Sacrafice

Sometimes in my life, well lets be honest a lot of times, ok almost all the time in my life I like to set ridiculous goals for myself to see if I can do it. Most of the time I'm not successful to holding up my end of the bargain. Even though I'm usually the only one who knows about these goals I set for myself I figured what is the best way to hold myself accountable. Well you can't be held accountable for something if nobody knows you are doing something.  Over the last month or so I have cut out drinking soda all the time to like once a week and I have been trying to take my dog on a walk at least 4-5 days a week. Well I jumped on the scale the other day and saw I had lost about 10 lbs since the last time I got on the scale. When you can start seeing results for something you really aren't working towards it is a great feeling. So as I was sitting on the bed reading, I thought to myself. I wonder how much more weight I could lose if I actually tried. So I turned to my wife and said that I'm not going to eat any candy, cookies, cakes, ice-cream, donuts, drink soda and most things that contain mass amounts of sugar. Now for me that is crazy because another reason I decided to do this is because of the mass amounts of candy and cookies I have consumed since the holiday season commenced right around Halloween. I'm not going to eat any of these or drink any of these things until my baby boys first birthday which will be a little over a year. I'm looking forward to the challenge and I'm especially looking forward to my sons first birthday. Sometimes in life you just gotta go big or go home. Who knows what my life will look like a year from now. I'm excited to see what happens. 

Words to Action

I got up this morning feeling whatever. Just because I say I want to do something doesn't mean I'm really going to do that. As I was getting ready for the day(at 11am non-the-less) I started thinking about how many times I have wanted to get up early and work out and spend more time with God, be a better person and so on. I have realized like many others can probably relate to that I haven't really been consistent with to many things I say I want to do. The worst part of it all is I'm only letting myself down. None of you know what I'm thinking about before I go to bed or when I wake up. But I wanted to address this issue in my life. So many times I put the words down on paper or just have a conversation with myself and that is all that materializes. A thought or a conversation. Today I want to really start putting those Words into action. I really started thinking about this as I was getting out of the shower. I know that sounds weird but for most of my pre-married life I never pulled the shower curtain back closed. I never even thought about it until one day my wife brought it to my attention. So today as I was finishing drying off I pulled the shower curtain closed and thought about that conversation my wife and I had. It started off as words and now is a habit that I do at least 98%(who's perfect) of the time I get out of the shower. It then lead me to my next thought of how it takes 21 days of doing something consistently to form a habit. I have formed a lot of bad habits over my 28 years of life and I'm wanting to change them. I don't know if it can be contributed to the fact that I have a baby coming but I want to be the best I can be. It's pretty eye opening when your better half spends a considerable amount of time with your parents and then goes "Oh that's where you get that from" or "thats why you do that". It usually is the traits that you wish you didn't get. I want to try and become the best version of "me" i can be which means putting myself aside and putting God in front. I want to do less talking this year and more acting. Nothing changes by just saying something, it takes getting off your butt and doing something. I'm so pumped for this year.  Live the dream with me. 

Introduction

For those of you who don't know me, If i could sum who I am up in one word would be "DREAMER". If you ask anyone who knows me they would say the same thing. As of lately I have been doing a lot of reflecting about my life and where it is headed. I'm half way through my 28th year of life and in just a few weeks I will be the proud father of a baby boy. My wife and I just recently celebrated our third year of marriage.  The past six months have been a crazy roller coaster to say the least. Shortly after finding out my wife was pregnant I stepped down from my job in search for the perfect job. I turned down a couple opportunities because I was waiting for the perfect one.  Needless to say six months went by and I was still looking and struggling the whole way. I haven't said it enough but God has truly blessed me with the most amazing wife ever and she has supported and stood by me the whole way. In the beginning of November we picked up and moved our family in the basement of my parents house(me, my wife, our unborn child, and Snax our Siberian Husky). I quickly got a couple interview right off the bat and nothing. Then I got to part-time jobs and it was at these part-time jobs that God opened the door.  I met a guy who was a regional sales manager for sprint and he offered me a position. I have never felt more relieved in my whole life. The pressures that have been bearing down on me have finally been lifted. I learned through all this that God had a plan. He was teaching me that I was not seizing every opportunity that I could to be "Living the Dream". With this blog I hope to document my progress towards living the dream. I have a baby on the way and a wonderful wife to enjoy. I want to do whatever is possible to make their lives amazing. I want to let you into my life and enjoy my triumphs and failures so that you can be inspired to live your life to the fullest. That it doesn't matter what you do as long as God is in the middle of it. That is what I am realizing for my life. I can't wait to look back on this and read about all the great adventures that my family and I have been on, the great friendships I make along the way and the lives I will get to help change.  Thanks for being apart of my story. I hope it is one that you don't want to end.