About

Wow – does anybody actually read these about pages anymore? Anyway…

My hair is brown and my eyes are blue (both recessive traits in my family). I use my right hand and ‘right brain’. I’m of Dutch and Ukrainian descent. (Don’t ask and don’t laugh!).

I am an avid reader and believe in the concepts of ‘never eat alone’ and ‘a whole new mind’. I take my work seriously and myself lightly.

I tend to over eat good food and am a lover of great red wine, 100% agave tequila and fine, fast cars.

I like the web.  I like business. I like people. I really like people. And I also like a handful of other unrelated subjects that help keep me balanced and totally full of life.  Things like writing, cars, cigars, wine, food, fitness, the web, fashion, architecture, making money, art and a few other topics that get me out of bed early and keep me up late.

There is so much abundance and opportunity today if you have even just one passion, some focus and willingness to tinker with it.

While I wish that I had more time for blogging…my blog is comprised spaghetti thoughts and experiences of mine thrown on the wall of the internet where few people will ever see them.

And I don’t care about this. Because this blog itself is yet another passion and it is very likely that I’m writing for an audience of one. Me. I’m ok with that. It’s a rare month lately that I get to spend more than 45 minutes on this blog.

But if you are not me but interested in a little more about me, here’s what I’d tell you if you asked me about me:

I currently live in the most amazing place north of the US-Canada border…possibly even the world… and the only true desert climate in Canada – Kelowna, British Columbia. This produces some great wine and amazing weather and attracts some really cool people I’m lucky enough to call friends.

I earn my living primarily online  – as web video producer and sales process consultant. The web provides a very good lifestyle – one that I don’t take for granted.

It’s been difficult for me to stay away from a computer since my uncle bought me a 386 IBM clone in grade 10. It was a great follow up to the Atari, the ColecoVision and the Commodore64. While getting familiar with the computer, I failed algebra 11 three times and then realised algebra wasn’t going to work for me.

Ever.

As luck would have it, computer science was just being offered as graduation eligible credit. I enrolled and passed computer science 11 with high marks after writing my first program in Pascal which produced the highly original on-screen output of “Hello World”, thus allowing me to graduate high school and become permanently addicted to all kinds of technology.

That experience taught me a few valuable lessons which I never forget:

1. When you are failing, it’s usually because you’re rushing a process that can’t be rushed, or you’re not leveraging your passions or you’re doing something for the wrong reasons.
2. Don’t quit, success is usually closer than you think.
3. If the original flight plan isn’t working, be ready to change direction to get to your destination – there’s always another way and you’ll get there eventually, likely with some great stories to tell as well. It just takes more patience.And humans are inherently impatient.
   

If you have any questions, comments or subjects you’d like me to consider writing about, you can reach me here. Thanks for visiting.

I welcome your conversation either publicly or privately.

~Brooks Van Norman

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