new beginnings...

I've blogged in the past, but been sidelined the past few months for various reasons. I'm back though and a little more anonymous. I'm hoping that this blog will be a way to help document some changes that I want to make and just my life in general. I'm a past Ironman. Ironman emeritus? I don't know, but I think that at some point you lose the right to call yourself an Ironman and it's been four years since my last attempt at the distance. I hope to get back there.

As I've fallen away from where I was when I finished Ironman Wisconsin, I've watched my weight go up, the business in my life increase and just over the last few days, an element of depression enter back into my life. I need to change. I want to change, I'm just not completely sure how to go about it. How I go about finding my motivation... to get beyond "Common Man Syndrome" as my friend Commodore would say. I think I can do it, and I know that I have done it. It's just a matter of getting back on the right track.

What's with Reaching for the View? I just always feel like I'm always trying to go one step beyond where I am. I'm always hunting for some kind of advancement. Maybe it's a matter of 'the grass is always greener'. I'm sure that's there, but I've just always generally been on a self-improvement quest. Whether it's trying to get out of debt (my wife and I have been working Dave Ramsey's plan for a couple of years now and now that we've found some traction due to career development hope to be out of debt in the next year), Trying to learn more about the movie industry (someday I want to be making films. Someday) or just trying to work on my body. Will I ever actually take off the weight I talk about trying to take off?

My new title though, is mostly an attempt to create something that allows me to be as all over the map as my mind usually is. I have a hard time pigeon-holing into just writing about triathlon or life or movies, it just has a way of all blending together.

I hope you come along for the ride.