My name is Daniel Sprietzer and let me welcome to my website, the Investor Lifestyle.  This website is the mirror to my blog site, DanSprietzer.com that offers an insight into my thoughts, beliefs, and lifestyle.  Who am I? What do I do? What is the Investor Lifestyle? Let me handle each of these in turn.

Who am I?

If you want to be technical, this is what is on my resume or CV.

Award-winning, highly accomplished senior executive leader with proven record fueling sales and revenue growth through strategic business development and restructuring for international corporations. Excel at daily operations management, including sales division and regional store supervision. Effective personnel manager/team builder experienced in training, mentoring, and motivating sales force to overachieve goals. Catalyst able to innovate new processes and procedures to maximize efficiency and productivity.

In truth that is who I am, but more and more it’s who I was. You see I had my CV written when I was thinking that I needed to define myself by having a comfortable six figure income working for this corporation or that. I believe I spent $1500 on having my resume written 3 years ago thinking that it would get me my dream job. Wow, was I deceiving myself. The truth is I never wanted to work in a corporate environment, and it befuddles me for those who actually enjoy it <not that there is anything wrong with it for those people>.

The truth is I have done a lot in the last 20 years. I have owned an importation business that imported marine fish and coral from Indonesia. I have worked for the world’s largest toy soldier company in the world, where I not only climbed through the sales ranks at an incredible pace, where I grew the sales division every single year (growing the business from $15m to nearly $50m in less than 4 years). <As a side note of self gratification, the company has been in decline since my departure in 2004. This is not completely due to my departure, more over it is a result of those of us who cared about the company and understood the markets departing.> Most recently I started doing Business Management Consulting for small businesses ($5m/yr or less). This business while very fulfilling still did not fulfill my Vision.

In 2004 I had my life changing experience where I awoke with chronic back pain. I was unable to stand or sit for more than 15 minutes at a time without debilitating pain. This was a result of my living out of balance for over 10 years! Sitting at a computer hunched over, living with stress, being extremely out of shape (I was nearly 300lbs and I was one of the smaller guys at work), and poor nutrition all led to my body saying, “ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!”

Over the next year I did nothing but work to get my body back to a functional state, be sure to check out my trainers site at Fitness Express University. Here is an example of the changes that my body went through during that time:

I am still amazed at the change in my body shape and posture. Let me tell you, I was like many of my clients where I just never had time to work out, etc (let alone the desire!). BUT let me warn you, change that now or you may suffer in the future. Find balance in your life, and you will find true happiness.

So What do I Do?

When people ask me this question, I answer simply, “I am an Entrepreneur.” I am a business management consultant, a Real Estate Investor, the Chief of Operations for REI Office Solutions, an affiliate manager, an affiliate marketeer, a Search Engine Optimization “guru”, an online marketing “guru”, a life coach, a cyclist, a dog “whisperer”, a gamer, and most importantly a husband to my beautiful wife K. (I joke that we have been married only for about 4 years, but we dated for 12 years of our marriage…I was an absentee husband being obsessed with success in the Corporate world…sound familiar? I hope not.) So in short I tell people that I am simply an Entrepeneur. Most importanly, I am an Entrepeneur who is following his Vision and living the lifestyle that only others could wish for.

What is the Investor Lifestyle?

As I wrote in my Blog article, What is the “Investor Lifestyle”? , the Investor Lifestyle is the life you deserve to live.  It is ultimately designed by the Vision that you have for your own life and this site is one of the myriad of paths to achieve it.  This site is all about connecting you to the paths, people, events, and products that will allow you to have the financial freedom to live your Vision.  It’s that simple.  This site is all about people, people that I know have products or knowledge that can help you move forward.  Many of these people give me zero cash back for my leading you to them, I do this because I believe in their methods, ethics, and systems.  They are all proven successful entrepreneurs who can help you become one too.  Each person on this website lives out their Vision, and thus live the Investor Lifestyle.  Are you ready?

Which finally brings me to, Why do I write my blog at DanSprietzer.com and have this site?

I have always been the “power behind the throne”. In all of my jobs, I was often the one in charge, but I hid due to my own fears behind someone who I perceived as more charismatic or more important that myself. I realize now that it was fear that held me back and having conquered that fear I have been very successful in my life. For some time now I have been asked, “Dan, how did you get to where you are today?” Well this blog is one source/outlet for me to share my beliefs, viewpoints, etc with you. My goal is that if you can learn one thing about yourself from my articles that will help to propel you forward towards your Vision, then I have succeeded. If you don’t agree with my point of view, let me know, and more importantly let me know why.

That is why I founded this site, and ultimately why I have DanSprietzer.com site.  The Investor Lifestyle site is all about the people, services, and events that have a: helped me move forward or b: events/products that I know can help you to move towards your Vision. I will never sell anything on this site that I do not believe in or fully endorse. Nor will I guide you to any training, mentor, or coach that I do not trust and believe in their system or philosophy. That is my guarantee to you.

I hope you enjoy reading my blog, and I wish you the best in moving forward to your Vision.

Daniel J. Sprietzer

Out enjoying the Investor Lifestyle