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11/06/2007

Monday, June 11th, 2007

Well today is the first day I will be back at gym after 4 months off!

4 Months ago I decided I was going to give up on bodybuilding, I was in a bad place, I didn’t want to carry on because I felt I would never be the best & I was missing out in life on the fun stuff. But 4 months later & now I have decided to get my ass back in the gym & get back into bodybuilding! This weekend while on a men’s conference @ church I felt God was telling me that I need to get back into bodybuilding, that is where he wants me & nothing will fill the gap I have at the moment but bodybuilding! It is a fundamental part of my life! Maybe it was a good thing that I took off, because I have been on a journey the last few months trying to figure out what a man is & how to be one. Now I feel like I have learned some lessons the last few months & am in a place now to do this for the long haul.

A quote came to mind:

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly … who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who have never known neither victory nor defeat”

- Teddy Roosevelt

I had read this quote a few times the last few months, but at the men’s conference God revealed it’s meaning for my life & it hit me like a brick wall, it was talking about me & getting back into gym, I had read this so many times before, but nothing!

So I am going to sign up today @ gym & will carry on this journey I started a few years ago, whether I win or lose!!!

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