goals | Schroeder's Voice

Just yesterday, I made a decision to try and lose some weight. If you know my wife and I, or you read my post last week, you know that my wife has been on a health journey for quite some time now. In the last year, she has improved her physical, mental and spiritual health by leaps and bounds. You would probably think that this is the reason that I decided to get healthy. The truth is while my wife’s journey has inspired me in many aspects of my life, it wasn’t her weight loss that caused me to make a decision to lose some myself. Actually, it was a competition offering money and cigars to the person that lost the most weight. I love cigars and I could always use some more money. So the incentives of the top prize urged me to commit to doing something that I have known I should do for quite some time now.

Motives and Incentives full post

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I hope everyone had an excellent Christmas and was able to spend some time with friends and family. Now, here we are looking at yet another New Year. I’ll be honest this is one holiday that I never really understood the excitement for. I mean it is really just another day. It just so happens that this day starts a new calendar year. I’ve never found that my life changed drastically from December 31^st to January 1^st. I’ve never been a drinker or a social person so the New Year’s parties were never really any fun for me. I’m a night owl so staying up past midnight isn’t really that special. I’ve never been one to make New Year’s resolutions and I’m certainly not putting on those goofy New Year’s glasses. I’m not trying to be a downer; I just really don’t get it. All it has ever signified for me is 2 – 3 months of having to scratch out the date whenever I write it because I wrote the wrong year.

Happy New Year full post

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