Change is good

I'm experiencing a change which I haven't had for a decade a guy gets comfortable in his situation with me being a Cancer we like to be comfortable. My Aqua friend would harp on me about not changing things she would say you turn stagnant its not good for your life and career.

In reality I wasn't happy I let myself go dealing with stress I used food to deal with stress, that eventually caught up to me I started to have issues with my knees and back. I started to become really unhealthy it was the stress riding on my month in and out the stress never let up. I tried buying myself happiness with some toys to take my mind off of work that just got me deep in the hole.

First mission to cut stress out of my life I adopted the shove it up your ass management I'm not doing it. I started dropping the responsibilities I took on at work gave them back to my superiors here you make the decisions not me. That relieved some of the stress but it was still there it would grind on me everyday. Everyday I was mentally tired I would come home and just crash.

Second mission get my health back I had to give up the bad habits I guess you could call it stress eating. Cleaned up my diet which took a lot of will power, cut out the unhealthy foods. I needed to get exercise being mentally tired it was tough I forced myself to get exercise. I've always been healthy but since I ended up in a job that mentally wore me out getting physical exercise went out the window. The bigger I got the harder it was to get exercise I was losing control of my weight gain the stress eating was taking over my life. I got the tables turned and kicked the stress eating out of my life.

Third mission the mounting debt I had, I knew I had to stay with the job I had to get my debt paid down so that would be a year to two years. I watched what I spent I dropped the luxuries out of my life I had no life I didn't do anything that would cost me money. I need to get that debt paid off having fun takes a back seat.

For me to leave the job I had and return to my previous career I would have to get physically fit nobody would want to hire me if I can't physically do the work. That put stress on me because I knew I was trapped in the job that already that dumped stress on me but I pulled through. I focused on getting physically fit.

I got all my ducks all lined up in a row, becoming healthier, pushing stress out of my life, getting a more positive outlook on life I was focused on change time to blow this popsicle stand. It took almost 2 years to get this plan completed.

I learned some valuable lessons the first one is be very aware of stress it can very damaging I delt with a stressful job for 10 years. Second is never let your health decline its really easy to pack on extra pounds it snow balls it's a slippery slope. It is easier to maintain a healthy weight than it is to try loose weight. Don't go out and buy bigger clothes it just causes you to gain more weight.

I've just fought the toughest battle I've ever fought I've won the battle, I have my health back, I'm away from a stressful job. I have a new outlook on life, life is worth living again.

I learned a lot from what I just experienced for the last 10 years I won't be repeating it. I'm going to brace change not be scared of it. Today I'm healthy again ready to return to where I should have never left in the first place 10 years ago. A bad choice I made 10 years ago really tree trunked me I regret that decision I made. I was chasing bigger money and what I thought would be an easier life. Nothing ever comes easy if I stayed where I was 10 years ago I would have been further ahead and hell of a lot happier.