“Never be afraid to fall apart because it is an opportunity to rebuild yourself the way you wish you had been all along.” ~ Rae Smith
“The man who goes farthest is usually the one most willing to do and dare.”
Dale Carnegie
“Fear less, hope more, eat less, chew more, whine less, breathe more, talk less, say more, hate less, love more, and good things will be yours.”
Swedish Proverb
“Don’t ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”
Harold Whitman
“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
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CONGRATS Siobhan and Tamara!
Rockstar sisters who crushed their race this weekend!
Congrats all racers! What race is up next??
“It’s repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.”
Muhammad Ali
“Be at least as interested in what goes on inside you as what happens outside. If you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place.”
Eckhart Tolle
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MOTIVATION: change what isn’t working.
If you’re not stacking up the workouts the way you’d hoped, CHANGE your approach. Change what isn’t working.
If you’re trying to get up at 6am and failing, schedule your workouts for evening. If you started running and quit because you hate it, switch your workout. If the yoga class you joined is boring you, change it up.
Challenge yourself but also set yourself up to succeed. Don’t join the hardest class, join something else. Shift your idea of what you “should” do. If you’re not doing it, change your focus and do something else.
But do it now. Do not let temporary failure stop you. Move forward. Find success.
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“Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never—in nothing, great or small, large or petty—never give in, except to convictions of honor and good sense. Never yield to force. Never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.”
Winston Churchill
“Don’t let ANYONE ever make you feel like you don’t deserve to become what you want to be.”
“Welcome the challenges as being a necessary part of life, and they will strengthen rather than stop you.”
Ralph Masterson
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“Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go.”
- T.S. Eliot
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“Progress is impossible without change and those who cannot change ther minds cannot change anything.”
~ George Bernard Shaw
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MOTIVATION: make your workout work for you.
Some days you feel light as a feather and want to eat fruit all day. Other days your stomach demands a footlong sub. You don’t eat the same thing for every meal every single day of the week. Why do the same workout all the time? Borrrring. Change it up. Make your workout work for you—whatever that may be. Some days you wanna bang out a solid 6 miles while other days you wanna ride your bike around nice and slow taking in the scenery and stopping for ice coffee along the way (invite me please). Your body simply cannot sustain the same routine every single day (especially for those of us who’ve been running for 15-20 years!). Even for the strongest of mind and will, the most exciting workout will get boring at a certain point. And then you’ll stop doing it. Which we want to avoid at all costs. Plus cross training is of utmost importance! It could be as simple as swapping one workout class for another. Or go for the big change. Get crazy. Change it up. But don’t let your workout defeat you. Make it work FOR you.
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