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I enjoy answering the question, “So, what do YOU do?” almost as much as my three children dread responding to it. Their dad’s nine to five defies any conventional answer - every fill-in-the-blank, every “circle the appropriate category” and “check the right box”. Hell, I’m not sure I know how to define what I do justly.

I dream creativity- I sleep, breathe, and eat creation, often to the detriment of my home life and the exasperation of my wife.

I am an inventor, a product developer and director. And there are few tasks

I haven’t undertaken to bring those creations to market and success.

I have hawked merchandise on the streets of Capitola, moved over 50 million units of product in a single year, founded the fastest growing guitar-pick company in the world, defended my designs in federal court, advised a major network channel on “American Inventor”, and packaged the totality of my life’s experiences into an eight hour seminar. I have succeeded and I have failed profoundly.

I am a motivational speaker, a mentor, a patent holder, a small business owner, a Disney licensee, a salesman, a president, and forever, a starving artist at heart.

I am a jack-of-all-trades and couldn’t have it another other way.

If this pseudo biography seems sporadic and a little random, it’s because it is. I have never held a “job”, in the typical sense anyway. My work has continued to morph and change direction over the past twenty-five years, and what I’ve written for you here is a mere slice of the adventure.

I am fifty year-old self-made man and can genuinely say, I love what I do. And now, I’m here to share that love, that passion, and the lessons I wish someone had shared with ME, with you.

I look forward to making weekly posts on PatentHelpBlog.com and I hope many of you will take the time to comment on the articles I post.

This blog post courtesy of Stephen Key’s “Invention And Product Ideas” blog on AllBusiness.com . Also note that Stephen’s inventRight.com web site gives free tele-seminars every other week.