Well year #42 is here and as I sit back and think about as many of them as I can I wonder where they have all went? I am not sure but I can hear those in my family that are older always saying “how time flies the older you get.” Well, no doubt about that.

I am not sure what to say about the years that have already passed. I guess I have more questions sometimes than answers still. I believe some of those questions are to remain with me until I do find the answers, maybe, I will never find them or just maybe I am not supposed to. What I do know is that it will be interesting next year to look back at where I was today versus then. It is really the whole reason that I have set out on this journey of IM 70.3 and a quest to truly find who I am and what I am made of.

I guess at 42 its still never to late to change. Now don’t get me wrong. I am truly blessed with healthy children, a great wife, a wonderfully crazy and dysfunctional family, no debt and a career that I enjoy. What I would like to know is how far I can take things with work and how hard I can push myself. I have pushed myself at times and over came several challenges.  Heck some times I think of just how lucky I am to still be here on this earth. That last statement leads me to believe God has let me remain on this earth for a greater purpose.

Since the start of my training I have had plenty of time to think about life and my relationship with God and his purpose for me. In Proverbs 20:5 the Bible says “The purposes of a person’s heart are deep waters, but one who has insight draws them out”. Well, I am hoping to find my insight and draw out that purpose. I know through time and prayer God will lead me to my purpose. I know I wasted a few years back in the day but its never to late to find that purpose.

I was listening to one of Rich Roll’s podcast the other day and he said something that stuck with me. He was answering a listener question about life choices and what this individual should do. Rich had a simple but yet poignant response. He said” Look you do not get a do over in life!” He is absolutely correct in that and I feel to many of us spend time trying to find a purpose or happiness instead of having a purpose or happiness. We never truly live. Well, I have decided to live and make the best of what time I have left here on this earth. So tomorrow I will wake up and start again! May the next year be truly fulfilling for me and each day better than the next.

Best~

Nathan