The Juice Box

Lately, I have been so focused on spreading positivity and motivation and I have failed to mention the aspect of life that isn't as fun.  Life isn't all about sunshine and rainbows, and I think that it is 100% important to discuss the days that just don't go as according to plan.  Yesterday, I had a day that just kept beating me up.  I heard some bad news in the morning from the second I woke up, and then, repeatedly throughout the rest of the day, I felt like I kept on getting punched and kicked by life.  At one point I just wanted to go home and go to sleep and get rid of the terrible day I was facing.  I wanted to start fresh with a new day, and put the bad day behind me. Bad days can worsen your mood.  You could go from being in such a go-lucky mood to being in a 'down' mood in a matter of minutes.  Then, when one event turns your mood upside down, every minor inconvenience throughout the day discourages you more and more.   For example, yeste...

The act of taking care of our bodies is something that has been mentioned in the Bible many times.  It is something very important, and something that we need to do a lot of in our daily life. It has been said multiple times that our bodies are a temple.  Therefore, we need to take the time to exercise and build muscle so that our bodies are strong and equipped. I am a college swimmer so I am constantly working out.  During the school year, whether it be lifting, racing in the pool, or running, I am always working to get my body built into shape for competition.   This past semester, the swim team wasn't much of a thing due to COVID, so I was forced to take working out into my own hands since the team didn't have practice.  So, my lifting buddy and I decided to go and lift weights every single day.  Monday through Friday, we would meet at the gym in the late afternoon to get a "quick grind" in before dinner.  We rotated through leg day, arms day, core ...

 Merry Christmas! Two weeks later I am back.  I have been slacking with my blogging because I have been a stir-crazy mess due to the Holidays.  Even though it has been a great week and a half with all the Christmas preparations, gift wrapping, giving, and cooking, I am glad to be able to settle down.  I'm happy that things can get back to normal. Throughout the past couple weeks, I have had many "coming to God moments" and realizations.  I actually have decided to start writing a children's book and gotten closer to a lot of my friends and family.  This children's book was my idea, literally at 2AM about a week before Christmas.  I had such a calling to write this book (I would give more details but I don't want to spoil it!).  Now I just have to save up my money to publish the book, due to the fact that I am a broke college student.  Also, I had an interview for an internship at a sales firm in Downtown Annapolis.  I find out tomorrow i...

It has almost been a week since my last post!  I convinced myself that I was going to post every single day since I made the blog, but then life hit, and here I am a week since I wrote last.  But I have so much to catch up on! Within the last week, I have been back and forth to Pittsburgh, DC, Annapolis, Long Island, and New York City.  I pretty much never want to have to see a truck again in my life (driving alongside cars is fine with me- but it is the trucks that drive aggressively that I can't stand.). And, in the past week of driving around the East Coast of the United States, I did it all with my travel sidekick (a.k.a. my girlfriend) and we shared many laughs, stories, and rants through it all.  One morning, my Aunt was driving my girlfriend and I in the car to the nearby Long Island Railroad train station to go to NYC. My aunt looks at me, at my girlfriend, and then at me again and says "Tyler, you really did find your partner, didn't you? She has a wanderlus...

Words cannot describe how much of my time in the past 8 months I have spent in the silence of my own thoughts.  Before anybody reads that and thinks I am crazy, I think it was a good thing. It was a time to reflect on my life: where I am, where I want to be, and what I have to do to be at the place I want to be.   Last year around January/February time period, I was an overworked mess.  I was trying to balance swimming (which feels like a full time job) with grades and trying to be social and having a girlfriend.  It was hard for me to balance everything, and I wasn't being a good boyfriend or a good friend to my roommate/best friend.  I showed them no time of day, and whenever I was with them, I was not too nice to them because I let the pressures of being overworked take over my life.  I put almost no work into those relationships that I had and focused more on swimming and my classes/schoolwork.  All I wanted was alone time.  I wanted space fro...

After a few day break, I am back.  The past few days I have been busy with traveling and an internship program with my college that I have been investing my time in. My internship class for the past few days has been from 8AM-5PM, and when I wasn't in the internship program, I have been trying to squeeze my extra free time into driving to the Pittsburgh area to see my girlfriend. And the thought of looking at a screen more to blog was not too attractive- considering that during my internship training program I am staring at a screen all day long. (I need to invest in some of those blue-light glasses people have- considering I want to pursue a life of writing- and that writing now is all computer work.) Life has been very fast paced the past few days, but a good type of fast paced.  A fast paced schedule/time that you can not focus on the bad things in life and instead focus your brain on the task that you are on in the present.  My happiest time is when I have my hands fu...

With the holidays, comes so much hustle and bustle .  Here and there.  Who to buy for, how much money I can spend, when I am going to give the presents, and looking into my bank account to see how much cash I went through during my shopping excursion- these are all the common thoughts I have during this season.  I am leaving home tomorrow to go back to Latrobe for an internship class, so I needed to get some of my Christmas shopping done today (especially for my girlfriend, since we are exchanging gifts tomorrow).  I put so much thought into presents.  What would be perfect.  What would make her smile the most.  What has a lot of special meaning and value but won't cost hundreds of dollars.  Even though she is the most down to Earth and happy person, I still want to make her face smile when she opens one of my gifts.  SO WITH THAT- comes a lot of pressure.  So much pressure . All the time .  Even though it might be "fun" pressure...

 I logged onto the blog today and I saw that almost FIVE HUNDRED PEOPLE have visited this page.  My jaw almost dropped .  A couple days ago when I started this whole thing, I had about six people (and those were just friends and family). I'm noticing now that I might be speaking to a larger audience than I would have ever thought.  And with that comes a lot of pressure in my mind.  I want to say the right things, motivate as many people possible, and change as many lives as I can through my writing. So where does that leave me now?  Where do I go from here? Just like so many other Americans, I want things done NOW .  I want things done in the snap of my fingers.  I hate waiting on lines, waiting for a package to come, or waiting for a professor to grade a test that I studied extensively for.  I hate waiting because I want things done on my time and my time only.  Like most Americans, we want to be IN CONTROL .    We have bee...

 Good afternoon! Welcome to the official day two of the blog!  For the five people that might be reading this right now, I am so glad you are here.  Sometimes, the idea of this blog is intimidating- that all my followers on my social media know I have this now.  But, nobody ever accomplished anything by staying in their own comfort zones, right?   This is a huge jump out of my comfort zone.   But, here we are, and I am not a quitter.  I will stick things through to the end.  So many trials and tasks in my life convinced me to quit and to "give up" on what I was trying to accomplish.  For example, during quarantine, I wanted to have a project.  I decided that the project I wanted to work on was to be fluent in Spanish.  Spanish isn't too easy either.  So many times mid-way through studying (I would study for like 3-4 hours a day during quarantine), I would think " this is too difficult " or "I'm not in a house of Spanish speake...

  What is my inspiration? At the end of the day, I want to help people.  I want everybody to use their gifts that God has given them to benefit the world in their own unique way.  I am a firm believer that everybody has their own special gifts that are UNIQUE TO THEM .  I have a love for learning new languages, spreading happiness/joy, and motivating people.  Life can be so hard.  Getting out of bed doing something you do not like doing is draining. Going to work in a corporate office working under somebody else can really suck the life out of you.  It is important to BE your own person.   I am just a (newly) 21 year old college student who really doesn't know much about life just yet.  I have had a very good life up to this point and I think that I am meant to share positivity and love with a world that could be so dark.  SO MANY people are just out for themselves, their own monetary growth, and they don't care who they knock down on t...

  Let's Begin- I think that it is important to share opinions, right? It is important to let others know how you're feeling, what team you are rooting for, and to share ideas on what you are passionate about. That's what makes the world go around, right? But, here I am with my first real post.  Instead of planning too much for this blog, I kind of want to "play it by ear", meaning, see where it goes and how it goes.  I want to be me, and I want others to be their true and centered inner beings as well.  Why try to mask who you are all the time?  I believe that it is more than healthy to have a safe place to share your opinions, life goals, and beliefs without any form of judgement.   This is that place.  I love a good debate.  I love seeing people who are driven by their passions put their full self on the line to defend what they love.  I believe that it is one of the greatest things that make us human.  I think a civil and friendly deb...