Over the last month, we have more than tripled the number of regular visitors here at Project Superhero. Unfortunately, many visitors have no way to contact the Project. We're always on the look out for comments, suggestions and anyone wanting to join Team Superhero. What is the new visitor to do?

The answers are simple, dear readers. To begin with, I invite you to join ONEsite, who so graciously host the blog you're reading now. Once you've joined ONEsite, you can post comments, see large versions of the pictures in the gallery, chat with Mr. Westover and even start your own blog! Does it get much better?

Just go to the ONEsite homepage, conveniently found right here: http://www.onesite.com/

Once there, you can find out more, or you can hurry to sign up here!https://signup.onesite.com/

For those who don't wish to sign up but still want to be involved, Brian Westover can be reached via e-mail: myownsuperhero@onesite.com

 

 

I've had a couple of questions tossed my way about some of my past accomplishments and experiences - two in particular. Some have had trouble believing that I have won a Grammy, or that I have performed in Carnegie Hall. While neither is particularly pertinent to Project Superhero, my integrity is. I'll try to explain these as succinctly as possible.

I was involved in choir for all for years of high school, plus two years of college. In high school, I spent three years as a member of the Sprague High School Concert Choir. Both of the questioned claims occurred during those three years, between 1998 and 2001. In 2000, we were invited to New York to perform as the featured choir for the National Honor Choir Festival. This festival included a combined choir from high schools across the country, and a performance by one featured choir in Carnegie Hall. Sprague was not only invited to join the mass choir, but we were THE featured group.

In 1999, Sprague was named a Grammy Signature School, making its music program one of the top sixteen in the country. The following year, we were named the top music program, a distinction which includes the reception of a Grammy Award, and a sizable grant to the school. Feel free to look up either of these facts. They should be a matter of public record.

Project Superhero is the brainchild of Brian Westover. An author specializing in personal motivation and growth, he is no stranger to excellence. He is an Eagle Scout, a Grammy Award Winner, and an accomplished Martial Artist. Brian's life and experiences are vast and wide ranging.

During his Scouting career (while still in high school) he participated in numerous adventurous activities. He has climbed mountains, rapelled down cliff faces, spent many a cold night in snow caves and other impromptu structures. He has worked on the staff at a Scout Camp on the Oregon Coast, Hiked and Camped in northern Idaho, and completed the Boy Scouts Sogus course, a leadership training course.

As a musician, he has performed in choirs, brass bands and rock groups, performing in Carnegie Hall, singing alongside the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, and rocking out with thousands of concert goers with his old rock band 'Perfectly Frank'. He left the band to spend two years as a full time volunteer minister for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in the state of Texas. During this time he not only filled his individual ministerial duties, but spent many months in a leadership position, motivating and training others.

Having spent some time in every state within the Continental United States, Brian has also traveled through fifteen different countries across North America and Europe. He has hitchhiked across state lines, has spent an uncomfortable night sleeping on the couch of a women's restroom and has biked through Oslo, Norway.

In the fourth grade, Brian had an experience which may very well have been life changing. When asked by his teacher what he wanted to be when he grew up, he replied, in all seriousness, "I want to be Batman". Despite his teacher's protests, Brian still wants to be Batman seventeen years later. Later, while studying as a missionary, he became accuainted with "The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People", by: Stephen Covey. At that time, he decided to forego his dream of becoming Batman, and instead wanted to become the next Stephen Covey. Over the next year, Brian eventually realized that he wanted to do both. The result is Project Superhero.

Project Superhero is a combination blog, documentary, personal journal, comic book and self-help book. (We know, it's a lot to take in.) In essence, it follows Brian Westover as he studies and trains to become a real-world Superhero, with all of the abilities and skills that such a unique job would require. During this time, while exploring the outer edges of human potential, travelling the world and meeting the great teachers and minds of our day, Brian will also point out the important lessons that can be applied to everyday life, even for those not directly involved in the niche market of Superhero work. It is Brian's first serious attempt at a book of this nature, and he has created projectsuperhero.onesite.com to attract interst and support for the project.

Currently, Brian Westover is a student at Brigham Young University - Idaho, studying Communications and Journalism. In the next year and a half, Brian hopes to complete his degree and publish his first book.

What is Project Superhero?

Project Superhero is the brainchild of author Brian Westover (that's me). In essence, it involves me training as if to be a superhero (like Batman) and during the process recording what I experience and learn. This is currently a book in progress, and this blog contains some of the content that the book will.

Who is Brian Westover?

That would be me. I'm an author, and Project Superhero is a book I'm writing. I'm currently a student at Brigham Young University - Idaho, studying for a degree in communications, minoring in Journalism.

What is this site all about?

This site has a few different functions. First and formost, it gives me a place to collect my thoughts and content while I prepare to take the book to publishers. Second, it gives my book some exposure and hopefully gains it some fans. Lastly, because I want people reading this and staying interested, I need to regularly update this, which keeps me motivated and working on my book.

Where can I learn more?

To begin with, I would direct you to the articles and posts already here on the blog. A lot of it is clearly explained here, or will be shortly. If that's not enough, Onesite members can post comments and questions or can send me a message directly. (If you're not a member of Onesite, please join. It's free, it's simple and they won't spam you! Does it get better than that? I think not.)Again, I refer you to the articles that are already here.