For me, Hell Week is all about my career. I feel like I’ve got the social sphere under control. Actually, I wish I could be as in charge of my career as I am of my family. But for whatever reason, being the authority figure I am as a dad doesn’t translate to work. It’s not that I’m this totalitarian at home and a wet noodle in the office, but I definitely have a stronger sense of self in the home sphere. This is one of the main reasons I believe I’d be an effective leader. But I need to convince the higher-ups of that. I know it’s not going to happen in a single week, but I’m looking forward to showing in that time the type of leader I can be. We’ll see how it goes.
My primary goal is to lose the weight, obviously. But I think I need to fixate less on this one objective. I get what Erik is saying, that goals need to be specific and you need to give yourself a specific time frame. So I have those specific goals in the back of my mind. There’s more to this than getting back down below 200 pounds, though. I want to go back to the guy I was before I packed on the extra pounds. If I’m going to dare to dream, that’s really what I’m trying to achieve. I know you can’t turn back time, but I’d like to return to that earlier mind-set.