The Strength: Motivation Monday

Monday, June 13, 2011

Motivation Monday

My birthday was Saturday...43! I have never felt so good in all my life! Really! I was a overweight teenager, shy with horrible skin and out of control hair! Oh the drama...glad that is over"!In my twenties I was a pack a day smoker, bartender, drinker and late night nosher, and still overweight! In my thirties I quit smoking and got pregnant with twins gained 70 pounds and gave birth to my boys 14 weeks early, their combined weight was 3 pounds! I was suffering from post pardum depression and inadequacy being a first time mom. We moved 300 miles away from anyone I knew where my husband worked 12 hour days. Diving deeper and deeper into my drepession I tried to "heal" myself by drinking, a.l.o.t! Easily hidden from my work aholic hubby. I had actually had started smoking again. Ready to take the bridge, I sought help (still overweight). I went on zoloft and talked to a therapist for a number of months. I started exercising on a regular basis, because the facility offered 2 hours free daycare! I became a regular group exercise participant! Quit smoking...again...Started to regain a handle on my weight but not grasping the whole nutrition part of it. We moved back to Pennsylvania and I started to word 3 days as a manicurist, stopped exercising and gained 20 pounds! I started crash diets for quick weight loss for vacations, class reunions, and such...then time disappeared and I was soon to turn forty! I really looked at my diet and found that it was horrible! I decided to make some serious changes in my nutrition, which eventually included alcohol, but not right away. Small changes lead to bigger changes that lead to even bigger changes! Right now I can physically do things that I never thought possible at any stage of my life. It feels great to be 43! It was all because I wanted to change. Whether you think you can or you think you can't, your probably right!

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chrissy.stevensJune 21, 2011 at 2:33 PM
Another WOW! First, I want to say it must be hard to put yourself out there like this. You are such a strong, beautiful and motivating person. It is hard to imagine you were depressed, drank, smoked or was overweight. Second, reading this does give people hope and motivation that anyone can fulfill a goal. A fitness goal specifically. I think it is one of the hardest goals to achieve in life. It takes so much discpline to eat right, get to the gym and lift heavier weights :). Anyway,your story really does help so many women. Women that are afraid to voice their fears or past failures because of how others might veiw them. For me, you helped me through one of the worse times in my life. I look back and think about who I was before all the drama. I am always a good person. I know this. Just maybe not discplined enough to take care of myself before I started thinking about being strong and heathly. You helped me understand this and why it is important to always take care of yourelf. If you don't who will. Thank you for sharing such a personal story.
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Motivational Quotes

You must act as if it is impossible to fail.
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself!
Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.
Whether you think you can or you think you can't, your probably right!
If you are sick of starting over, you have to stop quitting
You won't fail if you're not perfect, you'll fail if you're not committed to improving yourself slightly each day.
We can reverse years of damage to our bodies by deciding to raise our standards for ourselves, then living differently. Old wounds heal, injuries repair, and the whole system improves with just a few changes in what we put into our bodies and how we move them.
Failure is not fatal; failing to change will be."
Food for Thought: The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Strengthen Your Desire! Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.
Success is not a race, be patient.
It's not about how good you are, but how bad you want it!
Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go..."
"Never trade what you want the most for what you want at the moment"
"Success is not a place that we aspire to, it is a process in which we live by. Often the only ingredient being the ability to not quit"
Be specific in what you want, and use specific words. Empower yourself, and become the person you dream about
That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do; not that the nature of the thing itself is changed, but that our power to do is increased."
The odds of hitting a target go up dramatically when you aim at it." ~Mal Pancoast
At the beginning of any task, more than anything else, your attitude will affect it's successful outcome.
Do or do not. There is no try.~Yoda
Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means, effort, pain, difficulty.
Focus on where you want to go, not on what you fear."
There is no one giant step that does it. It's a lot of little steps."
Start doing what's necessary, then do what's possible, and suddenly you'll be doing the impossible!
"My life tomorrow will be the result of my attitudes and the choices I make today."
People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing, that's why we recommend it daily. Zig Ziglar
"Clear your mind of can't." ~Dr. Samuel Johnson
"Any experience can be transformed into something of value. Everything depends on the way you look at things. You cannot have the success without the failures.
What are stumbling blocks and defeat before you, can be stepping stones to victory if you remain determined.
Listen closely: the only time it's too late to change yourself is when you're dead. Until then, you're simply making excuses or lying to yourself.
If you keep doing what you've always done, you'll get what you've always got!
"Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently". ~Henry Ford
What we think or what we know or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do. ~ John Ruskin
Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality." ~Ralph Marston
One definition of insanity is: Doing the same thing again and again and expecting a different result.
"If we defend our habits, we have no intentions of quitting them."
Your past does not equal, nor does it dictate, your future
Do you choose to simply know the path, or do you choose to walk it?
Your body keeps an accurate journal regardless of what you write down...
When one approach is not working to reach the desired goal, that's not a reason to abandon the goal. Instead, it is time to devise another approach."------Ralph Marston
Discipline is remembering what you want.
Knowing is not enough, you must apply.
Make the decision, then do something - no matter how small - toward accomplishing what you want.
Don’t live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable. ~Wendy Wasserstein
Food for Thought: The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Strengthen Your Desire! Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.