My Epiphany

Walking down the hall at work the other day, I was struck by the horrifying realization that I am turning 31 this year. Following this thought I could not help but ask, have I achieved the goals I hoped to accomplish when I was young? I immediately knew the answer, it was a resounding no! I am happy, but my younger self created such an ambitious idea of who I should become. I have let that young man down and the only one to blame is me.

While cliché, I feel this call to action. It is time to take charge of my life and create the moments around me on my terms. No more wallowing in regret because of lost time. Every day I will reach towards achievements that can transform me into a better person. No longer will I allow stress and laziness get into the way. I need to do what I want to do. No more excuses… period.

This blog will be a journal describing my rebirth as a better human being. The hope is to monitor my progress as a means of self-reflection motivation. For readers who stop by, I hope you find some entertainment in this blog and become active participants in motivating me towards the correct course. Perhaps readers will learn some new tricks that they can use themselves.

This new desire to reach my full potential flooded my head with a large number of ideas and goals. During the next few weeks I will focus organizing those random thoughts into something that I can use to move my life forward.

While some people might consider it to be a mid-life crisis, I consider it to be a rebirth. Have you had an epiphany like mine?

And I'm Back

Please join me in taking a giant breath…

And exhale…

Ok, now I’m good to go. The school semester of pain is now over and I have some time off till my next round of classes begin. I diffidently learned that taking four classes at once is not a good idea. Doing so left me very burned out and grouchy. I had all this plans but simply no motivation to act upon any of them. So I took the last couple of days off to recharge and now I am ready to go. I actually feel pumped and full of idea and things that I want to do. It is only going to take some time for me to get everything organized. That seems to part of my problem. I am so scattered brained. Because of this expect the next couple of weeks to be full of basically ramblings as I try to get a grasp on the craziness that is going on in my head!

 

I also plan on getting back to my 30 day challenge, promise. 

Stay tuned!

31 Day Challenge: Me in Six Words

Today's challenge is an interesting one. In just six words I am to write a memoir. For about the last 20 minutes I have been going through different iterations of basically the same thing, dealing with how I am who I am due to my friends and family. And I think I may have done it. So here it goes!

Friends and family make the man.

Try it yourself and leave something in the comments!

31 Day Challenge: Why Start This Journal

I guess I should explain myself. This whole little piece of the internet sea is from the inspiration of post from the Art of Manliness website. I always thought that it would be nice to keep a journal and a blog, so I decided that I would start this site. And to get me going I thought that I would take the 31 day journal challenge. If you don't feel like visiting the link, though you should as it is a great site, the general idea is that they give a topic each day to encourage you to write. The idea is that by taking the challenge, a habit of writing will form. So hence, this site.

For the first topic I am supposed to write about why I want to start a journal. I guess I just really always wanted to start one. I am one of those people with many ideas but yet can be very scattered brained. I think that having my thoughts put into physical (er...digital) words then perhaps I can become a bit more focused of an individual. It will be interesting to see if this challenge does change my habits or opinions.

As an added benefit this challenge will help me with my writing. This is important for two reasons. I am starting college back up and have been so removed from writing papers that I fear I may be a bit rusty. You know what they say, practice makes perfect. I also just have always dreamed about becoming a writer and perhaps this may help me learn skills that I would need if I ever do choose to head the direction.

That is it for now, I hope some people may follow along with my journey. Perhaps I will not be the only person to learn from this. Heck, maybe you will even be entertained!

Have any of you tried this before?