The Power Of Thr33

Three (3) is a very common number in the world we live in TIME (Past, Present, Future) SPACE (Height, Width, Depth) MATTER (Solid, Liquid, Gas) THE NUMBER OF DIVINE PERFECTION. The Trinity consists of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. There are three qualities of the universe: Time, Space, and Matter. To exist (except for God) all three are required. Each quality consists of three elements. Therefore, we live in a trinity of trinities (Matt Slick, 2016)  Samuel is called by the Lord 3 times before he realizes it and answers. Satan tempts Jesus 3 times before giving up. It is on the third day of creation that Earth is made. The placard on the Cross is written in 3 languages. Jesus raised 3 people from the dead, Lazarus, a widow’s son, and the daughter of a man named Jairus.(FLAMEHORSe, SEPTEMBER 20, 2012) Peter Denies Jesus Three Times  Three Nails Were Used In the Crucifixion Three Were Crucified (Jesus, Thief 1, Thief 2)  Jesus Was Raised Three Days Later  From the truths I see in God's word and in creation I believe that three is a number of completion.  It is a number that God clearly established as significant.   I know that I have had confirmations come in threes in my own life.  I use the number for encouragement and edification  When I meet someone knew I say their name three times in my head to remember. Three Times Charm Rocks Paper Scissor I encourage you to examine where the number three may be apparent in your life and if it holds any significance to you.

Remember Me

"But now, thus says the Lord, your Creator, O Jacob,And He who formed you, O Israel,“Do not fear, for I have redeemed you;I have called you by name; you are Mine" 

Isaiah 43New American Standard Bible (NASB)

There is power in your name.  How great is the feeling when you meet someone at the gym or at work for the first time and when you see them again a few days later they call out your name, "BRENDAN!" passing by.  I know for me it always makes me smile.  I had always felt bad when I met someone and could not remember their name.  It's terrible when someone knows your name and you forgot theirs....that is when you return the greeting with a "What's Up My Man!" 

Now, whenever I meet someone  for the first time I make sure I write down a note in my phone or in my log so I will not forget.   

When you remember someone's name, it shows...

1. That you have a good memory

2. You value them 

3. You connected 

Next time you meet someone new, remember their name so you will be ready to call it out when you see them again.  

Never Get Sick Again

Shroom Tech Immune

I supplement ONNIT Shroom Tech Immune  every morning with 16 oz of water immediately upon waking. 

Benefits include but not limited too...... 

1.  Morning Defense 

Immediately boost the immune system upon waking and while you have an empty stomach.  Supplements that are not fat soluble are most beneficial when taken with an empty stomach.

2.  Water, Water, Water 

H20 is crucial in the morning!  Your body has been at rest for at least 6 hours with out water.  Your muscles are begging to be saturated with water so they can get to work and recover.  Your system uses the water you have stored before you go to bed to disperse itself at night and repair and answer all the "calls" from the other areas of your body needing attention.  This is how we heal!

3. The Big Three 

Sleep, Water and Shroom Tech Immune  , the triple threat to equip an already strong defense to keep outsiders from bringing you down.  

Faith Focus Finish,

Brendan 

#FaithFocusFinish

Give Me A Snake & I'll Make A Nice Pair Of Boots

"Give me a snake and I'll make a nice pair of boots with, yeah" - Andy Mineo 

Listen to the song  Desperados by Andy Mineo

If you give me a snake I will make a nice pair of boots with it!  I picture a pair of really nice boots wrapped in snake skin, polished to perfection, ready for the whole world to see. The first time I listened to this song that verse about making boots stood out to me.

After listening to it more an more I began to use the verse to encourage people.  At our training evolution's I used it as motivation, yelling out loud TIME TO MAKE SOME BOOTS before a set of 25 to 30 pull ups.  If you give me a snake I will make a nice pair of boots with it! YEAH!  One candidate really took the affirmation to heart.  Candidate Mitchell who is a brother of mine.  At tough points during our training he would yell back to me, "HOOYAH Micik Make Some Boots"

I love this verse! If i could go back to senior year, you know it would be under my picture in that 07 year book.  

The verse is POSITIVE, it puts that when life gives you lemons quote to shame.  It encourages all people to make the best out of what they get.  To receive it with thanks and make one nice looking pair of boots.  

SO GO OUT TODAY AND TAKE BACK YOUR LIFE, DON'T ALLOW THE SNAKE TO TREAD ON YOU, DEFEAT THE SNAKE AND LET THE WHOLE WORLD KNOW ABOUT IT.  

2015 A New Year

January 1st, 2015

I am excited for the year ahead.  As I look back on 2014 I reflect on what I did with the time I had and the resources given to me.

It is valuable to now look ahead to 2015 and ask yourself....

what can I improve on?
how can I better use my time and resources?
where am I heading?
what steps do I have to take?


I recently saw Unbroken on Christmas day with my family.  I was encouraged by the amazing story of survival, resilience and redemption.  Lou Zamperini's life has left a legacy.  He is gone but it is what he did with his time on earth that left the impact.

His story encourages me to be thankful and to be more mindful of the people in our world that may be facing the struggles that he had to endure in his time at POW camps.

Some days may seem tough, but find the strength to keep going, and other people will see you make the hurdles and they too will follow.

Happy New Year,
Brendan J. Micik

Every man is responsible for his own destiny

“Every man is responsible for his own destiny” – Raiden (Mortal Kombat)

Every single soul will have the opportunity to turn to God, confess his/her sins and walk from darkness into light.  I found that in 2013 and early 2014 I became way too consumed about other people.  I carried bitterness in my heart and self righteousness.   I talked more about God then I talked with Him.  Instead of seeking his kingdom I was dwelling in my own.  I was separated from the vine and I was not bearing fruit.

Christ called men and women in scripture to repent and seek the kingdom of God.  Jesus is the Way the Truth and the Life.  In order to seek the kingdom we have to imitate him and grow to be more like him through sanctification.  I worried to much about other peoples walks of life instead of working to strength my own faith which was and is weak.  Christ wants all of us to seek him with a humble and gentle heart, to leave all past failures and wounds at the cross and to continue to be made new. 

We are broken pieces of a pot and he has picked us up to remold us into a new slab spinning on the rotator with his hands forming the new creation.

The quote at the top is referenced from a movie I saw as a young boy called Mortal Kombat.  Raiden is a leader in the movie who guides the mortals who are willing to enter into single elimination tournament in another world.  He articulates and imitates what the Holy Spirit is to us.  The Holy Spirit from God is a guide which encourages us to be strong and courageous but also wise. 

He said this line to Lu Kang who is consumed by his brother’s death and continues to blame himself for the loss.  We all beat ourselves up sometimes for things that are just out of our control.  We have to understand that control is a dangerous thing and too much may make us think we don’t need God at all.  We all need him through Jesus Christ and although we can control some outcomes…. we continue to walk in faith by saying I trust in you Lord knowing that the ending outcome will be good. Salvation awaits all of us and He has prepared a room for you and me. “ My Father’s house has many rooms; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you?” – John 14

With Love,

Brendan J. Micik

FaithFocusFinish

Sedentary Suicide

It is no secret that America has been plagued with high rates of cancer, diabetes and heart disease.  Many medical professionals believe a large contributor to this recent upward trend has been linked to the sedentary lifestyle Americans have adopted.  In this day in age with the advancements in technology people have replaced the need to find food (exercise) with the ability to buy food 24 hours a day ( most of which is usually processed in some way).  Instead of working in the fields America works behind a computer screen, instead of playing outside children are playing video games inside.  All the exhaustive measures have been taken out of the equation, the consumer is handed a frozen TV dinner instead of gathering dinner by hand.

To make matters worse, researchers have discovered that not only is being sedentary bad for your health  you can't reverse it's negative effects with exercise.

"A large review recently published in The Journal of the National Cancer Institute confirms what we’ve been hearing for years: Sitting can be fatal.

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It’s been linked to cancer, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease. In this latest meta-analysis, Daniela Schmid and Michael F. Leitzmann of the University of Regensburg in Germany analyzed 43 observational studies, amounting to more than 4 million people’s answers to questions about their sitting behavior and cancer incidences. The researchers examined close to 70,000 cancer cases and found that sitting is associated with a 24% increased risk of colon cancer, a 32% increased risk of endometrial cancer, and a 21% increased risk of lung cancer.

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The really bad news: You can’t exercise away the habit’s harmful effects. “Adjustment for physical activity did not affect the positive association between sedentary behavior and cancer,” the authors write. Even participants who achieved the daily recommended levels of physical activity were at the same risk as those who spent their day sitting. “[The results] indicate that the increased risk of cancer seen in individuals with prolonged time spent sedentary is not explained by the mere absence of physical activity in those persons,” the researchers say.

1. Sitting –> weight gain –> elevated risk

When you’re sedentary, you burn only about a calorie a minute. Being overweight or obese is a known risk factor for many common chronic diseases. The cancer risk, the authors note, comes about because obesity can promote insulin resistance and bodily inflammation, two of the many things known to increase increase the risk of cancer for people of above-average body weight. Interestingly, the authors also mention the link between obesity and vitamin D deficiency, which has beenassociated with an elevated risk of colon cancer.

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2. Sitting –> inactive muscles –> harmful biological signaling

Sitting also means your large postural support muscles, such as the quadriceps and glutes, aren’t doing anything. When active, these muscles produce a suite of beneficial molecules. “Skeletal muscles have an electrical activity in them when they’re working which is like the light switch that turns on all these healthy things in the muscles,” explained Marc Hamilton, director of the Inactivity Physiology Program at the Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Louisiana in a recentwebinar. When you sit, you turn these light switches off.

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A widely studied casualty of this blackout is lipoprotein lipase, an enzyme that Hamilton likens to “a vacuum cleaner for fats in the blood stream.” When Hamilton forced rats to remain inactive for 24 hours, their lipoprotein lipase activity became virtually nonexistent (a 90%-95% reduction). This led to a more than 75% drop in the ability of their muscles to remove noxious fats from the bloodstream, as well as a significant decrease in “good” cholesterol (HDL cholesterol).

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Hamilton has also found that just a few hours of sitting suppresses a gene that helps keep your cardiovascular system healthy by controlling inflammation and blood clotting. The worrying thing, Hamilton told Runner’s World, is after a day of sitting, exercise doesn’t seem to turn the gene back on. As the article pithily put it: “Sitting is the new smoking—even for runners.”

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The good news for the proactive is you can break up the sedentary cycle fairly easy.  Take a walk around your building or through your hallways several times a day.  Go to the gym on your lunch break and instead  eat at your desk when you get back.  Try to include coworkers within these activities for entertainment and comradery value.  With every given problem there is a solution but it comes down to your will to put forward the effort in order to see change.

What to do

"But there is some good news. Studies have found that simply interrupting your sitting time with short breaks of movement—just standing or walking slowly—has beneficial effects. In a 2008 study published in Diabetes Care, researchers from the University of Queensland in Australia equipped 168 adults with an accelerometer, measuring their every move for seven consecutive days. Those who took more breaks from sitting had narrower waists, and lower body mass index, triglycerides and glucose tolerance—all important measures for obesity and metabolic health. The average length of their breaks: just four and a half minutes.

Pinpointing just exactly how long or frequent these breaks need to be is still up for investigation. More recent research show signs of improved glucose metabolism with one minute and 40 seconds of walking every 30 minutes for a nine-hour sitting period, as well as two-minute bouts of light-intensity treadmill walking every 20 minutes throughout a five-hour sitting period. In short, getting up and walking around at least twice an hour can keep your skeletal muscles turned on and lower the risk of disease.

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Finally, sitting doesn’t have to be the default. Though we’re still awaiting a scientifically-backed, quantitative recipe for reducing the damage, there are some simple changes you can make to get out of your seat. You can take walking meetings, try standing desks (here’s how to build your own) or treadmill desks, take more breaks throughout the day, or add some exercise to your commute by biking, walking or simply parking further from the office entrance. Or, if you’re feeling particularly ambitious, you could try what Dan Kols, a writer for New York magazine, did, and eliminate sitting entirely. I wish your heels good luck."

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Newman, H. (2014, June 26). Why not even exercise will undo the harm of sitting all day—and what you can do about it.. Quartz. Retrieved June 27, 2014, from http://qz.com/223160/why-not-even-exercise-will-undo-the-harm-of-sitting-all-day-and-what-you-can-do-about-it/