One Step Closer

Past weeks have been busy. Exams and reading week are right around the corner. I'm focusing all my effort to training and my studies. My 5 km morning runs still starts at 6 am followed by a 3 hour study session (damn these 4th year courses are hard)...then I'd go to the gym and work on my techniques and do some sparring for 3 hours then study for another 2 hours...then head to the gym again to do some weight training for an hour and a half and spend the remainder of the night studying. I feel tired...feel weak and when you feel weak, you feel like you wanna just give up...but you gotta search within you, you gotta find that inner strength....and just pull it out of you and get....that motivation to not give up and not be a quitter, no matter how bad I wanna just fall flat on my face and collapse…This is my moment and every single minute I spend trying to hold onto itcause I may never get it again. So while I’m in it…I try to get as much out of it as I can and when my time is over I will not regret. This routine is a monotonous one. But insistence will inch me closer to a better tomorrow. I just have to follow my honest convictions, and stay strong. Lessons in my life taught me to persistent on myself and never imitate. So when December 28th comes…Until the roof comes off...until the lights go out…Until my legs give out from underneath me, I will not falter, I will stand tall, feels like no one can best me. For your family and true supporters they want me to succeed...they make you feel as though you’re taking their dream on your shoulders but when you go out there…when it comes time to do it they can do nothing…if they could…they’d give their heart for you…but they can’t …so its just me…all me…

I’ve spent most of my boxing career a safe distance from the spotlight and now the Florida glare beckons…and I’m confident it won’t blind me. This is the stage I’ve been dreaming all my life…for all the struggles and for all hard work…I’ve finally arrived. In the beginning it started with...“One man”…..me. With “One dream”…..my dream…that took my whole life to get this “One chance”…a chance of a lifetime that will hopefully bring me to unpathed waters and undreamed shores….it isn’t hard to be good at what you do from time to time but what’s tough is being good at what you do everyday consistently knowing that you are never a loser until the minute you quit trying…