What is my purpose in life?

As the 21st approaches, and I am getting ready to celebrate my forty-second birthday, I am inspired by one of many books I am reading to come up with a purpose for my life. As I sat down and did the exercises that helped me create such a goal, I started thinking about the direction of my blog.

I am not only here to loose weight (I have now spent ten days at 199), but to inspire others to achieve their potential. I hope that my good times will teach others things to try and my mistakes will serve as inspiration...at least I am willing to try new things in order to get healthy and look good. This is the one place where I have kept my thoughts for the longest time. I should embrace my purpose in life and teach through this.

So, you may be wondering, what goal did I come up with? What is my purpose?

My purpose is to use my creativity and my ability to learn on the fly to teach others and help them achieve a world in which we all take care of the planet and each other.

Now all I have to do is figure out how to do it, and how to make a living while doing that, and I will be in the right path. Keep trying.

From happiness to dissapointment all in one day

Today, I finally broke the 200 pound line. I officially weight 199.6 pounds. And I am still at that time of the month when I am retaining water. I screamed when I saw that. I was really happy. I was excited for the day ahead, election day. It is a new day and I have a great outlook.

Now, it is 7:30 PM and the election results for PR are in. The people of the Commonwealth of PR just elected a man that is turning this country over to the 100 richest people in the country in order to "revive" the economy. When have you ever seen a millionaire do something for the good of the "people". When a millionaire is into making money for his company or his business, he does not give a damn about anyone else. There are only a few notable exceptions to that rule, like Oprah and Tiger Woods, but even Ted Turner and Bill Gates made huge fortunes BEFORE they decided to help others. I'm astonished at the results, but it all goes to show you, people will do the weirdest things.

So I am upset about the results and extremely dissapointed. However, I am not going to sit there and eat and have yet another reason to get upset. I am going to clean my office and start working towards the next twenty pounds. I am going to make an action plan for the party I have on the 15th, and I am going to plan my birthday. And then, I will sit down and figure out what to do with the rest of my life. Because the life I have now, in the place that I am now, is not healthy for me. Hopefully tomorrow I will be in a better mood, but right now, I am giving myself permission to be upset, without stuffing myself with food.

Keep trying.

Proud achievements

Small post, just wanted to update.

Since Oct. 2nd, 2008 I have lost five pounds. I had one cup of soda in the last 26 days and that was enough to sour on the whole experience. How I miss Cokes, but I did say boycott. Other sodas do not taste the same, and so, the urge to drink soda is greatly diminished by my ethical conscience.

I have also started walking again, and have accumulated 22 miles in the last nine days. My legs are feeling like jello but I can see muscles begin to make an appearance. Hopefully, my goal of loosing 20 pounds by Christmas will be easily accomplished as I add more exercises.

On the personal stuff - I am working on rediscovering who I am and what I want to do with the rest of my life. I have made some progress and I know that for now, I do not want the rat race, even if that means making more with less money.

Whatever happens, gotta keep trying.