#FreshStartsandFreshDreams

Well hello all my blogger friends!

          It has been.... A LONG time since I last wrote. And a lot has happened since I last wrote. First of all I did build my own longboard this summer, which is totally sweet to say... but i wish i could say I used it more. I don't really know how to ride it so I don't. I'm a little nervous to embarass myself, but I need to get over that. As well I was supposed to be going to New york to participate in the Color Run but in the end it didn't work out for financial reasons. It was disappointing but I know that I can always do one in the future, so I'm looking forward to that.

        I truly had an amazing summer I learned a lot and experienced a lot. I spent time with some awesome friends of mine. And now I'm here back at school it feels so natural to be here and I'm excited for this new school year. I love the beginning of new things because I always feel like its a fresh start to be a better person than you were before. My goal for this year is to really take in everything I can during my classes, and you know what I'm excited my classes are really interesting, so I'm excited for where I'll be after them.

        Now I have something to share, and this covers the fresh dreams part of my title. You guys are the pretty much the first people I'll have shared this with. Which is odd to think about because I havent wanted to share it with people I know yet, and yet I'm posting it on a public site. Oh well go big or go home right??

        So I have been trying to figure out what it is that I want to do for my career, I'm in school you'd think I'd know if I'm spending money for my education but nope I really had no idea. And last year I realized I didn't know exactly what I wanted to do but I knew that what ever it was I wanted to help people find hope. Well this summer is when it all began. I was watching my all time favourite T.V. Show, Extreme Makeover: Weightloss Edition, and the trainer on there is honestly my role model, he inspires me so much. If you've never seen the show, Chris Powell trains indivdual people for a year and helps morbidly obese people have a second chance at living. So people who are 500 lbs can lose up to 250 lbs. in one year. It's a mind blowing physical transformation, but the part that is more incredible than the physical transformation is the mental one. These individuals start this program thinking they're failures, they sometimes feel worthless, and often are holding a lot of emotional baggage, but throughout the year you see hope come into their lives and you see their self value rise, and life come back into them. It is so incredibly amazing to see this transformation. And this summer I said to myself if I could do anything in the world I would want to do what Chris Powell does, but I never really thought much of it, I didn't actually think I could or would ever be doing what Chris Powell does. But as the summer and the beginning of this school year progressed the desire to do that has only grown stronger in my heart. Now some of you might be thinking well if this is what you want go for it. And I would except you have to understand, I myself, am overweight. I can't just decide I want to go to school for Exercise Science and go for it. I'm not inshape enough to do it. But that has become my goal for this year. I want to be in shape enough that I can go to school for fitness, because I want to offer hope to others. and I think that if I can accomplish this goal I'll have a better understanding of what the people I'm trying to help go through because I have been overweight, and I have had to push myself to get into shape.

        Now I actually want to do something different than Chris, instead of helping individuals I want to trasnform families, through lifestyle coaching and training all of them not just one member of the family. I think families are so incredibly important and if the family is not on board with something it can be a burden on one person to try and change their lifestyle.

       Anyways thats where I am at now, I have a long way to go but I truly believe I could do this. But I'm going to need support from people, so please join me on this journey. Encourage me, and support me in this.

Infinite x's and o's
-A