The Jacob Generation and Why I Set a Weight Requirement to Date!

Sorry! I been trying to write a post for a while but I just couldn’t get it right.  But here it is!

A few days ago I was thinking about relationships and how Jacob had to work for his wife, Rachel. I saw a lot of similarities between our current generation and Jacob. He was pretty lazy. He used whatever gimmicks and tricks he had to get what he wanted. He lived an easy life and took shortcuts. I think back than, he was in the minority but today it’s the mass majority.

Not that none of us worked hard for what we have but the mindset of what’s the easiest way to get something. He was like that until he met Rachel. She was his true love and for the first time in his life, he had to work. He worked 7 years for a chance to marry her just to get tricked into marrying her older sister. So he had to work another 7 years for Rachel. He endured and took no shortcuts with that.

This story stood out to me because I think many of us have that mindset as Christians, that I need to be okay with being single and maybe if I’m okay with that, God will bring me someone.

I think that’s the possible overall outline but we consistently forget we need to work and put effort to become the person our future spouses will marry and effort to love on that person. It’s the honest to goodness outline but I think many people look at it as a shortcut.

“How can I be okay with being single the fastest”

It’s not really about that and subconsciously on a deep level I think we kind of think that.

This is why I set a work requirement for my time to start dating again. I need to work and reach a goal before I can date again. Something I can put effort into and build my discipline.

I don’t want to take the easiest way, I want to take the most beneficial way.

Jan 23 Fitness Update

Jan 23.

Its been about 3 weeks since I started working out and eating healthier. And I’m proud to say I’ve lost 9lbs so far :D.

3lbs a week! WOOP WOOP!

Dropped my body fat by over 1%.

I bought a body fat scanner so I can do scans at home too rather than just at the gym every 2 weeks.

from 227 ( Had to adjust because of the increase from xmas -__ -) to 169 is 58 lbs

I now have 49lbs more to go. LEGGO!

15.5% There! 84.5% to go!

Twenty One Four, Time to be More!

This year…I’ll be twenty-four.

o___o

To put this in perspective. I think I always wanted to be married at 27-28. So like 24 is like not that far from 27-28. o___o oh gosh. I don’t want to even think about it but as I’m growing I think i just need to accept this and take things one step at a time. 

But yeah 2014 is a year where I want it to be about me! Sounds selfish but hear me out.

I’ve always thrown myself on the back burner to do other things like help the ministry, others, even the company I worked for. 

I’m the kind of dude that if you asked me to hit the gym everyday for myself I would be like naw… but if someone is like, “Hey Eric, I want to go to the gym everyday can you go with me?” I’d be like, “YES! Lets struggle together!”

And honestly I don’t think there’s anything wrong with that but like I need to be able to do things for myself. So this year I set some goals and some boundaries.

Check it!

– Start learning how to code.

– Learn Spanish

– Bring my parents company to a new level.

– Be single until you are back to your before college weight.

– Share with my parents at least once.

– Find a Church

– Make more friends at home and get a community.

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Those are just some goals I have at the top of my head. But here’s a progress report.

– Start learning how to code.

  – Enrolled at the community college towards an Associates in Computer Science

– Learn Spanish

  – No progress hahah

– Bring my parents company to a new level.

  – Created a website for their company and a billing system.

– Be single until you are back to your before college weight.

  – Got a personal trainer, working out (4-5x a week), watching everything that I eat.

– Share with my parents at least once.

  – GOTTA GET ON THIS!

– Find a Church

  – DITTO ON THE GOTTA GET ON THIS

– Make more friends at home and get a community.

  – UGH where do I even begin this? Did meet some cool people at a bar though. Dono if that counts.

I’ll keep everyone updated on the progress as I go! 😀

Zaijian!

Ok Ok, I’m Back :]

Many of you may of gone to my blog to see what I wrote and you probably came to the same old post every time. Well the obvious thing is that I didn’t write! Here’s why,

I wanted to be discipline in it but the truth why I haven’t written isn’t because I was too lazy. It’s because of 2 reasons:

1. I wanted to write something real, and what I wanted to write about wasn’t something I wanted to share with the world.

2. If i had force myself to write for the sake of writing, it would of been fake. Just mumbo jumbo I pulled out of my ass. 

So I didn’t want to write. 

But I’m ready to write and share. :] 

Sorry if I had disappointed anyone!

 

Told myself I would make a blog.

What did I get myself into? I suck at disciplining myself to keep up with something consistently but as I am in this strange time in my life, I realized God is speaking to me and I don’t want to forget lesson’s I’ve learned.

Recently this year, I realized I have forgotten so many things that it blows my mind. Whether its from inside jokes that I use to have with friends to huge events such as praying with someone to accept Christ, I get so busy looking at what’s in front of me that I often forget what God has done.

So here are my reasons for trying to blog.

1. It requires discipline.

I am trying to keep up with something and to be disciplined in setting time out of my day to reflect.

2. Its reflective.

We so often get caught up with our lives that we don’t get to just sit back and look at the big picture.

3. I can go back and see what I learned.

I mentioned that I forget a lot of things and if you know me, you know that this is very true! ( Sorry for all the tardiness to meetups!)

Hopefully I can stick to this!

Things you can expect on this blog is cool things i’ve learned, prayers, and just my thoughts.

LEGGO

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