Hey there, it’s Logan and I’m really glad you’re here. Today’s post is a special one because one thing that really makes me excited is sharing everything I’ve learned since March 2024, with you.
See, back in March ‘24, I found out my wife and I were having a baby. This news literally changed my life, and I don’t mean that in its most common and cliche sense, I mean it literally changed my life. In this post, I’m going to tell you in 5 steps how I turned my life around in less than 2 years. 21 months ago I was 60lbs overnight, I was drinking way too much, way too often. This version of Logan, became the new normal. It’s the version of me everyone in my life came to know, the out of shape, sloppy, drunk guy who refused to grow up. I was always tired, always sick, always broke. My friends and family just came to expect this version of me. Some of my friends I met during this season of my life, and when I woke up and realized this isn’t the version of me that I want to be anymore, some of these relationships have become distant. You can read more about how to handle relationships and relationship changes in your own life here, in one of my previous blog posts.
The morning of March 5th, 2024, something changed in me. A self-destructive version of me that I had been feeding and keeping alive for over 6 years was dead. A few weeks earlier on February 27th, 2024 would be the last time I would ever have an alcoholic drink. I decided to quit, cold turkey. That decision to give up drinking systematically changed my life in every way. It was the decision that got the ball rolling, and this avalanche of self-improvement hasn’t stopped moving since.
1. LIVING LIFE SOBER
February 2024, if you are like I was, drinking was purely a means of escaping. I would drink to escape nightly PTSD, I would drink to escape social anxiety when I was out with my friends, I would drink to escape the past. Alcohol wasn’t something I consumed to have fun (even though that’s what I thought), it was something I consumed so that I would numb my mind and forget everything that has ever happened in my life. Instead of dealing with my trauma, I suppressed it deep inside myself. So deep that I would forget about it entirely. So once I quit drinking, learning how to survive in this world sober was really hard, I’m not going to sugar coat it. But what I found in just the first few months of being sober is that all those feelings I worked so hard to ignore were the very core of who I really am. Instead of running as fast as I can away from my past, I need to lean into it and embrace the challenges I faced at such a young age because that is my fuel, that is my superpower. Being alive on this earth for over 680 days - sober, has been the driving force behind every single other change I have made in my life.
2. EATING HEALTHY
March 2025, you are going to see as we go through these how every single change that I have made piggy backs off of a sober lifestyle. The next change I made in my life was my diet. I want to say something quick, these changes were not made “quickly” necessarily, in the grand scheme of things maybe they were, as they’ve all taken place in under 2 years, but I didn’t do them one after another. There are some months in between implementing each of them. I want to encourage you to follow that same approach because even if it is a good change - too much change is not good for a human to experience too quickly. We are hardwired to resist change, it’s just how we are made up. So if you rush the process of change, you will most likely give up too soon and never complete the total transformation you are hoping for. Personally, in my journey, it wasn’t until March 2025 when I started to eat healthier and watch what I was putting into my body. Like I said, this was a year after I quit drinking, not the month after. This time allowed me to become comfortable living life sober before I implemented another change which was living life without fast food, dairy, cookies and other unhealthy foods. I started substituting a donut in the morning with a banana, and a Big Mac for lunch with a high protein chicken sandwich or a salad. Eventually, I gave up red meat entirely as well. I only eat white meat like chicken, turkey, and fish as well as pork once in a while. I gave up pizza, cheeseburgers, pasta, and I only have cookies or dessert in general, every once in a while, in extreme moderation. I eat 80-100 grams of protein a day, I do not miss a day on this, ever. I have become extremely disciplined with my diet, to the point where it is a habit and feels natural for me to follow on a daily basis. The way that I used to eat seems absolutely insane to me now, a distant memory, just like drinking alcohol.
3. EXERCISE
June 2025, is when I returned to the gym after not going for over 5 years. The best advice I have read about getting back into working out and making it a habit is from James Clear, author of the #1 New York Times Bestseller “Atomic Habits”. James Clear has this awesome system that he calls the “2 Minute Rule”. Basically, anything that you want to make a daily habit should be broken down into something you can do in 2 minutes or less. Because before you can make anything a habit, you must do it. You must take action every single day until it's routine, and you do it without thinking. So 50 push ups a day becomes 5 push ups a day and a book a month becomes a page a month. James even talks about in his book about someone who went to the gym every day but only did one set on one machine, and left. He was there less than 2 minutes but he was there every day and it became a habit. Eventually, down the road, once you’re exercising habitually, you can increase the amount you do each day. Too often, we try to do too much at the gym, and burn ourselves out. The most important part is showing up every day. Personally, I can’t make it to the gym every day with my current lifestyle, but I always lift weights at home for at least 15 minutes and I do crunches 3 times a day. I never miss, even if I’m not actually making out to the gym. Combining Habit 2: Eating Healthy and Habit 3: Exercising, I have lost 66lbs, and kept it off.
4. HAVING A MORNING ROUTINE
August 2025, I started a brand new habit. This one is something I had never done in 26 years of life. I started a daily morning routine. All of my life, I was the guy who would hit snooze about 25 times before I would roll over, grab my phone and realize I have to work in 15 minutes. So I would rush to get ready and rush to work, already starting my day drenched in chaos. Starting your day in a rush and starting your day differently every day is the fastest way to guarantee you have a bad day. I want to really dive into this because there’s a common misconception out there, actually a few. Some people think that getting up early or at the same time each day is simply enough and that’s routine. Some people think that even if they don’t get up at the same exact time every day, but they do the same things, brush their teeth, shower, make coffee, eat breakfast, that’s routine. I wholeheartedly disagree with both of these. You must get up at the exact same time every day and pair that habit with a specific set of things in a specific order each morning. For example, I wake up at 5:30 every single day. I drink a bottle of water before a cup of coffee, I meditate for 20-30 minutes, then I journal and write until I’ve been awake for 2 hours. At 7:30, I check my phone for the very first time. I am 100% device free for the first 2 hours I am awake. If the first thing you do is check your phone in the morning, you’re already putting others before yourself. You have to pick a time to get up in which you can be without your phone for 2 hours, don’t get up at 7 if you have to be at work at 9, that’s not realistic. You must pick things to do in the morning, and make sure you do those exact same things every single morning. This has changed my life.
5. READ
November 2025, I started reading for the first time in a very long time. So my final habit for you is reading. Read a book this month or if you’re following the “2 Minute Rule” a page this month. (Yes listening counts) - Here are some of my recommendations:
• The Let Them Theory by Mel Robbins
• Stop Letting Everything Affect You by Daniel Chidiac
• The Mountain is You by Brianna Wiest
• Atomic Habits by James Clear
I believe in you, and if no one else tells you today, I am proud of you.
You are on the path to a whole new life, and when you need me, I am here on this blog or inside one of my songs on Spotify/Apple Music waiting for you.