I remember sitting on the train trying to figure out what I was going to share on this about me page. People might be surprised when they read this but hear me out on this one. When I started this blog, I had just beaten suicidal tendencies, a giant depression and tons of insecurities plus I had boosted my testosterone above the limit in Belgium (they set the bar really low here). That used to be driving force behind this blog and it still is to this day but something changed. At one point I realized that boosting my testosterone was fun but I didn’t like writing about it. I was missing something and I couldn’t figure out what.
About Me.
That all changed when I was reading the book “The One Thing” for the second time during the summer of 2016. I finally realized what I was missing all these years. I had the drive to compete again and that book made me realize that fighting was my one thing. I stumbled on MMA a little later completely by accident and was completely sold on the idea. So I started doing MMA in September 2016 with the sole purpose of competing. There were a couple of problems attached to this idea. I was a fresh college dropout who wanted to compete in a cage, people got a wrong impression rather quickly. Most people didn’t support the idea and there was a lot of outside pressure to get a real job and quit the sport.
"I Never Intended To Take A Sabbatical But It Happened Anyways."
It Wasn't Always Easy But I Made It Work.
The first year after my drop out was more a sabbatical, to be honest. I mostly trained, blogged and did some temporary jobs in between but they mostly didn’t last that long. The shortest lasted a day and the longest lasted about 3 months. I quickly figured out that I didn’t like this at all but blogging didn’t make me the money that I needed and I still hadn’t had a fight because I was training in the wrong gym (lack of good training partners and knowledgeable coach).
This kind of let me abandon my goals a bit, I trained and blogged a lot but I kind of forgot why I did it. It got even worse when I suddenly got a real job in October 2017. I just did the interview because I had too and was actually looking to travel to Stockholm in November to train. The trip eventually got postponed to May of 2018 but that trip made me realize that I had drifted away from my goals so I needed to make sure that I changed things for the better so that I could do what I wanted in life.
"I Didn't Choose The Goal, The Goal Chose Me."
Unhappiness Pushed Me Towards My Goal Even More.
So now the goal was to quit my job and somehow move to Stockholm because a lot of top fighters train over there. Things didn’t work out and I was still at my job. The only good thing was that I changed training camps which made me improve drastically This all changed in February 2019. I was sick of constantly having to choose where my focus was at. The combination of blogging and training a lot didn’t really work out and it made me unhappy. So on Valentine’s day 2019, I decided that I was going to quit my job and travel to Thailand to chase my dream. I quit my job the very next day.
And now we are here on the train ready to get my visa to make sure that I can stay in Thailand for at least 3 months. Another bonus is that I can fight a lot over there which is high on my goal list because it’s actually a childhood dream.
This whole journey was a lot of fun and I’m really grateful that I found confidence and clarity in life. Both of those attributes helped me along the journey and now it’s time to teach you how to do it so that you can live the life that you’ve imagined while you’re were sitting depressed at your 9 to 5 job.