Another year has come to a close which allows a lot of people to reflect on their life and was happened. As we start this new decade my life has had many new changes and 2019 was a representation of transition for me. In the outline fashion the main points to hit on were

A. married a year

  1- moving into a role of Husband

  2- moving into role of Step father

B. Buying and selling a house

   1- major repairs to new house in order to live there

   2- having a mortgage, who am I?

C. Getting back into the 1700 lb total realm with training

   1- 2 different weight classes

D. Revising new training methodology

E. A dog

F. 1 year wedding anniversary

G. Health insurance premiums

H. Life insurance??!!!

I. Retirement funds

J. Learned how to stone a house....

K. Learned how to build a fire pit

L. Uncovered a hidden garden

M. Paid to build a website

   1- website headaches

N. Launched a website

I. Grew a powerlifting team to over 20 members

P. Grew my online business

Q. Present my first seminar with my wife

R. Bought my first rack from EliteFTS

S. Bought a second EliteFTS rack — I can’t stop

T. Took my son to his first car show

U. Took a family trip to Florida

V. Lost a grandmother

W. Landscaped a back yard

X. Made lots of mistakes

Y. Grew in my faith

Z. Was shown grace by my amazing wife that I cannot be more blessed by

Moving into 2020 I can already see that the learning, growing, and building of 2019 has paid off. God has blessed me with the ability to work less, make more, and still be able to spend time helping raise two children and learning how to be a husband and father figure. Don’t get me wrong, I still suck at it and struggle on a daily basis but without the God-given gifts  I have received and the path that I was allowed to walk down things would be very different.