Today we’d like to introduce you to John Arnold.
Hi John, thanks for sharing your story with us. To start, maybe you can tell our readers some of your backstory.
I am 73. This may conjure up slowing down but not for me. Why? I have always believed that I get good at what I practice. If I practice dying, I will get good at it. If I practice living, I will get better and better at living, year by year, month by month, week by week, day by day, minute by minute, second by second. Practicing learning and practicing living go well together. I am always learning. I have been fascinated by consciousness most of my life across may cultures.
I am a dual citizen USA and Czech. My wife is a dual citizen USA and Italian. As I write this I am learning Italian. I have practiced meditation including with Buddhist monks and other consciousness practices for 45 years.
For over 25 years I have provided international travel and permanent, expat medical insurance to 1000s of clients. Recently I became an associated with a very large association of wedding planners. I support International Destination Wedding Planners. For a variety of reasons International Destination Weddings are booming.
Can you talk to us a bit about the challenges and lessons you’ve learned along the way. Looking back would you say it’s been easy or smooth in retrospect?
I want to address how I see Obstacles, Challenges, Struggles. These are about the person/people. Simple example dunking a basketball. For Michael Jordan not an obstacle, challenge or struggle. For me on earth it way beyond obstacle. challenge or struggle. Is there are situation where I could do it. Yes, get on a ladder and dunk it. I didn’t say it had to be done by jumping. The key is to be bruttaly honest with myself. I grew up being tested and told how smart I am. In some things that was true. In my schools in 1950s Jacksonville, Florida I excelled in school. Unfortunately the schools were not that good and accreditation was taken away and yet I have friends that grew up to be phenomenal successes. One of my friends was Gary Rossington founding member of the band Lynyrd Skynyrd. I grew up with other friends that are phenomenal. I did well in school and got into Rice University which at the time was considered the most difficult only to MIT and Stanford. Rice was a shock.
All the people that I have known that have that excelled clearly knew what they wanted, worked and worked and worked with dedicati0n and clarity. Ronnie didn’t focus on money, he focused on the music.
Struggle is like “Try” I will quote a mentor. Yoda “Do Or Do Not.” “There Is No Try”
We’ve been impressed with John K Arnold International Insurance, but for folks who might not be as familiar, what can you share with them about what you do and what sets you apart from others?
For over 25 years I have provided International Travel and Permanent, Expat medical insurance to 1000s of clients internationally traveling and living internationally. I am a dual citizen USA and Czech and my wife is dual citizen USA and Italian so can provide advice to those wanting to learn about international visas and residency.
I am associated with a very large Association of Wedding Planners. I work with the International Destination Wedding Planners. Destination wedding market is a growing multi-billion dollar industry, projected to reach over $124 billion by 2032, with approximately 350,000 destination weddings happening annually.
For Americans considering, wanting an International Destination Wedding I have International Wedding Planners. It can be as close a Mexico, Caribbean or EU country like Italy. Portugal, Spain, or..
Do you any memories from childhood that you can share with us?
As I grew up in Jacksonville, Florida I spent a lot time in the summer in the pool or ocean. My father was a US Army Scout and my uncle was a US Army Officer that led his men on the Beach at Normandy where he was under Nazi fire for 300 days. The French gave him the highest honor they give a Nonfrench citizen. My mother Czech. My father taught how to swim. My uncle taught me how to ski and what courage and honor is..
My father had strategy. .”At 6 I was on the Florida Yacht Club Swimming Team.
My father had a strategy. “If you do something no one wants to do you will always win at it”
I competed in swimming Butterfly. I would go swimming meets and when they called for Butterfly in my age bracket I would the only one in the race. I always won. I have a lot of swimming medals.
Pricing:
- International Medical Insurance is priced by length of trip, ages of people traveling.
- Easy to get price. Send me an email or fill out form on my website.
- Info@InternationalTravelSafe.com
- For International Destination Wedding help please email Info@InternationalTravelSafe.com
Contact Info:
- Website: https://InternationalTravelSafe.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-k-arnold-8a1a965/
