What if you realized that everything you thought was important wasn't? What if you let go of all the anxiety that is keeping you from moving forward? With very little exception, the only thing in life that is truly permanent is death. Do not restrict your life by feeling controlled by your own decisions that you have every ability and opportunity to reverse, change, alter. Failure is entirely more eminent if you fear it, and will reach you far sooner than will success. Embrace all possibilities and they will all embrace you: The good, the great and the bad, ugly, and failed. Truly falling through failure more than once and in more than one ungraceful belly flop is both horrific and necessary and unique for everyone to fully reach their potential and their center. Fighting failure is failure...Let go, try, fail, learn, move on and repeat!
Wednesday, February 25, 2015
Sunday, February 1, 2015
Keep A Short List
It's not that you'll ever get through your to-do list as it is an ever growing list, but do try to keep a short list. Huh? A Short List is the ongoing dialogue of emotions and stressors in your daily life.....who frustrated you, who you are mad at, what your spouse did or didn't do that they should have, etc, etc, etc, the overwhelming, complicated triggers in our lives list. Don't hold on to that garbage, because it's only hurting you....it's not changing the idiot that cut you off in traffic, it's hurting you! Keep it short, simple, and sweet. Deal with your mess daily and don't carry the balance over 'til tomorrow!
Surprise Yourself!
Two sides to this coin for which I was recently reminded. Tackle the hard tasks first and Do what intimidates you (face your fears). If you know me well, you know the former is something I do daily. I come by my work ethic and tough as nails stubborness honestly through genetics. I think of my grandparents and know I have them to thank!
Seriously though if you tackle the tough tasks first, then the rest is like dessert ;-) This not only applies to all aspects of daily life & growth, but to our fitness journeys as well. If there is something you dread or do not like doing, Just Do It! Is it tracking your food, planning your food, doing your workouts, specific workout moves (burpees?)? Whatever it is, tackle it before procrastinating it tackles your success!!! Just like the first time you tried holding plank, this too gets easier and soon you will wonder what all the fuss was about in the first place. Don't believe me? Go ahead, prove me wrong....catch is, you will have to do it, and do it, and do it before you can tell me it doesn't work....Go ahead ;-)
I was recently in a situation that I wanted to turn away from because it was intimidating and seemed like a no win situation. I set my jaw and faced my fears by being prepared for all scenarios I went into the dreaded task at hand. As with most twists and turns in my life, I was surprised to discover the thing I thought was going to be a disaster was actually a blessing! That's the thing about our lives and our fitness journeys, you can't judge by your fears what is going to be the best path. Nor should you just wing every moment. I do love the saying that 'if you fail to plan you plan to fail'. It's true, you have to be prepared best you can for what you face and then Just Do It! Realize too that sometimes our best successes come out of the many failures along the way. Another saying I love and live by is that 'it is only a true failure and bad experience if you do not learn anything from it'. My life is built on the many lessons learned and I am truly blessed and better off for each rocky moment. Embrace the difficulty and move forward a stronger person for it!
"Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses, and disappointments, but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures." ~Joseph Addison
Seriously though if you tackle the tough tasks first, then the rest is like dessert ;-) This not only applies to all aspects of daily life & growth, but to our fitness journeys as well. If there is something you dread or do not like doing, Just Do It! Is it tracking your food, planning your food, doing your workouts, specific workout moves (burpees?)? Whatever it is, tackle it before procrastinating it tackles your success!!! Just like the first time you tried holding plank, this too gets easier and soon you will wonder what all the fuss was about in the first place. Don't believe me? Go ahead, prove me wrong....catch is, you will have to do it, and do it, and do it before you can tell me it doesn't work....Go ahead ;-)
I was recently in a situation that I wanted to turn away from because it was intimidating and seemed like a no win situation. I set my jaw and faced my fears by being prepared for all scenarios I went into the dreaded task at hand. As with most twists and turns in my life, I was surprised to discover the thing I thought was going to be a disaster was actually a blessing! That's the thing about our lives and our fitness journeys, you can't judge by your fears what is going to be the best path. Nor should you just wing every moment. I do love the saying that 'if you fail to plan you plan to fail'. It's true, you have to be prepared best you can for what you face and then Just Do It! Realize too that sometimes our best successes come out of the many failures along the way. Another saying I love and live by is that 'it is only a true failure and bad experience if you do not learn anything from it'. My life is built on the many lessons learned and I am truly blessed and better off for each rocky moment. Embrace the difficulty and move forward a stronger person for it!
"Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses, and disappointments, but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures." ~Joseph Addison
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