Just Like Clockwork

July 14th, 2017

So it’s been a little while since my last post, and I wanted to say that it was a rough time mentally for me. The job that I was offered on the spot was having difficulties verifying my employment because the companies I worked for over the past couple years were being difficult to say the least. I was feeling down, I felt almost defeated, like that 20% of things that are out of our control, this was one of them, and I was feeling like all that stuff was weighing me down. Do you ever have those days where your legs are so tired and all you want to do is sleep? I couldn’t get out of the spiral of negativity echoing in my head.

My wife started a paralegal position in downtown Denver as of this last Monday, and everything was going great until she realized that the other paralegal is the lawyers little spy. My wife went downstairs and made a joke about how cold it was to the other paralegal, to which she sent an e-mail to the head lawyer saying my wife was complaining about her conditions. The head lawyer bit her head off, and my wife had to defend herself on her 3rd day. The thing that’s rattling my brain is why would a leader/boss take someone at their word without investigating and just make a work environment as undesirable as possible with a short temper. That’s not much of a leader as far as I’m concerned.

Sometimes we learn in life what not to do because of people like this. It’s no surprise why they’ve gone through 3 paralegals in 6 months. But my wife is tough, and there’s no getting around the fact that she won’t be bullied by someone who just enjoys having the power to fire people when she sees fit. So she wakes up every morning and takes the job head on, and to that I say, you are an amazing woman, and I’m so incredibly proud of you.

On top of this we made our truck payments to get caught up, and after we did we felt a huge sense of relief. Still stressed because the job thing for me wasn’t going as planned, but a small weight off the bar makes a difference. Then we woke up to take the truck in to get it licensed at our DMV in Centennial, walked outside, and couldn’t find the truck. I phoned the police department and asked if they had any information on whether it was towed or stolen, they said there is no record of repossession, so we have to file a stolen vehicle report. More weight was added to the bar, my heart sunk, and I felt sick, we didn’t need this.

After filing the report we received a call from the dealership through which our truck is financed, and they apologized profusely, they had it in repo status and they didn’t take the repo men off the hunt after we made the payment. So they brought the truck back to us, and gave us $100 credit for the inconvenience. It was a pain and an undesirable stress, but we came out on top of this one. After all of this happened, yesterday morning, I went in to an interview with another trucking company thinking my chances are low getting this other position I was offered. They did a road test and said they’ll let me know after they talk it over what they want to do.

While I was gone at the interview I received a call from the first company I applied for that offered me a position saying congratulations everything is passed and when do you want to start. All I could think was, are you kidding me? So my official start date is Monday, 7/17. I feel so incredibly nervous but so happy all at the same time. Now you need to remember that I felt as though these were just jobs that I was going to hate in the past, but I have goals now. I’m not looking at the next 20 years of my life grudgingly waking up to make a paycheck anymore, I’m working for something much bigger now. I feel so ready to move to some pretty amazing places of my life that I never imagined possible for someone like me.

My wife and I went from bringing home $50k a year to both fully employed and potentially bringing in over $100K a year. We went from barely paying our bills with 5 kids, to being homeless living in my parents basement driving for Uber just make some fast cash, to where we will be, in our most triumphant time of our life. Honestly I’m still a little shocked, just because we have never had income like this before, and we have always been in a never knowing what’s next state of mind, and now things couldn’t be clearer.

Needless to say I have come out of my funk, and I am ready for our next chapter. It’s time to start thinking about how to start some positive habits. This is where I’m going to start in on my next book, “7 Habit of Highly Effective People.” Click on the book below here to get your copy from Amazon.

I would like to take a journey with you, let’s start implementing these habits together, and see where we will be in a few weeks, so that we can be new people growing together. Will you fight with me? Will you have the courage to stick with it? Will you be able to snuff out all the naysayers and move to a more positive place in your life and leave your old self to die and become the new you? I saw a picture on Facebook about a week ago, and it was a picture that someone had drawn. It talked about suicide, and how we think at time it’s the only thing that is ever going to solve our problems. But we can commit suicide without ever having to stop living right here. We die to our old self and birth ourselves into a new person completely.

It is possible and people do it all the time. And as much as it might be difficult for you to detach yourself from everything that you know and are comfortable with to start over, you must be willing to say no more. I’m doing it, little by little, getting the negative people and things out of my life that have put me in my spiral down to rock bottom. And the best way that I know how, is to do some things that are going to make me uncomfortable, that are outside my comfort zone. And just like clockwork, we will be redeveloped into highly successful people through our habits. So join me on this next leg of the journey. We are one step closer to opening our Escape Room.

Son Muy Importantes

July 3rd, 2017
I’m amazed everyday at the shear self loving factor that many carry around. Driving for Uber has opened my eyes even more so to the lack of respect we have for each other out on the road. I’m not sure there’s anything to be done about it, but I can’t help but wonder when we as people forgot that we need each other. Without others we can’t achieve our goals.

Not a one of us is an Omniscient Omnipotent Omnipresent being that can achieve all our dreams on our own and so quickly it’s forgotten. Today I would like to challenge you to focus more attention on another person or many if you choose. Let them in when they want to change lanes, make new coffee at work for the others who drink it, allow yourself to take a backseat to the daily desires of those around you.

Remember the book I said I was listening to, “How to win friends and influence people.” I finished it today and there’s so much information on how we could conduct ourselves that would get us exactly what we want. You will be surprised at the effects that focusing your energy on another could do. I’ve been trying to practice everyday with every person I haul in my car to their destination. I ask questions, and I love to learn so I’m interested in what they want to talk about. Showing them the interest in them is what people crave. Have you ever noticed how people sort of stop talking or make it about them right when you’re done saying what you wanted to say about you?

This is not uncommon even a little bit. People love themselves and by nature we are prideful beings and some more arrogant than others. There is a strong difference between telling yourself you are the best and building up the belief that you are, and then telling other people. Confidence is built with a strong belief and repetition tasks. Talent is your natural ability to do something, where skill is you beating on your craft in an attempt to perfect it. Now we are all imperfect, but that’s what makes us unique, the strive for perfection is key to success.

Just try to spend one whole day caring about someone else. Don’t talk about yourself, refrain from using the words me and I. Show other people that they are important and don’t take credit for something and drive the confidence in someone else by complimenting them and how well they did. Doesn’t matter what it is, there are always things to talk about.

Keep up the hard work and desperate yourself from the ones who “get by.” Time for your life to change, but that begins with you. Out here at work, so I’m gonna leave you to your night, be safe out there, and don’t drive drunk, call an Uber! 😉 Goodnight all.

Another Day Another Mountain

July 2nd, 2017

Today was a day to find out exactly what you’re made of. I found out that I’m mostly made of Jell-o. 1000 ft. mountaineering up a trail that led to the real mountain climbers, made the legs shake and the head ache. This was a bit more grueling than what we did the other day, and I have to say that I’m pretty proud of my wife and the little ones. As much as it hurt and and tuckered everyone out, we kept busting a move up the side of this mountain.

Just in case you were interested in going up yourself, it’s at Eldorado Canyon State Park in Boulder, CO. I started to notice something about myself that I’ve never noticed before. I can push a lot harder than I ever thought I could. My mind was telling me no more, but my body continued to fight and I can’t explain why I always told myself I couldn’t, I very much can, and so can you.

Also the goals, the depression would have tackled me to the ground by now, but I feel on fire, to have such clear ideas that I want for my life, who knew that this was going to light the fire. I did start to feel a little depression looking at some model homes yesterday just craving my own home. But it only kept me in a mindset that I need to figure out how to get it, so I turned on some motivational videos and boosted my confidence back up.

I’m gonna have to cut this night short because I’m craving some much needed sleep after a shower, plus my 6 year old kept us up a lot of the night last night. So I apologize for this being short, but let me know what’s going on with your goals. What’s worked for you and what blew up in your face? Share with the class, and maybe we can all move forward in a positive direction. Until then, goodnight all.

Sometimes You Just Need To Breathe

July 1st, 2017

There are those days when you feel like your just going to scream, like one more minute of the same thing is going to be the death of you. They say that when you force yourself to do something everyday for 3 weeks it becomes a habit. Without disagreeing with this, because I truly believe this is true, I want to add my two scents.

When you start something new, diet, exercise, job, blog, anything, making entire life changes without taking some time to breathe and take it all in I believe is what can be a big reason for many people wanting to quit. When you can’t transition into something smoothly it tends to take a negative toll on most. Don’t get me wrong, you can trudge through and fight that feeling, some make it through, others don’t. Why?

There has been a lot of business, celebrities, and more that have had huge success so fast, they didn’t know what to do with it and either got too overwhelmed, or went a bit on the crazy side cause they couldn’t handle the success. Moving slow isn’t a bad thing. We all want to have wealth, and we all want it yesterday, but remember that you have to start somewhere. Today is the start day, today is day one of the rest of your life, will you spend it 100% different than you’ve been spending your life thus far?

You could, but it more than likely won’t last long. I have found that it really doesn’t take very long for someone to stop doing something that they decided to change about their normal habits. I’m guilty of it too, but it’s because I went full throttle in another direction without taking my foot off the gas, and like moving away from family and familiarity, I almost felt homesick in a way. I wanted to do some of the things that I did, I wanted to eat some things I wanted to eat.

This is normal, and that’s why I think that taking a day for yourself to just breathe, and take in everything that you’ve been doing to change, and evaluate what has been working and what hasn’t is a good thing. So take some time to breathe, enjoy the wind, the sun, the rain, the bathtub, the fireplace with some cocoa. Start changing the trends of your life, little by little, don’t change everything in one day. Hang tough, it’s a long and bumpy road, just don’t get out of the car, keep going. Soon this will all be behind you, and you can look back and say I’m glad that patience was a virtue that I kept close to my heart.

Don’t Armageddon you’re life, take your time and be patient. You will encounter failures, but these are good, they help you, they don’t hurt you. Stay positive, and in the words of Steve Jobs, stay hungry, stay foolish. Goodnight all.

Because I Can!

June 30th, 2017

Tonight’s post is going to be short and sweet, it’s been a very long day, and I struggling keeping my eyes open just to write this. We woke up this morning and were asked if we wanted to go hiking up in Boulder, CO, as I have kept putting off hiking for work, I finally decided what’s one day away from going after goals. But then I started to think, why do my goals need to take a backseat today, I can integrate them into my hike.

I grabbed all the dumbbells that my mom had and put them in my backpack. 2 of every weight, 15’s, 8’s, 5’s, and 3’s, totaling 65 lbs with my water. I picked up the backpack and thought, I can’t even hold this just standing here, this might be excessive, so I dropped all but the 15’s. So I carried about 33 lbs up this somewhat steep incline at Chatauqua Park and started hiking.

I thought I was going to die, my legs quit working about a tenth of a mile up, it was sad. I kept looking up thinking, this is too much, what was I thinking? The decision I made next was the best one I could think of, I looked down and just took one step at a time. I didn’t even look at the incline in front of me. The only thing I wanted was to show my wife and family, that there is nothing that is going to defeat me. My mom even suggested at one point to leave the backpack somewhere and we’ll get it on the way back down. I said no, I’ve got this.

We ended up hiking just a couple miles in total, but I was relieved to be able to take to backpack off and drive. We stopped off at Pearl Street Mall in Boulder, but quickly saw that pets were not allowed, and Sammy, our German Shepherd, was taking the trip with us, so we decided to drive the 55 miles back home instead. Pizza was ordered for dinner while my dad and wife talked about photography, I scrolled through some motivational facebook posts from some pages that I follow.

The only thing that I want you to realize about this day, is that even though hiking up a mountain wasn’t really on my agenda for the day, I turned it into a positive because my Health and Fitness Goals are still goals, and what better way to go after these goals with the great outdoors. Not only that, I felt like I wanted to quit and go drop off the backpack back at the car, but I didn’t. I trudged through and fought the urge to back out of my commitment. After awhile, the backpack didn’t seem too heavy anymore. I didn’t think about it, all I thought about was enjoying my view, and having fun with my wife, kids, and family.

And on the positive, I didn’t die! I think that most of us tend to make excuses and want to quit, thinking that we would rather die then put up with this crap one more minute. It’s not the end of the world for anyone who says, nope, I’m going through to the end on this. I’m 5′ 10″ and 208 lbs of mostly fat, if I can do it, you can do it. Mind over matter. In the words of my dad, suck it up buttercup. Don’t be defeated before you ever start, go the distance, and show all the non believers that you can, cause they don’t know everything. Goodnight all.

That Was Close

June 29th, 2017

Breakfast was small and the coffee was great, but as with some situations, you can miscalculate your finances easily when there’s a lot going on and your mind is always racing. That’s what happened to us this morning when we woke up, bank account showed – $40.00, but some of the transactions were merely authorizations. This allowed me to work back the money before we were charged an overdraft fee, which I did successfully with Uber all day today. It was almost non-stop driving from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Had to fill up the car with gas so I can work tomorrow, so now we’re positive $.42, yeehaw.

We still have 2 more things to catch up on, so we’ll be working with Uber until we’re caught up, which is no big deal, but it’s definitely not an ideal situation for full time work. The wear and tear and the vehicle and fuel, it’s really not a great solution, but good for some fast cash.

So we’ve covered all the goal sheets, there were 6 categories if you remember, and I still feel really good about all of them. I got a few more chapters into the book, “Think and Grow Rich” and there are quite a few things that we already know about some successful people, but sometimes it’s important to be reminded about these ideas. The book covers these in a way that I’m not used to hearing, so it was nice to hear them from another perspective, cause it expands the way I was thinking.

If you want to know the steps in which are described in this book here they are please visit this site here -> http://www.deconstructingexcellence.com/think-and-grow-rich-summary/ <-

The biggest idea that I got out of this is a lot of what you see in the power of positive thinking. You must have something that you want. Not generally speaking, it's not good enough to just say I want a lot of money, or be successful in business. You must have an exact thing that you want. For me it's my Escape Room Business. I want to have 8 fully operational Escape Rooms in 10 years. I want to have $10 million in my bank account. That is exactly what I'm shooting for, so there is clarity in my goals, as there needs to be in yours.

For me it took about 13 years for me to decide what I wanted to do, I had no idea, I was very general in my way of thinking. There was nothing that I wanted other than to be rich and successful, but it never worked, I never became rich, actually the exact opposite. It wasn't until I figured out exactly what I wanted to do that I had my desire.

Once you figure out what you want you have to go after it with a burning desire. Like your life depends on it. You would die before giving up on your goals and dreams, that kind of burning desire. Next you need to believe and have faith that it will happen. One of the things I saw in an Interview with Jim Carrey and Oprah was Jim kept telling himself that he already had the things that he wanted, they just weren't in his physical possession yet. He would tell himself that he was already successful and had everything that were a part of his goals.

Jim even wrote himself a check for $10 million for acting services rendered and put it in his wallet and dated it for Thanksgiving 1995. Right before Thanksgiving of 1995 he found out he was going to make $10 million on the movie Dumb and Dumber. This same idea has held true with many other successful people including Thomas Edison, Abraham Lincoln, Denzel Washington, Will Smith, Steve Jobs, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and many many more. These people are just a few of the many people that I follow as inspirational people, because they went after their dreams with everything they had, and they got it.

Don’t let the valleys of your life get your down, we all have them, even the most successful people have them, and some have even lost their lives, even as successful people because of the valleys. Find something to fight for and keep fighting for it. Once you attain it, go after something else, or add on to the goal you just attained and make it bigger. As human beings we need something to work for, or we tend to lose focus and purpose and the valleys hit harder than ever.

Work out those goal sheets if you haven’t yet and start working toward something positive in your life. You can do this, excuses don’t get results, and the issues that happen in your life, only 20% are out of your control, you’ve got more power than you think. Let’s get going on this thing, I’m looking forward to hearing back from you. Until then, goodnight all.

 

The Legend, The Man

June 28th, 2017

King Arthur, a mythological legend of Camelot, a full poster boy for leadership and equality. We saw the new movie tonight, King Arthur: Legend of the Sword, and it was probably the best Arthur story I’ve seen ever. How do you think you would stack up against the man who literally had nothing and became the leader of entire people? I know that I’m a competitive man and I like to win, but I’m nowhere near the man that this man was said to be. What I’m trying to say, is there is always someone out there we can strive to imitate in many ways, maybe not swinging swords and leading a nation, but close.

Today, whoo, started off rough, I couldn’t fall asleep last night for nothing, I finally got up around 3:00 a.m. to go to the bathroom and finally fell asleep after that. I didn’t wake up until 10:30 a.m.! What the heck happened last night? I think that maybe I had a lot on my mind and was pretty excited about what happened yesterday and that affected my sleep. After I woke up and had some coffee we took our car to the shop for an oil change. I normally do this myself but we had a free coupon to use, so that made more sense. We had to drop it off, so we took the kids swimming to my parents rec center, and worked on a card game that my wife and I have been working on.

This game is something we’ve been developing for a few months now, and we’re just trying to work out the kinks at this point. I look forward to presenting this game on Kickstarter to see if it’s something that people want to play and get behind. The last half an hour I walked over to the weights and worked out a little. Like I said before, being OTR, ruined my body. I didn’t do anything but drive all the time, and my health went downhill, as did my strength. I could only bench 75 lbs 15 times. I felt weak, especially sense fitness was a priority in the past and I was benching close to 200 lbs. But, that’s what you get when you start all over from the beginning.

So after a 30 minute workout, we went to pick up the car, went home, and had some dinner with some good conversations. Then we watched the movie, I am minutes away from going out to Uber for the night, hip hip hoooooo…… ray. But we still have a few bills that need paid that are past due, and the paychecks aren’t coming in yet, so for now, work work work work work. So let’s rap up the blog, so I can start raking in some cash. The goal sheet that I want to share with you tonight is Spiritual. I know that not every one believes in a higher power, but every one has what they believe in, so use that with what you believe. Here we go,

Spiritual Goal Sheet:

12 Week Goal – Get a habit of going to church on Sunday mornings and more consistent prayer

1 Year Goal – Getting into the habit of giving back physically and financially to organizations that I believe in.

5 Year Goal – Read the entire Bible

10 Year Goal – Lather, Rinse, Repeat. Keep working on the habits

Again, not everyone has the same ideas when it comes to the Bible, God, or whatever, my point is not to debate what’s true, cause we all believe what we believe about the universe on faith, which is the belief in something we cannot prove. My point is to continue to show you where I am in my journey and where my goals are and how I’m attaining them. Some of them might not appeal to you, and that’s ok. If we were all the same it would be an incredibly boring world, I’m thankful for all different types of people and what good so many bring to the table. I’ve learned more from experiencing people, then I have in anything, and you can’t go anywhere without people, every dream you have, so many people made that dream possible.

There is no doubt that there are a lot of difficult people that we all can’t stand, but also not the point. Learn from everyone and try to talk less, unless it’s questions, you’ll see what I mean when you take the very next person you talk to and let them do all the talking. People are the backbone of everything that is in the world today, don’t discount the fact that you need people to accomplish your goals. I’m going out tonight to make money driving people where they need to go. So enjoy the rest of your night, and I’ll see you again tomorrow, goodnight all.

Looking At The Horizon

June 27th, 2017

Woke up at 7:00 a.m. this morning and got ready for my job interview. I had taken a shower just like I do every night after writing in this blog, trimmed my beard and shaved my head last night. So this morning I just finished getting ready for my interview and left early to stop and grab a monster on the way. I arrived at my interview at 9:20 a.m. which was really early, so I continued to listen to my book from Dale Carnegie. 15 minutes before my appointment I checked in to the main office and my interview lasted about an hour.

I was offered the job on the spot, and was immediately sent over to do a drug test. The fact that I’ve never done drugs, and never will, it was no problem. I got back to the house around 1:30 p.m. and had some lunch. Now this may come as a shock but sitting there eating some pizza rolls, watching NEXT on Netflix, my wife gets a call. She rolled her eyes and sighed somewhat frustrated at the numerous phone calls she’s been receiving. She walked downstairs to take her call in private and a few minutes later, she came running up the stairs yelling that she just got a job!

After a month of applications and interviews, she got an offer at $20/hr. and she was ecstatic, as was I. We both started going right back over our goals and putting a plan in place for when the paychecks start coming in. I was told today that the first year guys make anywhere from $70k – $80k for truck driving locally in Denver. I couldn’t believe what was happening. We have gone from two unemployed dreamers, to two fully employed goal achievers. I haven’t felt this good in a long time, to actually have a goal in mind and achieve it, I was ready for more, and I wanted to work harder when I got the news.

The rest of the day was celebratory in nature and we enjoyed some cake that my parents brought back from the store after some very delicious dinner, and then we took the kids to the skate park. I feel like today was a super success, and we weren’t expected for these results in the same day. The funny thing in the past though, is that every time we applied for multiple positions, the job offers would always inevitably come all at once. Funny little world, isn’t it?

Let’s move on to the Family Goal Sheet.

Family Goal Sheet:

12 Week Goal – Encourage children to make goals and follow through with them.

1 Year Goal – Have a date night with my wife and each child individually one night a month.

5 Year Goal – Help kids go after their dreams with daily encouragement and participation.

10 Year Goal – Teach kids how to take care of themselves in the adult world. Continue date nights and strengthening my relationship with my wife and kids.

As you can see there isn’t much here, and the goals themselves are more habits that I want to incorporate into my daily, weekly, and monthly routines. But I don’t think there is anything wrong with that. I would definitely be open to input on this though. Just like all the other goal sheets, share what your goals are, and see how they stack up against each other, and then open more doors to other ideas as we all feed off on another.

Until then, don’t give up and think that what is will always be, look to the horizon. The clouds will pass, and the silver lining is right over that mountain, stop waiting for it to come to you, and go after it. Let me know when you’re there, until then, goodnight all.

Rough Days Are Always

June 26th, 2017

It seems that every day there is always something that gets to me. With 5 kids, I guess it’s not that hard to run into difficult days, but I’m on such a good path toward my goals that rough days will not keep me down, I refuse to let them. I found one of the books that’s on my Personal Goal Sheet to read in the next 12 weeks on SoundCloud. There were 8 discs, and I listened to 4 of them today. Had to take my wife downtown for an interview this morning so knocked out 2 discs just in a drive.

The book was called “How to Win Friends and Influence People” by Dale Carnegie, which you can find below, and I have to say that I’m hooked the ideas. It really is incredible the way that most of us think, how self absorbed we are, and how we don’t even realize we’re doing it. I encourage you to not even use the word I in your next conversation. It’s hard to do, instead, ask questions, get genuinely interested in someone else and learn something from them. Even if you disagree with them, don’t say anything but positive and encouraging words. See how much of difference it makes in the relationships you have.

Tonight I want to go over my Personal Goal Sheet, it doesn’t have a lot of words, but it’s a start. I’m sure as time goes on I’ll start to remember some of those personal goals that I’ve always wanted. But this is kind of the point right, to get what you want immediately down on paper and adjust and add new goals as time goes on. So without further ado, here are my Personal Goals.

Personal Goal Sheet:

12 Week Goal – To read to the top 10 must read books for entrepreneurs. Want to start a YouTube Channel and have 1 video uploaded every week. Want to have a house rented.

1 Year Goal – To finish 30+ books related to business and management. To be intentional about every day, to wake up at a certain time and go to bed at a certain time.

5 Year Goal – I would like to have my teeth fixed. I would like to take a vacation to another country.

10 Year Goal – Want to have visited a new country every year. To have read over 300 books related to business, mindset, management, and the like.

When I was truck driving OTR I picked up and delivered in about 30 States, and the one thing that I found was that in America, everything looks the same everywhere. Slight differences in land, but cities are cities, and there isn’t a whole lot of difference, just different weather and different people. When I went to Germany, it was a whole new world, buildings were different, lifestyle was different. I loved being in a place that was different than the same old thing I’ve seen and experienced over and over again. But I do have to say that I love Colorado, there’s tons to do, and the weather is amazing.

What are your personal goals? I developed mine through things that I’ve experienced and what I’ve learned from others. These goals are going to be hard without the goals from work and financial fulfilled, so it kind of goes back to what I said in an earlier blog, these goal sheets have some overlap.

As far as my day today, I took my wife to an interview, I detailed my car, but a bit more involved than my last two cars. I took the seats out and power washed everything, including the floor mats. I got very wet, and on this toasty day, I wasn’t even mad. After we detailed my G6, we packed up the kids and dog in the Suburban and headed over to PetSmart to get Sammy some more food. If I hadn’t said it before, Sammy is a 6 month old German Shepherd, she currently weighs over 60 lbs, and she’s the biggest sweetheart. She loves to play… with her teeth. The kids struggle with that everyday, but she gets better and better with the biting.

That was pretty much the end of the day, didn’t really feel like it was too fulfilled, but I’m pumped up to finish that book tomorrow. I have an Interview tomorrow, so I’m hoping that will go well, and we’ll be on the right path to fulfilling our goals. I’m off to shower off every ounce to stink right now, and get some good sleep for my interview. Think about your personal goals and get them down on paper? Is there a lot of overlap on your goal sheets as well? Hang tough, don’t give up, and keep working everyday a little at a time towards your goal. Goodnight all.

No Signs of Slowing Down

June 25th, 2017

Today started with sucking down lactose juice with CocoaRoos and the Intolerance led to many magical wind instrumentation throughout the next few hours. There was even a moment where I was detailing a mini-van and had to exit for a few from my own permeation. Wasn’t good, mostly for those around me. Anywaaaaaays, between yesterday and today I made $200 from detailing a Toyota Camry and a Toyota Sienna. It’s decent pay for just a few hours of work.

Going over the bills we still have to pay though, it’s still not enough. I’m gonna have to Uber my tail off until we can cover our other immediate bills. We still have a $300 truck payment, $205 for the storage unit, and $267 for the cell phone bill. All of which are past due. So the $200 will help with that, but still got a little bit to go. Tomorrow is going to full of hauling people around in my Pontiac G6.

I got kind of lucky with the G6, my brother bought it a few years ago back in Nebraska. A little over a year ago he went out to start it to let it warm up before work. He forgot his lunch box and ran inside real quick and when he came back out it was gone. Someone had stolen it, and it took over a month for the police to find it and have it returned to my brother. They locked themselves out of the car and tried to pry open the doors damaging a lot of the body and tore apart the door panel and lost all the screws. Not only that, they smoked in it, and dropped tons of tobacco under the seats, and burned a small hole in the passenger seat.

This just goes to show you how smart people can get, ha, yes, smart. But I knew how well my brother took care of it, so I knew it would be a good buy. Got it for $2000 shortly after it was returned, because he didn’t want to keep it after that, brought on too much frustration for him, so he wanted it gone. It didn’t go too far. Sat in a dirt lot while I was over the road for awhile, and when I was in town, I mostly rode my Yamaha V-Star Classic. I’ve since sold the bike, but one day, I’ll get another one. Never had more fun, so much freedom in riding, but it’s just postponed, not forgotten.

I’m just blathering now, back to the day. After I finished up the detail, we took the kids over the skate park. They were bugging me all day, and I kept saying I have things to do, so I thought it would be nice to head out to let them try their new boards. After that we got dinner, and was pretty much pooped, so here I am in the basement in bed, writing up the day. So let’s get on to the Goal Sheet. Today I’m going over my Health and Fitness Goals, but there was some difficulty towards the 5 and 10 year goals because I couldn’t think of anything that I wanted to do other than keeping up the earlier goals. But here we go.

Health and Fitness Goal Sheet:

12 Week Goal – Develop habit of going to the gym 6 days a week.

1 Year Goal – Reach my goal weight of 190 lbs with less than 12% body fat

5 Year Goal – Maintain goal weight of 190 lbs with less than 10% body fat

10 Year Goal – Continue with previous goals.

I am 30 years old now, yes you read correctly, I have 5 kids and I am 30. If you recall from the About page, I had my first daughter when I was 17, that was in 2004. In 05, we had a boy, and another in 08, and another in 09. Then in 2011 we had our last girl. She just turned 6, and she is a handful.

But at 30 years old I had reached the heaviest and worst shape I had ever been, I reached 212 lbs and limped everywhere cause my knees hurt so badly most of the time. These past few weeks we’ve been skating and hitting the gym sporadically, so I’m starting to feel a little better about the condition of my knees, and I’m down to 203.6 lbs now.

Have you taken any time to think and write down any of the goals from the previous days? Your work is going to take up most of your life, it is very important in my opinion to have work goals. Financial goals are also extremely important as they will give you the peace of mind that when Murphy comes knocking at your door, that is from Murphy’s law, you can open and shut the door in seconds. Your Health and Fitness will give you more quality of life, having energy and being able to keep up with the kids was high on my priority list.

So in conclusion to this day, I encourage you to take time to think about your goals. I have an interview on Tuesday and look forward to meeting my work and financial goals when I get this job. Also remember one thing, the homeless sitting out with a sign on the corner of the Wal-Mart, there’s a good chance they’re not homeless. I was homeless for a short time, but I was bound and determined never to let it hold me down. Don’t ever think there isn’t a way out for a capable person. If I was sitting on a corner, it would mean I was lazy and didn’t want to earn my money. Minus the cases of mental illness, these men and women can make it in America, anyone can, you just have to be willing to work.

So enough excuses and acting like a victim, make what you want to happen, happen! No one is going to hand it to you, go out there and get it, and show all those people who never thought you would amount to anything, that you are so much more than they ever thought. You can do it. And if you don’t believe that you can, watch me, cause I’m just like you, I have nothing, but I refocused my energy and thoughts. I plan to win, win with me.