Changing direction...

This BLOG is about to take on a new format and head in a new direction. I don't know how or what yet but I am tired of the daily grind and quite frankly don't like the results or satisfaction I get from work. That is not saying that I am not happy, because I truly am. I have an awesome wife and family, a nice house (although overpriced), a good job that brings in good money. Beyond that, there is a void...maybe I am hitting an early mid life crisis...maybe not. I have just had frustrations over what I need to be doing in life and I would not say it is just a rut or a phase. Things are "out of balance" in a sense and I need to get them back....push a little harder....break the comfort zone.

I've been dealing with this for a while but think it all hit home the other day when I heard this guy on the Jim Rome show. Jim Maclaren, http://www.jimmaclaren.com, was primed for greatness. A college football, lacrosse, and rugby star, who went on to become a highly competitive triathlete. Anyway, he lost his leg in a motorbike accident at 22, but came back to race competitively on an artificial leg. Quite a challenge just to live with only one leg, but to race with only one? As if that was not a big enough set back he was involved in a road bike accident while competing a few years later that basically left him paralyzed from the neck down. Here is a guy with all the physical potential in the world now rendered totally immobile.

The story doesn't stop there...he battled a cocaine addiction after the second accident and was literally at the end of it. Then one day in some way he turned it around....decided to start living again. In great pain, with great effort he has regained limited mobility in his arms and legs. Truly a miracle. Now he writes and speaks all over the world.

I guess my point is, here is a guy that had every reason in the world to give up, throw in the towel, or who could just sit and complain everyday...but he doesn't. Instead he works to make things better for others. It's a guy like this, and even a guy like Lance Armstrong who you look at and just think "wow!". Even more so, this potential is in all of us. We don't need to face cancer, a tragedy, or a life threatening event to find it either.

Anyway, after listening to this interview I thought "What the hell do I have to complain about?" It also has been in my head ever since...bringing up the constant fact that every little worry in daily life is totally minute compared to things like this....there are many things that are bigger than all of us. Since then, I have been questioning things over and over again, in many different ways. Maybe some of these things I will find the answers to....others maybe not so easily.

I don't even know what prompted me to put this on here....maybe only one, maybe two people will read this thing. But I realize, its not for whoever reads this, its a point for me to focus, that's it. I already feel much better in the 10 minutes I have spent on this. Who knows...maybe I will never write on here again...maybe I will totally change it. I have come to realize that there definitely are bigger and better things out there. I am going to go find some of them!!!!!!!