I decided to start a new weekly series on MistakeMaker.com called “Confessions”. Every week I’ll be confessing the junk in my trunk… mostly for me, but hopefully you’ll find some encouragement in it as well.

So I thought I would kick off this series with my first confession. I’m a middle-aged out of shape fat guy. There I said it. Whew…I feel better already.

So here’s the deal. God has been kickin’ my butt in the area of discipline. Particularly with the idea that our physical life is interconnected with our spiritual life. I blogged about this here a few days ago. I feel like God is telling me that one way I can grow spiritually is by shaping up physically. I am 38 years old. This is half time. Time to regroup, refocus, and reprioritize for the 2nd half. The 2nd half is when most of the action happens. I want to be ready. I want to be able to run the race hard and I want to finish well.

I’m about 25 lbs. overweight and I’m completely out of shape. I imagine that my blood pressure is on the high side. And I’m sure that my Cholesterol is high. At least it was the last time that I had it checked which was about 2 years ago. Since I’m confessing, I blew off the follow up appointment, the-one-where-I-was-supposed-to-come-back-after-eating-healthier-to-get-rechecked appointment.

I said all of that to say that on Monday, training for the 2nd half begins. My wife and I will begin the P90X training program. Man, I’m excited and pumped up to get started. It’s gonna be tough. But, I’m determined to finish the program. I’ll journal my progress each week on the blog. Please keep me motivated by letting me know that you’re following my progress. We do what’s inspected, not what’s expected. Inspect away…please.

Confession done.