Finding (and living!) your passion

Do you live out your passions in life? Can you think back to when you were 11 or 12 years old? Think back to what you wanted to be when you grew up. Think about what it was you wanted for your birthday or Christmas that was totally tied to your young passion.

Now think about today and where you are at in life and ask yourself "Am I living out my passion"? What you were passionate about when you were 11 and 12 years old may not be exactly the same as what you are passionate about today, but the core idea should be very much the same.

My passion when I was 11 and 12 was just to be outside as much as possible. I wanted to play outside, act out my dreams outside, work outside, anything I could to be outside. So as I grew older and matured I made sure that my jobs in my younger years where outside. Painting houses for a couple years, construction and landscaping for 26 years. As got older I started to realize that my passion was not just about being outside. I wanted to figure out how I could help and coach people. I wanted to take my love of being outside and turn it into a positive for others.

I found out coaching and teaching people throughout my landscape career was away to further my passion for being outside. I coached, taught and trained people to form and amazing team that was able to come together and do great things with in the landscape industry. But it turned out I was missing a big component to my passion. I missed the play time part of my passion. I needed to fix this.

Big Tree Fitness. What could be better and more important than really getting people moving again like they did when they were 11 or 12 years old. Big Tree Fitness became one of my passions. It became more than just a gym. It is a big playground where we all could come to and go back to being a kid. We could play and make new friends. We could use the energy we create to fuel our passions.

It took a long time for me to come to this point. From the time I was 11, to when Big Tree Fitness was born is a span of 39 years. During those 39 years my passion for play and being outside has morphed into many different forms, but the core belief of my passion never changed. Live your passions. Make them happen. Remember death is the price we pay for life, make it worth it. Let your passions live and breath. They are a big part of who you are.