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The Beginning of my Journey

I am starting this blog to track my progress with multiple different super important things in my life. I am sure you can relate, even possibly give me advice throughout my journey. To be honest, I really have the slightest idea of where to start. Hence why I the title of this first entry is "The beginning of my journey". In order for it to make bit of sense I will pick it up from a few months ago...

I woke up one morning and decided that I needed to start a solid morning routine. I was pretty sick of waking up tired, lethargic and needing to be the soul energy providing to my seven year old daughter for her to get to school. Something sort of a power routine, a way to get my mind and body warmed up to start my day. To be honest it almost felt like for the first time in my life I've actually needed to "wake" up. Is it strange for a 29-year-old man that’s married with two children and has a promising career in something he absolutely loves to do? I guess sometimes things come a little slower for others ha-ha, I'm sure your reading this and hopefully you have experienced something along these same lines at one point in your life. Or maybe you are going to experience it. Well, in this search for a morning power routine I came across a video on YouTube where a man by the name of Jim Kwik had a video documenting his "10-morning habits geniuses use to jump-start their brain". Now, I in no way think that I myself am a genius (which now I sort of do, real metaphysical thoughts being processed right about now) but I decided to give the video a watch. There were very simple things that made sense and I was able to adopt it pretty easily but one stood out to me like a glaring light bulb. Reading 20-30mins a day at the start of my day. Now, I am not going to lie I have not taken reading the least bit serious since leaving college. In fact, the only reads as of recent were Facebook feeds and Instagram notes. I also associated reading with nighttime to help get settled in for bed. I mean this was what I was doing with my children before they went to bed. This was something I wanted to conquer so I gave it a try.

I wanted to really target books that were a part of the self-help genre, real uplifting powerful stories that one could use as a catapult to success. Tony Robbins, Robert Kiyosaki, Napoleon Hill, Wallace D. Wattles and Daymond Johns books were all heavily in my new found reading routine. In fact, I still haven't been able to put these books down. If you are familiar with these authors I am sure you feel the same way. It’s also brought me to a realization that the people that choose to read my blog notes understand the above mentioned books material already so I wouldn't even have to mention the titles.

Long story short, their books have helped my thought process immensely, to the point I feel like a genius (metaphysical thinking back at it again). I have begun to exit out everything in my life that is negative and consequently (yet thankfully) caused me to think so differently about what I want out of life.

Now, my post began with “I started this blog to track different things...blah blah blah". I guess I should try to explain....attempt to explain what these “different things” are. So (deep inhale) here we go. My family, which consists of my lovely wife, my 7 year old daughter and my 3 year old son, my job, being an amateur nak muay, my introduction into minimalism, my new found love for reading, my new thoughts on wealth and happiness, my leanings of the stock market, my love for combat sports, my focus on acquiring assets, my hand at entrepreneurship... this can go on forever and ever.

In a nutshell. This is for me to find me. In order to do that, you have to start somewhere. Why not here? I mean, I've technically already started in other ways like reading and writing in my journal. No matter what I read or who I look to as mentors in where I want to be. I would always hear "it is not real until you write it down". Well I've made it real then, this is my goal at making it more real? Writing it down for the world to see...

Reg