Sunday, September 7, 2014
My friend Justin and I are working to expand the Michael G. Santos Foundation. Our organization faces many challenges, but we’ve done quite well since launching the initiative. By working together as a team, we’ve created a living project, influencing more than 10,000 people. Administrators in prisons, jails, and schools use our Straight-A Guide program to teach others how they can prepare for success, regardless of past decisions or current circumstances. The message is quite simple. When individuals identify the values by which they profess to live, they take the first steps toward establishing a personal constitution. That constitution should guide all of their future decisions. Once they establish those value categories, they can effectively set goals that harmonize with those values. Then they must make a 100 percent commitment to achieving the goals. That’s it. It’s a three-step plan. Visualize. Plan. Execute. We’ve built our Straight-A Guide Program around that simple concept, and now thousands of people are learning from our collaboration. Yet we have many more people to reach. The challenge of course, is raising the capital necessary to grow. That’s why we’re putting our heads together now, anticipating that we can raise additional funding that will spread our program further over the next few years.
Days since my release from prison: 391
Miles that I ran today: 8.38
Miles that I ran so far this week: 8.38
Miles that I’ve run during the month of September: 44.09
Miles that I ran so far in 2014: 1,755.08
Miles that I need to run in order to reach my annual goal of 2,400 miles: 644.92
Miles I’m ahead of schedule to reach my 2,400-mile goal by the end of 2014: 106.01
My weight for today: 168