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So, my brother and I came up with this idea to totally rock the face off of New Year’s Resolutions.

In fact, we figured out that New Year’s Resolutions is a cruel mistress with only one intent in mind: get you all excited about changing your life and then rip your heart out with mediocrity and failure as the year plods on.

So, instead of making New Year’s Resolutions this year and fizzling out during the year, we decided to make them bow to us and carry out OUR whims!!

Just kidding…kind of.

Enter #One30.

Head over to WorkoutBrothers.com (our site) and check this thing out. We believe it’s a great idea and a better approach to New Year’s Resolutions. (Not selling anything)

Are you tired of getting all pumped about resolutions? And then trying to justify your failure later as you succumb to flesh and lose all motivation? We were too. So we created WorkoutBrothers.com. We wanted to find a fun way to approach and track our own journey.

It is a site dedicated to our journey to health and fitness. We’re not experts or muscleheads or anything like that, we’re just having fun chronicling our steps to a better and healthier lifestyle. Our website is that journal, of sorts. And it’s a place where you can join in the fun and cheer us on (and let us cheer you on too!).

So what is this #One30 that I mentioned earlier? Simple: Making health and fitness goals 30 days at a time.

Pick ONE big goal, get at it for 30 days! Instead of choosing 1 or 2 resolutions that you fail miserably at by the end of the year, you’ve got 12 opportunities to make some great choices and goals. And the 30 day time frame is just short enough to actually accomplish them, while long enough to build momentum and create good patterns!

Personally, I’ve decided to drink ONLY WATER for the month of January. What big thing can you do for 30 days? Walk outside? Cut out processed foods? Eat fruits & veggies? Exercise with friends? Cut out sweets?

If you subscribe here, and would like to follow us in our journey, please do! We’ll be keeping a blog with goals, results, videos, photos; tweeting; building community through our facebook group (where you can share YOUR results too!); and just generally having a great time!

Give us a shout on twitter or Share our link on facebook!

Let’s PWN this new year!!

Fred’s got a post series going over at his place asking folks to chime in about their 2009. I figured I’d jump on board and invite you to as well: http://www.fredmckinnon.com/myblog/2009/12/28/2009-review-part-1-best-and-worst-happening/

My first Best & Worst is “Happenings” – what are the best and worst happenings of 2009 for me?

Best:

I have a few, but I’d say the top 3 are:

1) The Big Move:

We made a move from Valdosta, Ga to Brunswick/St. Simons Island area. My wife got a great new job and I began a season of sabbatical from full-time staff ministry life. I’m working as a graphic designer in the print world and loving every moment of it. It’s a whole new world! I’m able to volunteer at church (with my music) and I’m absolutely loving this feeling of giving (that isn’t attached to my paycheck).

2) Attempting to Write 50 Songs:

Well, I didn’t achieve that goal, but the very fact that I attempted it and wrote a good bit of songs/music is GREAT! You can listen to some of my results here: http://twt.fm/RussHutto

And though I’m a little bummed that I didn’t reach 50, I am stoked that I’ve written/arranged more music this year than in any other previous year of my life!

3) Camping With Friends!

We had a great time camping. This was just a few weeks ago. There’s nothing better than hanging with good friends and family! I love these kinds of trips and since this is really the only one we took this year, I’d have to say that it was one of my best happenings of 2009!

Worst:

I don’t feel like I had a lot of “bad” happenings this year, but I’d probably say the worst part of my 2009 is directly tied to my “best” happening.

Though moving to the Golden Isles is one of the best things this year, it also came with one of the worst:

Leaving behind my family at House of Joy. I still keep in touch. But there’s a certain bond that develops when you lead worship with people and do life together. I love those folks! In fact, I tried to convince them all to move with us!

This is a GREAT way to introduce people who are not plugged in to a church family to church that may live far away from your home church, or that might live right where you do but aren’t “into” going to a church building.

I’m all for leveraging any and every form of technology we can to expose people to truth and NPO is doing a great job at that. There are many who believe that this is just wasted effort because they can’t grasp the impact that this might have as a gateway for someone to enter into local church family. I see it as a starting point, a doorway.

This isn’t the main course, but an appetizer of sorts.

And depending on the season of life someone is in, this might be the ONLY faith family that they can plug into. Deployed. Away from home. Moving to a new town. Etc.

Check out the upcoming series, Losing Your Religion at NPCC. They’ll be inaugurating NPO (northpointonline.tv) with this series. Follow the project on the NPO blog.

Promo: “Losing Your Religion” from North Point Media on Vimeo.

Head on over to The Worship Community for the review!

I really enjoyed listening through this one!