.
How could I do all this at such a young age? Because I believed then as I do now, that nothing is impossible, and I constantly acted on that belief. That was more than 30 years ago and to this day, I still believe that life is a great adventure full of promise and opportunity.
In the course of those 30+ years I met and married the woman of my dreams, raise children, and explored personal growth and development on every level.
Throught my private Advanced Life Skills Coaching program and my public speaking seminars I have had the joy and privilege of helping a lot of people to overcome a wide range of physical and emotional challenges. Advanced Life Skills Blog and Website represent my latest adventure. This is my first attempt to reach beyond my local sphere of activity, using the Internet to share with people wherever they are.
Well, now you probably know more about me than I do about you. So I guess it’s your turn. Please, leave some feedback. Let’s do this personal growth and development thing together. If you want to send me a private message, you can leave a comment on any post and just write ‘private’ on your comment. All comments come to me for approval before they are posted, if yours is marked private I will not post it for public view.
Here’s to developing Advanced Life Skills together,
Jonathan Wells
PS. If you want to Google me, use mrjWells. As it turns out, there are a lot of other people named Jonathan Wells so to avoid confusion I have adopted the online user name: mrjWells
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Got your Facebook friends invite and stopped by to visit your site. Very motivational and inspirational writings. I’ll be back often. Thanks for reaching out!
Karen