Sunday, April 10, 2016

No to No



     Since I start picking stories behind the front, it created another story behind this stories. Or maybe more than one I am not sure. A new thing I learnt in last few days is lot of people gets scared to talk about their own. A few people I succeeded getting their story but more I got rejected. We should be proud of what we are, should be satisfied with what we have, be comfortable with the community we live in. People tend to think everyone else probably thinks the same way like they do, it happen to be human nature. Well NO! We all have our own unique way of thinking. I will consider myself an open book, you can come and just read it for free anytime. That was the mentality I had when I went to others and asked if they would be interested being part of my blog? A lot of them panicked, some even got upset end up giving me some weird look. Our trust issue is getting worse day by day, I will just blame it on the circumstance and the type of world we live in. It is very sad. Now, I could go on forever but I think made my point, just felt like share this feeling with you all. 

It Gives you Wing



Boneless or traditional style chicken wing are not only great source of protein, it is also a food loved by majority of humans all over the world. “Buffalo wild wing” is a place where these chicken wings are served in various different way based on your taste. Personally it is one of my favorite place to go hang out, grab a drink and have wings with my friends.
Their food is so delicious that I always wonder, who are the people behind that kitchen wall fixing them magical food for us? Although they have their secret recipe and ingredients but here I want to show my appreciation towards the wonderful crew members who is willing to be there do this for us.
Juan Gonzalez, raised in Topeka, a high school graduate is one of the member I got to talk to. He is a full time employee works in the kitchen as cook, he’s in charge of making burritos, salad etc. sometime work as dish washer according to the need. He said they got very nice work environment there, along with wonderful co-workers. It is not is first food chain job, he worked in other restaurants before but it’s the best one of his experience. Best part of his job he likes the most is working as a team because that’s like having fun time with people around and get some serious work done at the same time. It helps him not to get tired or bored of what he’s doing and stay focused. Like every coin has two side, every other thing has it too. On the bad side what makes Juan upset is when he gets pushed hard to rush. However it’s understandable because good restaurants do care about their fast service a lot. Money wise they pays their employees very well.


Above that “Buffalo wild wing” offers free Red Bull energy drinks to their employees. How amazing is that! I could never guessed, if this guy wouldn’t the point. 

Even though it is fun to work there, his challenging part of his job work is the “Big Game Days.” They gets slammed by guests, they gets insanely busy those days. Well it’s surprising and we all know it because most of us had been there at least once to watch our favorite team play. Juan said; kitchen gets super busy in such times that he struggles to keep up with the flow sometimes but they get it done somehow. Good work compliments motivates him towards his job, he like raises too. He feels it would be nice if everyone works hard in the crew. But it’s universal rule we will have one of those lazy one around us that makes us all mad. Overall at the scale of (1-10) one being the least and ten being the most, he will rate his job eight as I asked him.
As a person he is very cool. He loves watching Netflix with his girl, going out to lake and have quality family time. They are expecting a baby in near future, he seems to be extremely excited about it. Juan is one of those thousand people who does a lot for us behind that wall, probably compromising their own favorite teams game working in that kitchen, just so we can enjoy watching ours. Although it’s their own choice, let’s always keep them in our consideration and always appreciate what people hike Juan is doing for us every day.  

Beauty and the Beast

Such a heart melting story of an unlikely friendship of Lindsay and David. David Douglas; 6 feet tall and 334 pounds, Marine Corps veteran and champion weightlifter David "The Beast" Douglas, 29. And Lindsay; 12-year-old girl who stands 3 1/2 feet tall, weighs 30 pounds and is affectionately known as his "little sis."
Lindsay is fighting with  progeria, a rare, fatal genetic condition that causes premature aging at 8-10 times the normal rate, with most of those afflicted dying of heart attacks or strokes at about age 14.  Douglas met the little girl and her parents, Joe and Kristy Ratcliffe, in 2013 when he volunteered to participate in a weightlifting event put on by the charity Relentless Powerlifting. 
since then Douglas had made his duty to help Lindsay in anyway he can. He stepped up to help the Ratcliffes in their crusade to raise awareness. They will be holding their 11th annual Miles for Miracles walk – led by Lindsay – in Flat Rock on May 7, with proceeds benefitting progeria research.

For More Information:
http://www.people.com/article/weightlifter-friendship-girl-progeria



Thursday, April 7, 2016

It's the New Him



Nothing is impossible, if the goal is set and the effort is given to stay on top of it until the goal is achieved. Those ones who is underestimated and not looked at like an average person because of their overweight or being out of shape, is possible to change if they decide to work hard enough.
Shawn with his daughter
Shawn Breitkreutz a football lover, played football while he was in high school. After graduation he took s full time job and gets busy with life. However my point here is something else, might sound rude but I am going to say anyway. Shawn use to be an unhealthy over weighted kid. According to him- for his this kind of health he felt tired all the time, he had lack of real confidence. Every time he looked at the mirror it made him sad. Good part here is “Mirror” is what made him taking his life time decision. He didn’t like what he saw in the mirror, so he decided to change that, decided to do everything it takes so that “he can look in the mirror and make himself feel good.”
After (current)
Before
He gets a gym membership with one of his buddy, started working out together. In few weeks his buddy felt out, however he kept going. Alone! He did quite a bit of research and found this 3 month transformation program he finished it, he saw some result what motivated him even more. His vision was very clear, and in all sudden he starts playing football again, which is love of his life. Body transformation does not happen by only weight lifting or hardcore exercise. Eating healthy and being on healthy diet is a very big part of it. Grocery, cooking, prepping takes a lot of time. After working a full time job, playing football and spending huge amount of time in the gym working out, it is not easy to find time to cook. First it was little challenging, but later he got so used to it. Now, it takes him about two hours to prepare and prep meal which he uses for a whole week. This is another key of understanding how passionate he is. His journey has not been easy, what we see in front of our eyes is the result but it took him a lot to get here. There was uncountable of time he would be exhausted, tired, different joint pain, muscle sore in various places that want him to quit. He did not. Shawn said form his personal experience “those days he did not feel like going to gym, but drag himself here, those had been his most productive days of killer work out. He dragged himself to the gym because he had the confidence that he will feel better for himself by the time he leaves. He lived through out a quote “excuse will always be there for you, opportunity won’t”.
After (current)
Before
 Shawn mentioned people do not at him the same way they used to. When someone show their appreciation for his great transformation that simply makes him smile. He is a real chill person at the gym, anytime if anyone needs help with anything he always tries his best to help them. His dream is to open an Olympic style gym in future. His advice to those kind of people who are living an unhealthy life but willing to do something about it is “do not care what other people thinks about you, do it for yourself, in the end what all matters is if you made yourself happy”.
It is not a TV show or life experiment. Shawn is real, so is his transformation in Topeka, KS. He is just another example of Success after Hard Work. I had great time listening his story, he is also very kind as a person. Wish Shawn a very good future and hope him to motivate others in life changing event.

Shawn Breitkreutz (NOW)