Life is an interesting thing.  Never at any point in my childhood did I think that as a 36 year old man I would be driving my car around for a living.  Even when I started doing it I never planned on doing it for a long time as I have.

I had big dreams growing up and they all seemed to revolve around sports.  Anything from playing or announcing or writing about them.  Somewhere along my path I forgot about doing those things.  Maybe I got lazy or the money got too good to pass up but for whatever reason those dreams became secondary.  Even though I forgot, there were enough people in my life that reminded of what my talent were.  My mom would often tell me that I was wasting what I was blessed with.  Even though deep down I agreed with her I didn’t know any way to change my circumstances.  I didn’t really want to give up a decent paying job, especially with a mortgage to Try and do something I hadn’t thought about as a real option for me in a very long time.  Plus with all the hours I was putting in working I didn’t have any time.  Then something happened to change all of that.  I lost to major contracts at work and it left me with a substantial amount of time on my hands.

I started to scramble around to try to find more work but as that process was ongoing I Had a thought that it was time to start a blog.  I had always talked about doing that and finally I had the time.  I started writing pretty much every day and it was almost always about sports.  My passion for them hadn’t diminished over the years and I had 15 years of things to write stuck in my head.

I Started by writing about teams and stories that I had a strong opinion about and went from there.  When I started I didn’t think that anything would come of it.  I was just doing something that I loved and trying to take my mind off of the hardships I was having with work.

I’m not very tech savvy but really wanted to get my opinions out there.  Thankfully the blog site I chose to use had links for me to put my stories into the social media world.  Every time I wrote I would link my stories to Facebook and twitter and hope that someone would find some use for them.  After writing about ten stories I decided to do a list about the BYU quarterbacks.  I didn’t think the story was my best work But I was proud of it none the less.  I put it out to the social media world and that’s when I caught a huge break.  I got a message on twitter asking if I would give permission for that story to be published.  My first thought was “all you have to do is press the re-tweet button,” but then I looked and saw who the tweet was from.  I did a Google search and realized that it was a serious offer.  My story ended up on deseretnews.com and I was told about how I could submit other articles for consideration.

After about two months of writing I had more than ten articles published by the dnews.  One of the articles even ended up on Bleacher Report.  My friend sent me the link one morning and it definitely made my day.

I loved that my opinion was able to get out into the world on such a national scope.

As I continued to write I had another amazing thing happen.  I got a note on twitter that a sports show had been talking about by BYU articles on the radio a lot and wanted to have me on as a guest.  They arranged a time for me to come on and I got interviewed for almost half an hour.  I love sports so much and getting to talk about them has always been my passion, so to get to do it on the radio was such a huge thrill for me.  I figured out something during that interview that I have always known….that sports in where I belong.  Since then I have had a few more stories published and have almost made it to a million page views.

Even just a few months ago I thought none of that was possible, but since I’ve had the blessing of being able to experience a little piece of my dreams from my childhood, there is no turning back.  It feels too good to let anyone or anything stop me now.  I know that it will be a long, hard road to fulfill all the potential that is inside of me but I am willing to put in the time and effort to do it.

I know that I am one of the lucky ones that has been blessed with so many wonderful opportunities as of late and throughout my life and I can’t overlook those in the slightest.  I’ve also been blessed with so many supportive people who helped point out the direction I needed to go.  Those people helped remind me of what I am truly capable of when I put my heart into it.  They always told me I could do it even when I had lost sight of those Dreams.

What I’ve learned from this experience is that there are things in life that we are meant to do and no matter how far away those dreams become at times, there are still very reachable.  Sometimes it just takes a dead-end to pop up for us to realize that there was another path available to us all along.

When we figure that out there is no one in this world who can stop us but ourselves.  I’m not sure who originally said it but it definitely applies.  “Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.”  I have never believed that quote anymore than I do right now.