I want to start off by saying how excited I am to write this post. For a while, I felt like I was just coasting through life. I was not living a bad life, just one that I felt had nothing exciting happening. I have a wife, house, and started a business, but still I felt like nothing exciting was going on. Within the past month, especially the last week, things have gotten much more admirable for my family.
First I want to say thank you to CrossFit Eternal. This place has been a blessing to us. We have made so many new friends that we feel like we have known forever. I am being challenged again, which really helps me keep myself occupied. After one month at Eternal, I have officially been invited to participate as a dragon slayer. The dragon slayers are a group of comprised of people with the talent and admiration to make it to the CrossFit games. I currently train with the #4 female, #18 male and #29 male finishers in the 2012 Mid Atlantic Region. This is a great opportunity for me to push myself and train with the best of the best in the Charlotte area. It brings me back to my days as a college football player competing to be the best I can be every day.
The next thing that has sprung out of nowhere is the growth of my business. I created RAW Performance because I have a passion for living a healthy lifestyle. I know not all people have the money, time, knowledge ect.. to get the supplements and weightlifting equipment that they need to continue living a healthy life. I wanted to be able to supply people with these items at a much more reasonable price than the big chain stores. I like to get to know my customers and make new friends while seeing them exceed their own personal goals. In the last month my business has far surpassed any expectations I have had for it. I have made a lot of great contacts and even better friends through the growth of my business. Hopefully this continues to get bigger, and I can continue to change the lives of my customers.
Lastly, as many of you may know, my wife and I have been waiting on a house that was on short sale since the beginning of March. The more I thought about the house, the more reservations I had about it. It would soon need a new roof, new AC, new kitchen, and many more renovation that I did not want to think about. I never said too much because my wife was so excited about the house. By chance and boredom, I was surfing the internet this week and found some houses in a location that we were interested in. I found a brand new house that had just been built, cheaper than the house we were waiting on, and just about the same size. With it being a new house, all of the renovations we would have to make, were already done. We would be paying less, and ready to move in. I called the Realtor, and we looked at the house that night. Both of us fell in love with the house, and we found ourselves signing the paperwork on a brand new house the next morning. Everything should go through smoothly, and we should expect to be moving in mid-August. We can not wait to have the space to have our friends over and move around. This is another blessing, because this week we also found out that Tiffany made a 160 on her LSAT and should be a shoe in to get into Charlotte School of Law.
We have to stay humble, but this past month has been one of the best in my life. So many great things have been happening to us. I am glad that all of our hard work has paid off, and we are able to do the things that make us happy. I hope we are able to continue fulfilling all of our dreams and make those around us better people as well.
