I’ve been blogging at End of Three Fitness for a little over a year and a half, but never in that time have I really been open with you guys. For the longest time I tried to keep such a professional tone and style, always walking the line so as not to offend anyone. In the process, you haven’t fully gotten to know me.
I don’t think that’s fair.
Every new Eo3 email subscriber gets asked the same question… “What are you struggling with right now?â€
The responses I get and the stories shared are always awesome, and I really appreciate it. I feel like I get to know a lot of you, but you haven’t gotten to know me.
Well here it goes, 19 things I’ve never told you:
1.) I own a 5 lb. Chihuahua – Yep, you heard it right. My wife, well girlfriend at the time, bought a tiny little puppy while we were in college. I was completely against the idea and didn’t want her at all…but now I love the little fur ball.
2.) My wife is extremely talented – Emily is the most talented person I know. She has an eye for design, photography, and it takes her like 5 seconds to get good at something.
3.) I NEVER read fiction – I have some weird desire to constantly be productive, thus, reading fiction makes me feel unproductive and like I am wasting my time. However, I do like reading. I don’t have as much time for it as I would like, but I do enjoy reading some good ole factual information.
4.) I was born in Germany – I was an Army brat. My Dad was a helicopter pilot in the Army and was stationed in Germany in the 80’s and that’s when I was born.
5.) I can juggle and say the alphabet backwards…at the same time – Pretty useless skills, but they are fun to say you can do occasionally. Well, not completely useless, William laughs at me now when I juggle his toys. I learned to say my alphabet backwards back in the day just in case a cop ever gave me a sobriety test…The only thing is that I rarely ever drink and I NEVER drink and drive. So the alphabet thing has been very useless.
6.) My favorite color is red – Despite the “Eo3 Orange†and the fact that I wear a lot of black, my real favorite color is red. I think it’s because my wife looks great in red.
7.) I have three friends I’d trust with my life – Having a lot of friends is great, but you’ll ever only have a few friends in your life who you could honestly trust with anything. I only have three friends who have made it to that status and I’d do anything for them in a moments notice.
8.) When William (my son) smiles I forget the world – I’m a thinker. I’m always on the move, always trying to be better and always thinking. William is the only thing that can truly slow me down for a moment and make me forget everything.
9.) My family calls me Bam Bam – You know, Bam Bam from the Flintstones? Yea well, I have very little patience and this is especially true for inanimate objects such as boxes and wrappers. So, if these objects are not cooperative, I force them to be.
10.) I don’t consider myself a writer – I think I have written well over 250,000 words at End of Three Fitness and that doesn’t include the free eBooks I’ve written or One Man One Barbell. Despite all that, I don’t consider myself a writer. I have a passion for what I do and this is how it comes out.
11.) I have a milk and peanut butter obsession – Milk and peanut butter, not together necessarily, just two of my biggest weaknesses. I cycle on and off of them and it is a internal battle, but I just love milk and peanut butter too much.
12.) My favorite movies are Fight Club and Good Will Hunting – I like movies that are different and intriguing. I generally like movies that force me to think.
13.) I can’t stand quiet – I am actually writing this right now with Pandora going on my laptop, I sleep with a noise maker on and I like music on while I’m at work. I don’t know why. It was a study habit I picked up in college and now I just don’t like silence.
14.) I am normally in bed before 10 p.m. – I wake up very early everyday and sleep is extremely important, so I do what I have to.
15.) Despite never training for it…I have mad hops – I was born with speed and the ability to jump. I am 5’ 11†tall and I can come pretty close to dunking, but my standing broad jump is probably my most impressive.
16.) My wife and I are doing everything we can to live debt free – In the last two years we have paid off $57,000 worth of debt (primarily student loans) and it isn’t our income that is doing that for us. We live extremely budgeted lives and do everything we can to put every penny towards debt each month. I personally believe when you are in debt to no one you are truly free to live life how you please.
17.) I’m a pretty quiet dude – I don’t like to think of myself as quiet, but most would consider me that way. Most who know me know that I am really just busy thinking, but you can keep talking to me…I can handle both.
18.) I don’t recognize, or care about, celebrities – If you held up the top 5 celebrity magazines in the nation I probably would go 0 for 5 for each person on the cover. I am not impressed by celebrities and I have just as much interest in them as they have in me.
19.) I think End of Three Fitness is still in it’s infancy – This little thing I do on the side called End of Three Fitness, I think we are just getting warmed up. I think the website will grow and the community will get bigger and bigger. I’m passionate about what I do here and the people I help. It’s no secret that I plan to make End of Three Fitness my full-time job in the future. It is only a matter of time before that happens. Never treating Eo3 as a business, but rather just throwing ever bit of me into it as I can has made it a lot of fun and always easy.
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Thanks for reading,
Jerred