Influences from writers and speakers such as Earl Nightingale, Napoleon Hill, John Maxwell, Tim Ferris, Joyce Meyer, Billy Graham and Chip Ingram. Those are just to name a few that come to mind.

I grew up in a Christian home and still hold those values to this day. I believe God's greatest gift to us (outside of salvation) is our mind and our free will. We have brains and I try to use mine everyday to learn something I did not know the day previous.