Gratitude

It's so easy to spend many minutes of many days thinking about what I want more of, what I'm not happy about in my life and how I'm going to change.

Enter gratitude journal. It's a book of all the things that are going right and all the little things that need to be given thanks. It's all the people that are wonderful in my life and the roof over my head that I never want to have taken for granted. So each week I try to take time most days to reflect on these things. It's definitely changed my spirit...God truly blesses.

“Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.”-Denis Waitley

Thoughts

Try and really let this resonate within you. Think about it for a second.

Your thoughts become your words
Your words become your flesh
Your flesh becomes your actions
Your actions become your character

YOUR THOUGHTS DRIVE YOUR CHARACTER
YOUR THOUGHTS DETERMINE REALITY

Brain Overload II

I try to make it to one national/worldwide convention a year. Yesterday I returned from an educational voyage in San Diego, The 2009 ACE Fitness Symposium. Gosh it was wonderful, I was on cloud nine. I mean, seriously, being in such a positive atmosphere where I can listen to the guru's preach passionately on something I love, love so much. Where do I even begin? My brain hasn't actually processed everything just quite yet so sharing my latest findings from the symposium will be deposited in installments.

The first keynote speaker, Todd Durkin, was absolutely phenomenal. It's the second time I've seen him present and boy it just gets better. From my notes:
-Strive to be 1% better each day.
-The quality of a person's life is directly related to what they want, not what they fear.
-Connect with your spirit.
-Go the extra mile, the "and then some" extra effort. Go over the top.
-Your mind drives everything.
-Give yourself permission to take a day off. (Especially like this one)
-Intention sets reality.
-Focus: give, serve and find meaning.
-Strive for balance everyday.
-Small changes lead to great changes.
-Fuel fire with passion.
-Are you willing to pay the price?
-If you're tired you're not inspired.
-When things get bad, you're one turn away from making it better.

Yes, this is just one tidbit I got from 3 days of 7am to 6pm lectures, workouts, question-and-answer sessions and pages of notes. There is more to come...stay tuned!

PS-Sweet Detox Done

14 days of no sweets really wasn't bad. I finished last Sunday. It's all about breaking the cycle. Tomorrow is Halloween...definitely an evil holiday in so many sweet ways. I'm probably going to...one day....just need to give up sweets all together because it wasn't so bad and I didn't have the option. Options are what gets me.

100% Try

Excuses don't matter. They really just don't.

Excuses aren't going to get us where we need/want to go. There will always be obstacles. There will be emotionally draining days. Change the focus from finding a way out (excuse) to how can I jump over this hurdle. How can I make this work? I guarantee if we change our internal dialogue to something positive and avoid all negative self talk excuses will be gone and we'll be on our way to victory.

Try 100% this week on just one little thing. I'm going to try 100% this week to not eat anything after 7:30pm. What's your's going to be?

Pilates Anyone?

I LOVE Pilates! My good trainer friend, Kim, teaches Pilates on Wednesday night at 6pm at Pinnacle. It’s a pay as you go class, $7/class. Think about trying it out as Pilates is one of the best ways I know to whittle away at the midsection...it's why I implement it into each of my classes in some form or another!

Sweets-B-Gone: Day 10

10 days clean. Check.

Is it easier for me because I'm a trainer? No.

Times I wanted to quit my silly 14 day detox. Around 10.

Evil Sweets that tempted me:
-Donuts (go figure) while passing through a town I normally indulge in at the small bakery where the donuts are divine.
-Tonight when hubby had m&m's on the counter. Decided to put them in a cabinet where I could not see them anymore.
-Last week on a date with hubby. We like sweets together.
-Afternoons seem to be a trigger. I seem to be hungry and my body wants a carb no matter the form.
-The first two days of the detox were (and always are the worst). It didn't really matter what kind of sweet, it just wanted something because it was used to being spoiled in that sort of way.

4 more days left. I can do it and so can each set of eyes that are reading these words.

Sweets are a drug. They are and have been my drug of choice. Viewing them that way helps me see what's actually happening. There's absolutely no nutritional value to that type of crap. Break the cycle. Break the cycle.