I’m not going to lie, 2015 was not my best year.

For that matter since 2012 my journey has been one backslide after another.

March 2012 I weighed 215 pounds as I crossed the finish line of my first marathon.

I was at the pinnacle of my personal journey. I had lost 145 pounds. Went from couch potato to marathoner.

Over the last three years I have allowed so many old habits to return. I’ve gained weight back, nearly all of it.

Don’t get me wrong, I have had some success professionally, but my health is at a breaking point. Not just physically, but mentally.

I don’t know what 2016 will hold. But I can tell you one thing, I’m ready to fight again.

It’s time for me to get back on track and start demolishing my goals again.

All I can control is one day at a time and that’s how I plan to win.

This May I will turn 34. Also this year marks 7 years since I started my journey. Here are my goals for 2016:

• Lose 100 pounds.
• Work on eliminating debt.
• Become Center Manager.
• Finish the Peachtree Road Race (10K) in under 90 mins.
• Read 25 books this year.
• Read the entire bible in a year.

The only way I won before on this journey was setting goals to pursue. Well there’s my five.

My friend is Brogan challenges everyone to come up with three words to help guide their goals for the new year.

Here’s mine:

Integrity, Discipline and Servant.

Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? So run that you may obtain it. Every athlete exercises self-control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable. So I do not run aimlessly; I do not box as one beating the air. But I discipline my body and keep it under control, lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified. 1 Corinthians 9:24–27