It's the start of a journey, and I'm feeling excited. Can't wait for it to start so which is why I'm going to give it my all at every thing I do. None of that half way stuff, but going the whole way. Balancing my time is going to be the hard part. Can't be in two place's at once so I'm going to have to change a few more things in my daily life. Me , seriously I have no idea of what I've gotten my self into, but that's OK. It's like a quote I thought of, seeing is believing, but some of the greatest things in life are the things we can't see. This new thing is going to change and help my life in all the different ways. First of all, it's going to help me train for the upcoming belt tests. It's going put me in the best physical and mental shape of my life. Plus it's going to make a change, so I'm excited. But none of that is going to happen unless I push myself towards the end. I don't mean the end of this challenge, but until I'm six feet under. So this is something I'm going to keep with me for the rest of my life.It's OK if I work until my muscles are swore, and I can't move. It'll just tell me that the next day is going to be interesting. (How are you supposed to go through school when your to swore to even move a finger.) But it's OK because that's just what I want. My life goal, to have a story so that when I have grand children I can look back and tell them what I did. Basic meaning to my goal, just live life and make all my own choices. Have nobody decide for me and not be let told I can't do something I want to do with all my heart.
So for the people who tell me I can't this is what I say, " you just watch me do it" and that will be my punch in the face for you. I know that I'll be handing out a whole lot of those,(the world is full of people like that) but it's OK, just need to keep my cool. I just have to keep myself going forward never backwards. I just need to keep going no matter how many times I fall or stay at some point. As long as I advance forward I can take all the time I need. I'm just going to keep at it. Finishing this challenge will just be one success, but theirs still going to be more in life. I got a whole bunch of challenges right now. [ Basket Ball, Martial arts, school, car, project cars, work, home, friends, girlfriend, pets, family, health, time, and etc.] I don't want to loose any of these things. But I know people would say I can't keep all of them. But what if I say I can and I will, that I won't take every body's advice( some people have good advice) and I'll just follow my own. I'm going to do all of theses things, might take me a while but I'm going to do them. I'm Juan and I'm going to live like a champion.
Sunday, December 13, 2009
Saturday, November 28, 2009
A Day At Work
Today I woke up at 8:30 in the morning. I got my book, I had a glass of milk with my cookies, The keys to truck and my dad. Its been a while since I've driven on the road so it felt like meeting an old friend I haven't seen in a long time. Excited to be with Him/Her, but at the same time nervous and scared. Nervous because you don't know how everything is going to go. Scared because you don't know if your going to be able to recognize your old friend. I know I did as I was driving to Santa Clara, the turns I use to be able to take with such ease looked as if I was going through them at a faster pace then before, and the only thought I had in my head was "Can I Keep Up With My Old Friend?". I did and that started my day, some way of starting a good Saturday huh.
So I get down the truck I the first thing I do, fix the trucks left tail light, the light bulb was broken so you couldn't see my left signal light. After trying to figure out how to take the head light off a client/friend comes by and lends me a hand. He shows me there are clips that hold the head light, I say thank you and I go get the bulb and replace it. Next I go help Help a another one of my dads employees "Becho" put together a transmission to its engine. Once that was done he put it together and laid it inside the Nissan Altima. Put things together just how they were before and started to check if everything was in place using special tools for the job. My dad and I were installing the original muffler for a Honda civic.
That turned out good, I moved on to the next search for a radiator for (dads/mine) our 68 Camaro. Were 20% done but we gut a long way to go and that's OK. A lot of people are looking forward to see it wake up from its deep slumber. I had no luck not meaning I didn't find any but they were just to expensive to buy. My dad left to go check out a 65 mustang a man was selling him(man knew my dad wouldn't turn down pretty good offer). What he didn't know my dad knows just how much things could be worth after being examined. Man was selling the car for 4 grand, seems like a pretty good buy, but the car had the front right smashed in. Nothing to serious or out of our level of fixing. My dad offered 2,500, the man called my dad crazy and left. I just smiled, theres no way my dad can be hustled when it comes down to cars.
He always has a plan to make things work for him, which is a bad ass thing about him. I start walking around counting my steps, I count 63 steps walking car to car asking whats wrong with them or whats left to be done on them (before I'm needed again). My dad tells me "we have to get things cleaned up" so that's what we do. We start to organize the CATS/ catilick converters into different category's. We stop and its time for lunch, so I head out to Pollo loco and I get 2 orders of nachos. A chicken salad for my dad, lunch is over we get back to moving things around. I thought of it as weight lifting, each CAT weighing at least 10. The thing to this to was that it involved a lot of team work, my dad threw the CAT at me, I caught them and placed them were they belong. Once we were done it was time to go home, I brought in the cars and we left.
Again I faced against the same feelings for the road, but I got home. I took a shower got changed into shorts and a shirt. I had fish for dinner and after I typed this, now that I think about it, its easier to read about my day then to have gone through it. But its OK I prefer it like that any ways. Meaning I wouldn't want to miss A Day At Work.
So I get down the truck I the first thing I do, fix the trucks left tail light, the light bulb was broken so you couldn't see my left signal light. After trying to figure out how to take the head light off a client/friend comes by and lends me a hand. He shows me there are clips that hold the head light, I say thank you and I go get the bulb and replace it. Next I go help Help a another one of my dads employees "Becho" put together a transmission to its engine. Once that was done he put it together and laid it inside the Nissan Altima. Put things together just how they were before and started to check if everything was in place using special tools for the job. My dad and I were installing the original muffler for a Honda civic.
That turned out good, I moved on to the next search for a radiator for (dads/mine) our 68 Camaro. Were 20% done but we gut a long way to go and that's OK. A lot of people are looking forward to see it wake up from its deep slumber. I had no luck not meaning I didn't find any but they were just to expensive to buy. My dad left to go check out a 65 mustang a man was selling him(man knew my dad wouldn't turn down pretty good offer). What he didn't know my dad knows just how much things could be worth after being examined. Man was selling the car for 4 grand, seems like a pretty good buy, but the car had the front right smashed in. Nothing to serious or out of our level of fixing. My dad offered 2,500, the man called my dad crazy and left. I just smiled, theres no way my dad can be hustled when it comes down to cars.
He always has a plan to make things work for him, which is a bad ass thing about him. I start walking around counting my steps, I count 63 steps walking car to car asking whats wrong with them or whats left to be done on them (before I'm needed again). My dad tells me "we have to get things cleaned up" so that's what we do. We start to organize the CATS/ catilick converters into different category's. We stop and its time for lunch, so I head out to Pollo loco and I get 2 orders of nachos. A chicken salad for my dad, lunch is over we get back to moving things around. I thought of it as weight lifting, each CAT weighing at least 10. The thing to this to was that it involved a lot of team work, my dad threw the CAT at me, I caught them and placed them were they belong. Once we were done it was time to go home, I brought in the cars and we left.
Again I faced against the same feelings for the road, but I got home. I took a shower got changed into shorts and a shirt. I had fish for dinner and after I typed this, now that I think about it, its easier to read about my day then to have gone through it. But its OK I prefer it like that any ways. Meaning I wouldn't want to miss A Day At Work.
Friday, November 27, 2009
Ready set go!
Hi my name is Juan, I'm 15 and I'm into a whole lot of things. I spend my time with friends or doing some sort of work. I have a younger sister and brother, who spend most of the time killing each other. I'm in sophomore year at LPS high school and I've enjoyed my time there. I made most of my friends there. I'm in the basket ball team and I'm a red belt in martial arts. My master and English honors 2 teacher is Mr. G. He's one of my favorites because of the way he's able to male the class feel. It's like I'm in college, Right now I'm aiming to get my black belt and these are my requirements.....
1.(mind) 5-7 pg. research paper on a topic related to my training/ Martial arts
2.(physical) 150 hours of training in and out of class/ 150 bottles of water consumed/ 300 miles worth running, cycling, swimming, ect./300 minutes of sparring and bag work/ 1000 minutes spent doing diff. kinds of split/ 1000 repetitions of traditional forms/ 10,000 kicks/ 10,000 squats, push-ups, crouches, etc.
3.(spirit) a recording of my challenges and success.
This all has to be done for me to get my black belt. So far I only have 600 push-ups and 600 crouches. All done on my on time, when ever I had the time. My basket ball practices have had me run at least something of 10 miles as far as I can remember. This all sounds hard because it is, having to balance social, basket ball, school, work, family, girlfriend, friends, martial arts. Man, I haven't been able to go to any of my martial arts classes because of other things needing me. But its not a reason for me to just give up, this whole thing will need me to make changes in my daily life and as hard as it is I'm not going to give up. It might take me a while to succeed but I'm going to. All I can say to my self is get ready for the hard times ahead, get set to be face to face to every thing I thought as impossible, and go. Go for it because in the end I'll be on top with my friends and family already there waiting for me, waiting to say "good job"
1.(mind) 5-7 pg. research paper on a topic related to my training/ Martial arts
2.(physical) 150 hours of training in and out of class/ 150 bottles of water consumed/ 300 miles worth running, cycling, swimming, ect./300 minutes of sparring and bag work/ 1000 minutes spent doing diff. kinds of split/ 1000 repetitions of traditional forms/ 10,000 kicks/ 10,000 squats, push-ups, crouches, etc.
3.(spirit) a recording of my challenges and success.
This all has to be done for me to get my black belt. So far I only have 600 push-ups and 600 crouches. All done on my on time, when ever I had the time. My basket ball practices have had me run at least something of 10 miles as far as I can remember. This all sounds hard because it is, having to balance social, basket ball, school, work, family, girlfriend, friends, martial arts. Man, I haven't been able to go to any of my martial arts classes because of other things needing me. But its not a reason for me to just give up, this whole thing will need me to make changes in my daily life and as hard as it is I'm not going to give up. It might take me a while to succeed but I'm going to. All I can say to my self is get ready for the hard times ahead, get set to be face to face to every thing I thought as impossible, and go. Go for it because in the end I'll be on top with my friends and family already there waiting for me, waiting to say "good job"
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