Earlier today I was reaching for an envelope out of my desk drawer when a little blue book with grey duct tape on the binding spoke to me and I couldn’t resist but to open it and start reading. The blue book happens to be the journal I had with me in South America during my time filming for Discovery Channel’s, The Wheel. If you want the breakdown of the show, give er a solid Google :)
For the sake of this blog, I will refrain from details about my experience. Instead, I want to share an excerpt from my little blue book that really spoke to me today when I was reading it.
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Would you look at that, the day of love. Some call it Valentine’s Day. I call it back day.
I wrote a lengthy caption for a photo I recently took that I would like to use for today’s blog. I want you to take things one step further though… Instead of just answering the questions in your head, I challenge you to sit down and really think them through. It’s one thing reading something, and another applying the lesson. If you really seek change, these are all questions I have asked myself and wrote down the answer to. One week. Wow, I am doing it. I have committed to publishing one blog per day for the last seven days. Cool right? Actually, yes. I have wrote more blogs in the last week than I have in my entire life. It’s not 100, or 1000, it’s a START. To close out the first week of my challenge I want to just say, thanks. Yep, that’s it, thank you. Thank you to the strangers who barely know me who have found resonance in my daily thoughts. Thank you to my friends who have reached out to let me know they are proud of me. Thank you to the couple family members who let me know they are reading and the rest of my family who just are creepers on my page. And thank you to me, for not giving up and always resorting back to my “why” when times get tough. In the last week I have learned a lot about myself. The most transformative of which is letting go of my resistance to writing. One week ago when I first started, the thought of publishing 30 pieces of blog content gave me anxiety. I could feel a wall of resistance wanting to paralyze me into not letting my thoughts just roll. Somedays I feel like my blogs are incredibly well written, others, I feel they are complete dog shit. The one variable that hasn’t changed is just fucking doing it. By forcing myself to just do it I can honestly say I feel as if I have broken through…
Ideas have started to flow to me more easily and effortlessly. No longer do I have that sick pitted feeling in the bottom of my stomach whenever I think about writing. I am free, my mind is fresh, and I feel myself growing each time I sit my ass down to write. This is a lesson that everyone can learn from! Seven days ago I had only written a handful of blogs in my entire life and I committed to writing one blog per day for thirty days. This commitment is something I have yet to do even remotely close to ever before. I was a noob, rookie, and I was scared and being scared is exactly what drove me to start. That’s just it, do you have something in your life that you have been wanting to do but are scared to commit? Yeah? So, why haven’t you started? I know you’re scared, but, let me tell you something. The same fear that was paralyzing me is now the same fear that motivates me. IN ONLY 7 DAYS! In 7 days I was able to transform the shakiness to confidence by simply starting something and committing to doing it. It’s just like when you first start working out at a gym. The first few times you might be a little unsure and find yourself finding any reason a good one to miss out. Or, maybe you are wanting to take control of your health and are afraid of letting go in order for change. Whenever you start something new at first it might be a little overwhelming, frustrating, and a fight with yourself to commit or not. Once you make this commitment all the feelings of fear and anxiety are turned into feelings of inspiration. That’s my challenge to you today… You have watched me commit to something that I have been wanting to do, it’s your turn. I challenge you to stop watching me and JOIN ME!! Commit tonight to the very thing you have been putting off that might just be your way into spiritual salvation. Day 7 is a wrap and that’s 23 For 30! This is my Monday morning rant. I would give more context, but, we can just say I was heated for a little while this morning.
Let me get real honest for a minute... You want to know the number 1 reason why most won’t reach their goals? Laziness.
Anyway, this song sparked the idea for today’s blog. In fact, I am going to actually continue on my thoughts from a previous blog where I touched on conditional love relationships. The blog was absent of my perspective on romantic relationships and how this kind of love has the power to steer your life. Since good ole Duke popped up and brought me back to a time where I was very much in love, I feel that now is the time I can dive into this topic.
What about romantic relationships? “One, two three…
Jumping off the porch like mom’s not home Tell me why the best things feel so wrong.” I heard these lyrics this evening and it brought me to a place a nostalgia. Don’t you love when you hear a song and it can bring you back to that exact time and place when you would be your top listen? Tonight, I ate dinner with my Sister and her Fiancé at their house. Before dinner, my go-to summer 2017 song played which was the first time hearing it for quite some time. The place this song brought me was a pretty low spot for me. Physically, mentally, spiritually, and financially I was lost. I had just broke up with my girlfriend while living in Kauai, Hawaii and I was rooming in my Dad’s basement. Amongst all this chaos this is the one song that I found myself playing over and over and over again... So what? I wish you knew how many times I wrote the first line and deleted it. So, instead of getting stuck at the start I’m going to just let this be how I start todays blog.
Day 4, am I already out of ideas? I want my content to have some variety and not be the same fluffy motivational stuff that you read, get pumped up for like five minutes until your’e distracted by some silly cat video and just like that you wasted a moment to act on the universe telling you that something is right. Maybe that’s what I will talk about today. Knowing when something is right… And just like that, I just wrote six lines of almost nothing and by just forcing myself to start I was able to connect the dots and find a topic of discussion for today. So… I could take this many directions but for today’s discussion l will direct my tone toward the 5 signs that I feel are evident when you’re on the right path… 10:51 pm.
Call it procrastination, call it lazy, but what you can’t call it is giving up only two days in, because Momma ain’t raise no quitter! So, we meet again. I must note that the motivational rah rah feeling I had two days ago when I created this challenge for myself has already worn off. The excitement always fades when it comes time to put in the actual work. On days that you don’t feel on fire, you must light the fire within and remember your why. It feels good to get myself uncomfortable. I made this challenge public because I want someone to call me the fuck out if I don’t own up to what I have set to achieve in the next 27 days. Instead of another rant, tonight I would like to tell you a funny story that seems to be categorized in my memory as incredibly vivid and easy to recall. Since this is the case, I will tell the story without making it too long because if you have ever heard me tell a story in person you better have your popcorn, toothbrush, and a change of clothes ready because it’s going to be a minute. The year, 1998 Here we are, Day 2 of 30. Wow, I am actually doing this damn thing. I woke up this morning and realized the commitment I have made for the next 28 days now. Thank you all for your positive feedback, it means the world that I have a handful of people who find value in my words.
Today’s blog is my 7am rant after doing my morning scroll through Instagram and seeing corny fitness post after fitness post. I have wanted to express my thoughts on a platform where I know I can receive some valuable feedback if you don’t agree with me. Maybe it’s my own ego that delivers the content for this rant, but I feel there is some great context that can serve us all. I usually don’t share my rants as they simply just take up space in my notes because after reading most of them I find some sort of fault in my words and a way to change my perspective to become a better man. You can find out a lot about yourself by reading objectively the thoughts you write. These blogs are a major tool for me to become a better man. Thank you for being part of this journey… Sorry to disappoint, but, no, this blog isn’t a continuance of “The Monday Guide to Winning,” or even my thoughts on romantic relationships and how love influences our lives. In fact, I have yet to stick to a single word I have written in previous blogs about future blogs where I would go into more detail or continue on a subject matter.
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