The seventh year dies

Ok so this post comes a bit late, mostly because I've been very sick the past week. It hasn't been fun. I had a post written but just scrapped it and am starting from scratch.

Why does the New Year motivate everyone to make change? This motivation lasts about a week, then we continue living our lives the way we have always lived them and a year later, very little has changed.

Well, to an extent, I'm no different. The new year does motivate me to change. Last year I swore to lose weight. I was at 195 in January, and within a few months I had lost 25 pounds and I've kept them off ever since.

But weight is a very minor thing to me. This year I'm changing my life.

I've said it before and I'm saying it again: Life isn't a 9-5 job that you hate. Life is waking up and being able to smile. You have to change you're own life.

School is finally ending for me this year, and Ive got to do something. So my "New Years Resolution" is that I'm going to do whatever it takes to progressivly move closer to the success I want with my life.

You have to be fierce, you have to push and shove sometimes, you have to do what it takes, and I need to step up and start doing all these things.

My main focus is going to be my books. End of Days book 1 is finished being edited and starting february I'm going to query my life away. I'm not going to care about what time of year it is, I won't stop until I have a deal.

I also have been writing another book in the End of Days series. I resolve to have that finished by summer and write at least 5 days out of the week.

I'm also promising myself that I'm going to keep my skating up to par.

And I'm sure many people have this same resolution ... I want to find a good job I'm happy with.

I have to have fierce dedication and focus to do this. I'm going to do what I have to do.

"To be successful at the level I wanted, it took such a desperate obsessive focus" - Will Smith

My adventure begins here and will one day end on the pages in your hand - Andy