Rodger Bland

About Rodger Bland

I am a lifelong pursuer of my full potential. For the past twenty years I have dedicated a large part of my life energy towards the study of success. As a successologist (not a real word), I have learned that even the most successful among us seldom if ever realize their true, full potential in life. Instead, we all temporarily accept a level of underachievement for which we can justify and live with. Obviously some levels of underachievement are higher than others but very few if any (no one I have studied) ever reaches their full-potential. And thank God for that! Imagine a world without the constant pursuit of living life to its fullest - there would be no advancement, no purpose or meaning. I believe we truly are what we think about, and that all our limitations are self imposed. The keys to our fulfillment lie in the information we gather, and how we transfer that information into useful knowledge. “Information without inspiration is a like a Ferrari without fuel. Nice to sit in and safe, but will take you nowhere.”

Experience

1. Managing Editor

   Gears Magazine

   Sep 2000 — Present · Los Angeles, CA, US

   As the Managing Editor for GEARS magazine my job is to filter the information from a raw to a refined form. To select what is important, useful and valuable and what is not. Refined information by itself, however, still falls short of its true potential of knowledge transfer – it must also be inspired!

Education

• UOP

  Bachelor's degree

  1996 — 2001

Skills

• Customer Service
• Public Speaking
• Automotive
• Budgets
• Microsoft Office
• Online Advertising
• Social Media
• Marketing Communications
• Team Building
• Event Management
• Strategic Planning
• Customer Retention
• Internal Communications
• Vehicles
• Marketing Strategy