. . . . . JACKSON CLAFLIN!!! 🎉🎁😎 @Jackson Claflin Nice job homie 🏆 Everyone else - Stay tuned for the next one! It'll be spiritual-focused 👀

📢 IT'S TIME FOR A CHALLENGE AND THE WINNER GETS $150 💰 Starting tomorrow morning at 12:01AM CT... The person who posts the MOST pics of them at the gym between TOMORROW MORNING AND MONDAY NIGHT (2/12) wins! 📏GROUND RULES📏 ✅ Only 1 picture per day! ✅ You have to caption the pic with a quote or a prayer 🙂 ✅ It has to be a selfie Chalenge starts in 8 HOURS!!!

I’ve taken Joe’s advice and sat down, thought about what I really want to accomplish (externally - see my Letter to Self for internal/spiritual goals) over the long term, found images for those goals, and created a vision board which I’m putting on my wall to look at every morning. It was a liberating process, forcing me to face my fears of material success and over-ambition and take the imaginary reigns on my life. It’s somewhat ridiculous, especially for a college kid, that’s what anybody would think about the goals of great men. Now, I am using this vision to build short-term goals for accomplishing them. I recommend this process for all (see “classroom” tab of community).

Hello all, I am humbly asking everyone to please pray for the soul of my best friend Richard Baal (pictured left). He was a devout Roman Catholic who converted multiple people to the faith (including me). He was a righteous and kind person and he died at 22 early Sunday morning after a motorcycle accident where he wasn’t at fault. He died at an age where you shouldn’t even think about death. This tragedy has shook me to my core and, thanks be to God, I am now appreciating life much more. Please never take life for granted, and never take your loved ones for granted. Tell them you love them because you never know if it’s the last time you’ll get to do so. Please pray that our Heavenly Father may look not on any of his sins and may accept him into His Heavenly Kingdom. Also, please pray for his family and friends. God bless you all.🕊️🙏🧡

Writing this letter was difficult for me. It forced me to be realistic with where I am as a man now, and what it will take for me to start toward becoming the man I want to be. It’s anything but eloquent, but at its essence it’s the standard I want (and need) to hold myself to. No one else can accomplish this for me. It has to be me, and it’s going to be me✊