Another year in my life has passed and as usual for an adult I have been taking a mental inventory of the year, sometimes the simplest things make you the happiest though. I did many things this year that made me proud of myself, making the local news (for a good reason of course ), gaining a good reputation as a personal trainer and having people ask for me by name and of course my biggest accomplishment yet, creating a new life who I'll get to meet during THIS year. One thing that made my confidence soar was very, very small.

I have been informed (rather grumpily) by 2 of my Kickboxers that since reading my blog on milk they have decided to try to do without cheese for a month. I find it rather thrilling that people are taking what I say into serious consideration. However when I started chatting about the vices and virtues of dried fruit (aka glorified candy) they drew the line.

It makes me happy to know that I have the means to make change in the world, even if just a little bit. I have often had fantasies about creating giant life changing rallys, or huge protest groups for things like banning BHT's from children's foods and removing unnatural preservatives from everything.

This has given me a little pat on the back however and it makes me wonder what I can accomplish in the future? Or what some of the incredible people around me might do. Little ripples can turn into gigantic waves when the conditions are right.

Now I'm getting excited for THIS year!

-Shidoin