J.J. Sykora has travelled, lived and still works around the globe in a broad range of cultures and settings. He has experienced wartime, highjacking at gunpoint and violent regime changes on one side of the spectrum, as well as the best that humanity has to offer on the other. His genuine interest in people, world events, philosophy, and the unknown wonders of the universe form the basis to his compellingly shared ideologies in his most recent work, The Great Begending.

He believes growth and creation is fundamental to human contentment and uses his writing, painting, music, gardening, work in developing countries, and growing a family to achieve his contentment. He hopes his words are entertaining as well as thought provoking. In 2018, he published his first novel, The Resolution.