From the perspective of:
My Spouse
Miguel was a force of life, a truly unstoppable human being. He always had an idea to do something big, usually around helping more people. It was a true adventure to be his wife. His favourite words “There is no better time to do this than now, later in life is going to be harder”.
His drive was always fueled by his desire to have more time with his family. He was the best partner I could ever have. I always felt full of love, admiration and respect for this man. I lack for nothing, well maybe more time with him. He always prioritized our family above everything and anything.
We truly had an incredible life together, this new chapter in life is going to be very different, but he always prepared me for this moment. For many years he wanted to be frozen and sent to space, he would always say: ‘Imagine the possibilities, intelligent life could find me, revive me and you know me I will find the way, or I will make the way to get back to you once more’.
We did have a conversation if we would be open to relocating to another planet. As you can see, he always had very interesting ideas.
Another thing that I’m very grateful for is that he was a great father, and more importantly a great example to our children of what a gentleman is. I loved his happy, fun and balanced nature.
His constant focus on always improving and becoming his best version every day. Just imagine, we were not even married when he invited me to our first marriage conference. We went back every year because as the slogan says, “Great marriages don’t just happen”.
He used to say frequently that conquering my heart and having our beautiful family was his biggest accomplishment in life.
Our breakthrough as a family was when he was able to resign from his corporate life and go full-on as an entrepreneur. We both felt nervous but now with the benefit of hindsight was the best decision we took as a family.
That gave us so much harmony, unity, freedom, and options as a family. I thank Miguel for never giving up and for keep pushing until we got our breakthrough.
My Children
Our father was a loving force and for us, he was always present. He never missed an event, show school activity or anything we invited him. Even though he did a lot of things and was extremely busy, he would make space for us. He always told us how much he loved us and how proud he was of us at any time he had.
He loved to challenge us and developed this curriculum of activities and skill sets we had to have before leaving our home. Everything we did as a family had a purpose to build us up and prepare us to be successful in life.
His love to learn and immediately applying what he learned was contagious. I read so many books because of my dad that teachers had trouble keeping up with us at school. He repeated so many times- ‘You can be and have anything you want in life as long as you help enough people to be and have what they want’. If our brains have a tattoo that would be one of the many sayings he would constantly repeat.
He was an intense person; he would put his whole effort into everything he committed. I’m grateful that he taught us a lot with what he said but even more with what he did. His example of being a man of values, integrity and dedication to his family and community is what I learned from him.
My Grandchildren
Our Abuelo Miguel was super fun, he was old, but he knew how to talk young. If we brought him something he didn’t know, by the next time we visited, not only would he know more than us, but he would also teach us some new tricks, and this applied to everything from technology to video games, augmented reality, everything.
Our grandpa was quite something. If he wasn’t with us, he was reading or learning. He went back to university several times to study just for fun. Who goes back to school? I think our grandpa was a little crazy, even though he left us this AI machine with all his thoughts for us to talk with him and ask questions, we are going to miss playing with him and building stuff together.
My Friends
Miguel was a great friend and he loved to celebrate life. He would always invite us to eat tacos and celebrate something, almost on a monthly basis he would come up with something.
I remember celebrating with him not only birthday parties, and their duo anniversary, (when he met Jen for the first time and when they got married), but he would also invite us to celebrate the anniversary of the day he decided to come to Canada, the anniversary for becoming Canadian, the anniversary for leaving corporate, and the list goes on and on.
He enjoyed life to the fullest and he made sure we all enjoyed it with him. His joy for life was contagious. He was a great friend; he was always there when I needed him.
My Colleagues
Miguel was a great mentor and coach. It was like having our personal Tony Robbins. He would make things happen. He would focus on the end result but even more on how we would get there and how people felt.
He was a great leader, so inspirational. There was no person that he couldn’t influence or persuade to want to be better and live happier. The amount of people he helped transform and loved him is enormous.
My Community
Miguel was a community leader, no questions asked. His love to serve and help others was out of this world. He was obsessed with providing value to everyone he crossed paths. I met him for the first time when he was giving a talk about his experiences and learnings and it was incredible, his stories were so captivating that people would laugh, cry and clap while empowering them to conquer their next level. He was the most down-to-earth and humble person I had met. He was obsessed with helping people accelerate success.