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04/07/2016 – The First Laugh is the Deepest

This morning I woke up simply not having it.  Stomach was achy, head and sinus’s felt pressure, completely unmotivated, just did not want to leave the comfort of bed.  I forced myself to complete the walk up the hill, practically dragging my feet the entire time.  At the top of the hill, I quietly meditated and reflected for 10 minutes, that normally does the trick.  Not today, the mind was…

03/31/2016 – Finish that Final 10%

How often do I begin a project, get about 80-90% done with it, and then drag my feet for the final 5-10% of it.  The answer is more than I want to admit.  Well, that type of thing, admittedly, was beginning to happen again on the #FSHDninja t-shirts.  I was dragging my feet on placing another order for the remaining 26 orders that still had to be filled.  The only reason I was dragging my feet…

03/30/2016 – Awaken

First off… Happy Birthday Carden!  23 – it’s a good age to be.  Keep pushing forward, inspiring others, building yourself up, taking big actions, and standing up for what you believe in.

Yesterday I watched a movie, Awake, which is based off a really inspiring book which I read just over a year ago: The Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda.  It’s always fun to see how the movie will…

Getting Organized

5 min today.

My head is swirling right now.  Things to do.  Tasks to accomplish.  Goals to achieve.  It’s moments like these where I feel there is so much going on that I’m almost paralyzed to start doing something.  It’s moments like these where I’m truly disorganized.  Organization has never been a strong suit or a skill set that comes naturally to me like it may for others.  I have other…

03/26/16 – Telling Your Story

Yesterday turned out to be an incredible day.  Carden and I met and spent the day filming with a group of 3 guys contracted by American Ninja Warrior to do special, hometown feature stories.  Throughout the day, Carden and I were interviewed, mic’d, filmed, and socialized with this team to share her FSHD story and how I came to be interested in competing on American Ninja Warrior.  After a day’s…

Today's New Experience

Today is going to be an interesting, fun, and potentially life-changing experience.  Today, Carden and I will be working with an American Ninja Warrior and Spartan Race feature team to build her story for the upcoming show.  I don’t know if this will actually air or not, there are no guarantees here, but sending a special team to Atlanta to spend the day with us is a pretty good clue that our…

Fight Laziness

Yesterday I began my Freedom Journal quest for the next 100 days.  I have a very large goal I want to accomplish and am testing how this journal keeps me aligned and focused on that goal.  You see everyday I have to overcome the obstacle of myself.  That’s right.  I am my biggest obstacle.  My laziness in particular.  It’s so easy to feed my laziness because it’s always hungry.  I feed my…

Feeling humbled today.  Feeling tuned in to a larger purpose today.  There have been several messages coming across my fb account the last couple days, and yesterday I received one particularly inspiring.  Someone with FSHD wrote to me to tell me how inspiring my blog is to them and to share how they’re training to compete in a half-marathon and are up to 10 miles in their training.  They think…

5 min today.

Wow, what an incredible weekend.  This past Friday, at around 2am I competed on American Ninja Warrior and I tackled the course to kick off Season 8.  It was an unbelievable experience.  There were upwards of 40-50 friends, family, and supporters who showed and stayed 4-5 hours just to watch me go.  It’s impossible to thank each of those people enough, what an amazing group of…

Happy St. Patty's Day!

Happy St. Patty’s Day!  Today is shaping up to be an excellent day already.  There are several items on today’s plan to look forward to.  First, at 1:30pm today Carden and I will be traveling into the city to meet with the American Ninja Warrior producers to do some interviews with them.  I’m not completely sure of what to expect, but I imagine they’ll want to interview us regarding Carden’s…

5 min today.

Action, action, action.  Keep taking action.  That is the motto this week and that was certainly the motto last night.  Yesterday, after working a full day at the office, paid a visit to CrossFit North Atlanta to do some training.  I haven’t been back there in nearly 2 months, it was nice to return and catch up with a few folks over there who have been supportive throughout the years…

10 min today.

Well yesterday I took a day off from the morning routine, a day of rest.  Yesterday the body was hurting all over from the previous day’s Spartan Race, which turned out to be a huge success for everyone on the Piggy Backs For A Cure Team.  A huge success because we all finished, all 4 of us.  A huge success because we each carried Carden (Virginia, Dani, and myself included), and we…

TODAY we are Spartans

10 minutes today.

TODAY is the day we’ve been waiting for since last year’s Spartan Race.  TODAY is the day Carden, Virginia, Dani Rae, and I take a stand against FSHD and show that anything is possible when you have a great team.  TODAY is the day we overcome every single obstacle and commit to both starting and finishing the race.  TODAY is the day we prove to ourselves and to others that…

5 min today.

Last night began to create a template for an American Ninja Warrior shirt. Dani, using her expertise in this field, helped make a really incredible looking shirt that is not too flashy, simple, and within all of our legal rights.  I think people would wear it, it represents our hometown Atlanta, and it even has a little ninja want on it flying around.  Today is the day we need to…

Answering Your Questions About the ANW Shoot in Atlanta

This post serves to provide Everything You Need To Know about the upcoming 2016 American Ninja Warrior Qualifying Round in Atlanta and how to support our team: Ninjas For A Cure.

WHAT IS YOUR (new) GOAL?

Apply, inspire the producers with Carden’s FSHD struggle, receive a call back, and get casted on the show.  Check

Be in the Top 30that moves onto Day 2, the Regional Semifinals, and then be in the