235Lbs

I have always battled the bulge.
I'm back to the weight I was when I worked my butt off and was down to 175lbs. Over the last 4 years I have put it all back on. I'm looking for a more permanent weight loss plan. My last plan was run 5 miles a day. It worked but not practical with life always getting in the way. I might consider a life style change and do something crazy links go Vegan. I'm reading a book right now that might get me to try it for 6 weeks and see what I think.

Change

The last 3 years of my life has had more change in it than my last 10 maybe longer. I had always thought of change as a bad think and something I wanted to stay away from. The last 3 years have taught me if you are not into change expect more of the same or maybe worse. Change has been amazing for me and my family. Not sure if all change in my future will be good. I do know that no change will be bad, because I don't want more of  the same. Very excited for my future of change and all that it will bring.

777 = Knowledge

I have been wanting to limit my time on my phone and get back to reading my books. Since I purchased my smart phone my reading has dramatic decreased. I could blame words with friends, draw something,  twitter, Facebook, Google news, and this blog. Instead I'm going to blame myself and limit my phone time to the hours between 7am and 7 pm 7 days a week. I hardly use my phone for anything productive outside of this time frame. I have programed  my phone to be in airplane mode outside of those times.  Now if I wake early I will read and I will read before bed.

Quiet is not normal!!!

Last night I dropped my family off at the airport and made my drive home. The drive was oddly quiet and had almost a very empty feeling about. Today was very relaxing yet uncomfortable. I get so used to the balancing of a family I don't know what to do when it is just me. I miss my girls and can't wait to see them. I'm actually very ready to go to work tomorrow and have something to do. I reached a state of complete boredom today. It was nice for about an hour then I start to get restless.

Lost in bloggersfield

I always have the best of intention on this site so people can keep up with what is going on in my life but always takes a back seat. Next thing I know it has for ever and have left the family and friends checking back on my life to learn nothing new because I have posted nothing.  I'm going to try and this another try. This time I will be blogging for me as a life time stamp. I will randomly post happenings in my life as to reflect back on one day. Feel free to follow along and see what is new. I will be  posting for me so I can look back instead of entertaining people.
Enjoy!

Big city

This weekend I went back home to visit lots of friends and family in Phoenix. I forgot how big Phoenix is over the last year. I also forgot how fast paced life is their.  I do miss all of my family and friend but it is crazy to try and catch up with them all in 4days. Miss them all but also glad to be back home in my little town.

First visit to a place I called home for 32years.

Today is my first day ever visiting Arizona. 14 months ago I moved to California and have not been back to visit until today. It is very weired being back. It new but it's not. I know were I'm going and forget that I have CA plate on the back of my car. I'm staying with family and feel like I should go home and get ready for the day. Yet it is no longer down the street. It will be a very interesting visit to AZ. Can't wait to go out and see everything I know is already there.

My sweets.

Over the past week I cut sugar from my diet. I have decided to do this for the entire month. I'm not trying to lose weight as much as I'm trying not to put on 10 pounds this month. At my job this time of year cakes, cookies, donuts, and plenty of other sweets are all around me. I decided cut those out this month to save me a lot of added pounds this holiday season. If I don't eat your sweets this month, its me not your sweets.

Reading a book!

It shouldn't sound crazy but it does to me. I have read more books this year than I ever have in my life. Reading has turned out to be very beneficial to me in my life. I'm not a fan of books that are just for entertainment. I want a book that will teach me a useful skill or trade. Lately I have been reading a lot of books on sales and have recently started a book on management. I have tv, video games, and a smart phone to entertain me. I need books to guide me in to the future of sucess.
Looking forward to this beautiful holiday season and more books read in 2012 than ever before.

Good morning!

Its has been a crazy week and I'm so glad that the weekend has arrived. I do wish my children would not come in at 6AM to wake us up but I understand that is more than likely karma knocking on my door. I was always an early riser as a child. My mother always  hated it. Sorry about that my wife. Other than that everything is great in California and I can't wait until Christmas when we get to visit all of our family and friends in AZ.

It is so smart it is just dumb!

Today is the first day I have had a smart phone in over a year. I have missed it but man it does more than I actually thought. I thing it is funny that the word phone has anything to do with what this thing does. I have apps that I use more in a day than I will use the phone feature in a week. Look forward to more posts on this site, Twitter and Facebook. I think that one day soon these "phones" will almost replace computers for the average person. They have already in my opinion replaced digital cameras.

The vacation is over, but still lots of fun to be had.

Since I moved to Fresno in November I have been felling like I was on vacation. Even though I was working and Jenna was in school every weekend seemed long and every week seemed short. I guess it was the fact that everyday was so full of new and exciting things it seemed very unreal until the past couple of weeks. Both the girls are in school now, I was promoted to a management position that requires more responsibility, and things seem to be just a little too real lately.

Not that things are not going well or that we don't love living in Fresno because we do. It's just that all the new and exciting things have just became a part of normal life. The vacation might be over but we have lots of new adventures ahead us this year. Stay tuned it is going to be a great one!

Improvement has been made

At the start of the month I started to track my daily adventures at work to help me remember what I have been doing and talking about to my accounts. This week I have noticed a huge difference in my performance at work. This week before I go into an account I read what we talked about last time I was in the account and go in talking about things I never would of remembered before. I also remember it better because I wrote it down last week. Another amazing tool to remember and make my customers fell special. Happy customers make $$$ for me.

One month of self improvement test.

I have decided to track everything I do at work for one month and see if it helps me to remember and improve my sales tactics. I purchased a spiral note pad and labeled it August. Everyday I will write down what I did in every account in detail. At the end of everyday I sit in my van before I go into the house and read over all of the notes of my day and summarize everything I did wrong and what I did right. It is what I'm going to call my daily self improvement book. I will let you all know how things are going through the week and my thoughts on the outcome at the end of the month. I have left accounts knowing I said the wrong thing or said all the right things. I want to go over all those things at the end of everyday to make sure I do the right things more often and the wrong things less often.

Me getting older is the easy part.

Today was my 32nd birthday. This morning my 7 year old Jenna and 4 year old Mikayla were so excited to see me and wish me a happy birthday before I went to work. They spent the entire day planing the perfect birthday for me. When I say they, I meant mom drove and paid but Jenna and Mikayla made all of the decisions. My little girls decided since I was so lucky to have Cars 2 open on my birthday they must take me to see it. The first Cars was a hit in the Mitchell house and we had seen it a hundred times or so. They also decided my party needed a theme so the got me Cars 2 plates, and cake decorations. Jenna was very upset that mom sad no to the pinata idea. When I got home I was showered with love from 2 very excited little girls wishing me a happy birthday. I was given a stack of homemade cards, and gifts. Then my girls preceded to tell me about all of the hard work they had put into my birthday over dinner. Once dinner was over my 7 year old had a surprise for me. Hanging from the stairs was a homemade Pinata. She had tied a string to a plastic bag that hung from the top of the stairs. She then handed me a large TV remote to swing at it. Once my eye mask was securely on and I had been spun around 3 time. I went at the Pinata wielding my large TV remote with my 7 year old controlling the string and giggling uncontrollably. When I finally got the Pinata open a piece of paper fell out. I opened it and Jenna said it is a birthday song I wrote for you dad. She got her guitar, looked up at me and sang the cutest birthday song ever. She didn't even need the song sheet. She had practiced so much she new all of the words.

Sitting in the move theater tonight with the most amazing little family ever. I looked at Jenna and Mikayla and thought to myself. I could care less about how old I get every year. What scares the hell out of me is that one day these girls are going to grow up, and I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to handle that.

I also want to put out a very special thanks to the amazing love of my life that helped assist my daughters to day and making my favorite cake for me. I love you so much.