The Secrets to my Success!

      Tomorrow my family with be attending church as usual, only we will be missing our normal service for a 10 minute ceremony to dedicate our 2 year old daughter Isabella. As a father in today's world how do you successfully stand in front of a congregation of people, whom you hardly know, and promise to teach your daughter about all of God's love and marvelous wonder?      You see I met Jesus when I was 19 after years of struggle and a life that was in shambles. It took me almost 10 years to truly recognize what it means to "claim" to be a Christian, and folks i'm about a 1.2 out 10(thousand). But tomorrow I get the opportunity to stand in front of lots of people and make a promise that I will do all I can to be a full time father, full time husband, full time provider, and a full time Christ follower. That's a lot of hats to wear, good thing I don't need a comb. I do know this though, if it were not for the Grace of God I would have n...

     I did my research and apparently the secret to a successful Blog is to post weekly articles and daily posts. So I'm trying to get my routine down to see what works best for me, so please be patient I promise it will be worth it as I work through the kinks. Here is what I have so far, weekly secret's to what I consider a way of life, and weekly installments for cheating the system(don't let "the man" keep you down!) So I get a cup of coffee I come to my office and crank the itunes and get cracking.      What is a cheat day? i'm no bodybuilder, I could be a model but I don't have time for the paparazzi! In my opinion a cheat day would be doing your best to maintain a sound diet and healthy lifestyle 6 days a week and being a normal person once a week or so(technically you could call it a cheat week with a normal day). Life is so busy and most days including weekends are so hard to have a routine, plus if anyone out there is like me my caree...

I wanted to get this one out before tonight in hopes it "inspired' someone. So the last date my wife and I had I wanted to go all out and make it memorable seeing as our household requires a lot of work and personal time is limited. We are also on a budget, now granted we are a little more outgoing that your typical couple.so here it goes:     We started out by heading to a place where we could express ourselves and no be to out of place at the same time, Wal-mart. You can walk into this store with a thong, rubber rain boots and turtle neck and no one will ever judge you, you'd probably end up on a website somewhere but who cares right?So I wanted to make the evening fun, challenging, and rewarding. So I designed a "three course" date night. So for the first course, or "appetizer" I challenged my wife to a contest, we had to find a product  that started with the same letter as our first name and then get a random stranger to take a photo with us while...

      I will never understand the obsession over or why everybody has to have a vanity plate. Most of them don't even make sense like JK H20 LOL. I mean do people really put thought into these, or did they do it on purpose?And it's the "oops, I drunk text you while driving on a bumpy road in the middle of traffic and no one proof read it before I sent it" type plates that I shake my head at the most. You see, I spend about 4 hours a day in traffic so I see lots of these plates so maaaaaaybe I obsess over them a little too much, so what! But it's partly because I get stuck behind people daily and all I can do is try and figure out what the plate says, so don't judge me.      But when I think about it maybe that person is just trying to express their sense of uniqueness or maybe they are creative, or maybe they are just trying to drive the bald guy behind them nuts by boggling his mind for 2 hours! Who knows but I think it has a mu...

     In so many ways, God answers our prayers. Always on his own time and aways in his own way. That is in my opinion the "mystery" and beauty of God's work. He can slap you across the face, or just silently work his ways. My pastor spoke tonight about prayer and how we should all have a favorite place to pray. I say you gotta pray first! I fall so amazingly short in this area, I consider my prayer life to be more like tweet's or status updates to God. I do have a favorite "place" though....it's on the steps with my wife before I go to work(when I actually take the time) That is when/where I truly feel closest to him, I can feel Jesus wrapping his arms around us. But Isn't that funny? " when I have time " for the God of all things, who SPOKE the universe into existence. The God who always has time for me, yet i'm too "busy" for God! Do you find yourself doing the same? I do it all the time!      But yet God has been faith...

     Why would anyone ever think this is a subject worth spending a second of their day on? If your hungry just eat something right? Isn't that why we have these lovely signs, and golden arches beckoning at our hearts and um, wallets?      Here is why, tonight I left the gym torched and yearning for some fuel to feed my fire. I had an important meeting with a friend that just happens to be at a place that serves giant slices of pizza. For anyone who doesn't know me like my precious, amazing, and wonderful wife does, I crave pizza every second of each day and it is my default food when I am hungry. That being said, I passed on the delicious, gooey, cheesy substance for a salad. Well that went over like a boat anchor in the shallow end of a kiddie pool(not real far). I left the meeting and called my wife to tell her I was on my way home and was starving and she said exactly what I didn't want to hear, but needed to hear, and would have also told h...

     Hmmmmm, to sit on the coach or not to sit, that is the question. A successful workout begins with the notion that I am doing better than I was the day before, no matter what I do. Any motion is forward motion when it comes to physical activity in which the human body was intended to have daily! I have no real expectation when I start out but I always have a result at the end and though it varies from time to time the change still happens. I never played much sports and I traded my high school playing days in for an apron flipping burgers at a local. So everyday I hit the gym at the ripe young age of 29 is better than all the times I didn't. They say not to miss a day, but I say it's okay sometimes. In the wisdom filled words of Ferris B. "life moves pretty fast...if you don't stop and look around every once in awhile you might miss it." I learned the hard way after years of neglect that my body was not designed for double cheeseburgers and french fries with...

     It's known all around the world and just about all of us like it. I never truly appreciated the magical, soothing effects of the "magic bean" till about a year ago when I decided to force myself to become an addict. I am a recovering energy drink survivor and haven't touched the chemically engineered substance since. Yikes! I wish people understood what that stuff does to your body.      So, not only is coffee God's answer to the common groggy morning, it also has(when used properly) amazing powers to burn fat and provide much needed antioxidants. Now don't let the Barista convince you that a Starbucks coffee is any better than the cup of perfection you can create at home. You see, Starbucks, which has a very outspoken political agenda(they hate the military), well is just plain overpriced and over hyped. So yesterday I went to a place called World Market which is a great place for amazingly hard to find and uncommonly used produc...

The secret to my success #1(a new series)      So I could not figure out how to get out the door and still eat a good cheap breakfast. I hate microwave sandwiches. I doubt I was the first to think of this, but here it goes : I have a single egg pan that I picked up at wal -mart that works awesome! I cook Two scrambled eggs (one real, one "egg white" that I mix in a blender which is by far the superior way to make scrambled eggs). It forms a patty then I add a little salt/pepper. Then I stick it in a small Tupperware bowl topped with a slice of cheese, turkey sandwich slices, and two pieces bacon! I use pre- cooked bacon because target had an  Oscar Mayer bacon coupon and I used a manufacturer's coupon making the savings well worth it. Come to find out, the precooked packages have the same amount of bacon as regular ones and they are only $2.99 anyway. Then the next morning I pop it in the microwave for 30 seconds and put it on a whole wheat English mu...