Career Balloon

My 2024 Career Mission Statement

You can have everything in life that you want if you just help enough people get what they want. (Zig Ziglar)

Some of my Career Mission Statements over the decades.

My career will not define me!
My current job is not that important - it might be beneficial to change.
Money will not be my motivator.
It’s only a job!

I had already been living my life investing in others through coaching, teaching and discipling but never fully understood that Zig’s words were already being lived out in my life’s mission. My career summary includes investing in children, youth and adults on the athletic arena, academic and business world, and military, religious and non-profit sectors of our society.

In reflecting on my career I am sometimes fascinated that my 16 year-old high school dream of being a “teacher and coach” is still true today. I have been blessed to have lived out the dream in so many of life’s amazing possibilities and opportunities. My journey from Uncommon to Bizarre - through Trainings and Conferences - is definitely an outcome of diligently investing time each year with the Ten Balloons.

Uncommon to bizarre.

When You Take a Pig Across America Adventure initiative.
20’ World’s Largest Strawberry Float.
Building Sarah’s Third Floor Tijuana Home.
New York City Protest March.
Ocean City Leadership Conference.
Make A Difference Day – Columbus.
Constructing the Treehouse in the Tijuana Dump.
Encounter on the Montego Bay runway.
Tipp Roller Mill Painting Initiative.
Appalachia home built by 60.

Work project initiatives.

“Fill your life with shared memories and love, and in the end you will have lived.” Lynda Fisher

· Dayton Work Project

· Appalachia Construction Company

· Mexico Work Project

· Jamaica Work Project

· New York City Work Project

· Chicago Work Project

· Habitat House in Haiti

· Dayton Restoration - Light Street Home

· West Virginia Construction Project

· Dayton Home Insulation Project

· Bob’s Garden in Manhattan

Community initiatives.

“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

· Run For the Mums

· Junior Run for the Mums

· Tipp City Community Thanksgiving Dinner

· Idea Factory

· Troy Strawberry Festival

· Troy Make a Difference Day

· Dayton Make a Difference Day

· Columbus Make a Difference Day

Student designed initiatives.

“Never depend upon institutions or government to solve any problem. All social movements are founded by, guided by, motivated and seen through by the passion of individuals.” Margaret Mead

· The Clubhouse

· Kids Kamp

· Dreamers Gymnastics

· Serve it Up!

· Reading Buddies

· Young Women of Distinction

· Canal Boat Restoration Project

· Upward Basketball Superheroes Event

· Kids Read Now Summer Camp

· Young Women of Distinction Summer Camp

· Northmont Leadership Camp

· Mathletes

· Dayton Children’s Zoo

· Funday Monday

· Spring Break Appalachia Home Build

Movements, teams and groups.

“As I review the great history of our nation, community organizers have been at the center of so many of our great social movements.” Cory Booker

· TKE at Eastern Kentucky

· Evening Zoo

· Milton Union High School Industrial Arts

· Chestertown Middle School Industrial Arts

· Joshua Team

· World Changers

· Show-pig.com All-star Leadership Team

· Hopewell micro business venture

Trainings and conferences.

“There is an art to developing people.” Mitch Gray

· Ocean City Leadership Conference

· McDonald’s Dayton Leadership Conferences

· Ichthus Youth Leaders Trainings

· Wright Patterson Air Force Base Mentoring Initiative

· Student Leadership Academy

· UMC West Ohio Conference Youth Consultant

· Grandparent Revolution Workshops

· Ten Balloons Workshops

· Christmas In New York Leadership Conferences

Mike Nygren