David Quisenberry

I experience life as a gift, and the journey of life as a shared adventure. My motivation comes from my faith and thankfulness for the gift of life. While I acknowledge some things are out of our control, I take ultimate responsibility for the outcomes in my life, and the quality of my relationships. I believe the choices available to me are limited only by my awareness. “I seek to choose loving relationships, simplicity, creativity, vigorous living, and virtuous motives.”

People describe me as energetic and naturally optimistic. I am hardwired to engage with the world. Testing our limits, albeit at the risk of life-size failures, are the stakes of a purpose-filled life. I believe fear is a prerequisite of courage, failure is the evidence of courageous endeavor, and this evidence is the only measure of my limits. Few things energize and trigger my feeling of aliveness more than the possibility to accomplish goals previously assumed out of reach, or the potential to be operating at a historical level. If it is impossible, it interests me. If it is just and virtuous, it motivates me. If we do it together, I am devoted.

I get energy from interacting with others and receive no greater compliment than to significantly and positively affect someone’s life. I look for the best and expect the best out of those around me. I believe I can influence the world and history most significantly by influencing the relationships closest to me. My personal mission is “…to invest myself in the individual lives of those closest to me with my time, resources, energy and love.”

I am personally responsible for the experience that is my life. I value personal responsibility in others. I choose to be increasingly self-aware by taking big bold bites out of life and learning through reflection and feedback. I value self-awareness in others. I am grateful for life and seek an abundance of life in my life. I value aliveness in others. I value high levels of transparency and trust in my relationships. Finally, my life, however big and exciting it may become, is empty without others with which to share it. My life, however small and simple, is full when shared with others.