How to Stop Escaping and Start Leading in Your Relationships, Health, and Finances

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Welcome to One Day Out, a weekly newsletter to help deepen your faith, enhance your health, and guide you in pursuing a purpose-filled life.

🙏 Opening Prayer:

Lord, thank You for the gift of another week to grow, serve, and walk with You. Help me steward my health, relationships, and resources in a way that honors You. Teach me to love more deeply, train with intention, and give with a joyful heart. Amen.

👋 Note from me

This weekend, my fiancée and I dove headfirst into 8 weeks of premarital prep condensed into 2 days. It was eye-opening, challenging, and honestly, a blessing. Between that, switching up my training and dialing in nutrition, learning to truly open up in my relationship, and starting to tour apartments with my future wife, this week reminded me that growth doesn’t always come from doing more—but from doing it differently.

🙌 FAITH

This weekend’s premarital intensive was one of the most important investments we’ve made in our future marriage. One major theme that stood out to me was communication—especially understanding each other's patterns during conflict. I’ve learned that I tend to withdraw and avoid tough conversations, often rooted in how I responded to conflict growing up. But escape isn’t connection. Avoidance breeds distance.

One line from the weekend that stuck: “Make your relationship a safe place to have hard conversations.” That takes intentional effort and prayerful vulnerability. I’m trusting God to help me unlearn old habits and create new ones that lead to connection, not retreat.

📖 Scripture for the week:
"Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed." — James 5:16

🏃‍♂️ FITNESS

I started a new fat-loss phase where I’m still training 3x per week full body, but with a new twist: 2–3 sets of 12–15 reps, 30 seconds rest between exercises. It’s brutal in the best way—high heart rate, deep muscle burn, and extremely time-efficient.

I’ve cut back on long cardio sessions and now just do two VO2 max-style runs per week (like 30/30s or hill sprints), plus long walks to stay active and recover well. If you’ve already built a strength foundation, this style of training is a killer way to accelerate fat loss while preserving muscle.

💡 Try this: Pick 5 compound movements (e.g., goblet squats, pushups, rows, RDLs, DB press) in a 10-15 rep range and circuit them with 30s rest. Go a few rounds and you'll feel it.

🍽️ NUTRITION

I’m 5 weeks into my cut—down 2.5 lbs. That’s just 0.5 lbs per week, but it’s right on track. I was being too aggressive early on and felt it in my energy and performance. Now I’m sitting at ~2300 calories/day, eating 3 high-protein meals (about 60g each) and a light dessert or snack with extra protein.

I’ve also been leaning into hydrating fruits like cantaloupe and watermelon. You can eat a lot of volume for fewer calories, and they’re a refreshing break from bananas or dates in the summer heat.

🍴 Want to see how I grocery shop and meal plan for this? Click here to check out my guide.

💬 RELATIONSHIPS

We toured our first apartment together! Setting a budget, listing our non-negotiables (natural light is huge for two content creators lol), and being on the same page financially made the process feel unified and exciting.

We could justify spending more, but we’re choosing to live under budget so we can save toward a future home, while also living in an area we really love before we move out to the suburbs when we decide to buy a house. This experience reminded me that communication, compromise, and clarity matter just as much in the small day-to-day decisions as they do in the big ones.

🧠 PERSONAL GROWTH

Money has always been a tricky subject for me. But in my men’s Bible study, one guy shared how the Lord showed him over many years that God gives money to those who are ready to be responsible with it and He can trust them to use it for the building of His Kingdom.

At the pre-marital course, one thing that the couple leading the session shared was to ask yourself, “How much can I give?” instead of “How much can I save or spend?”

That hit me hard.

The finance session echoed that same truth: we don’t own anything—God does. Our money is just a tool for His Kingdom. This isn’t prosperity Gospel. It’s about surrender. Stewardship. Joyful generosity.

🧠 What if the real flex isn’t in how much you accumulate—but how freely and faithfully you give?

🙏 Closing Prayer

God, thank You for the opportunities this week to grow in love, wisdom, and discipline. Help me keep You at the center of my goals, my relationships, and my routines. Teach me to give generously, train intentionally, and communicate with love. Amen.

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