January is over and time to focus on February and wanted to highlight a few things from the first month of the new year.

For starters, I survived, no I freaking owned Dry January! Myself and two of my buddies took on dry January and were all successful. I was able to lose 12.5 pounds and also slept better than I had in a long time.

So am I happy that January is over? Yes, because I can have a beer or glass of wine and not feel like I am cheating myself. No, because I really challenged myself to do something that was out of my norm and to learn something new about myself.

But that wasn’t the only reason that I’m glad that January is over, we celebrated the 10th anniversary of my Mother In Law’s death. This year, was a little tough. 10 Years. A full decade. Over 10,000 days. That is a long time, yet it feels like yesterday.

January is a hard month, if for no other reason than the loss of my wife’s mother, but it was compounded with trying to break and change bad habits too. In the end, I came out more aware and more focused on what I needed to do and I came out a better person.