Fresh start

(I'm in the top left)

Coach Travis Holley challenged everyone on his blog to The Wake Up Challenge this past Monday. After the Monday I had from being worn out and simply not in the mood to do anything, I took on this challenge full speed ahead.

I popped out of bed on Tuesday morning at 4:50 and the 1st thing I said in the mirror, as I am popping my Advocare, was the following:

Incantation 1: Awesome stuff finds me as I live an authentic life!

Incantation 2: I make a difference. I am beautiful. I am balanced!

These are 2 incantations I have been alternating back and forth each morning. Both resonate with me from different places. After only 4 days of this practice, crazy things have been happening.

• A new possible personal training client
• Brother moving to Austin in a week
• New revenue stream for Relentless Training Systems with GGBP
• Meeting people the most random ways and developing new friendships
• After a talk with Clarkie, I am way more open to the possibility of competing in a Figure competition
• Random people asking to order Advocare care from me

These are a few examples. The biggest shift has been in my attitude and being present all through out the day. This challenge will go well beyond 2 weeks for me. Once again I understand how extremely powerful is the mind! I dare you to jump on board. 

Passage I read this morning-- Giving the events of your life (even the crappy ones) an empowering meaning is something we condition. It's something we get stronger and stronger at over time. It's not a quick fix. But we can rewire our brain (aka our thoughts) to look out into the world from a different point of view. What you look for will determine what you find. How you look out into the world will determine your emotions and thoughts, which determine your actions, which creates your life.

Goals

Goal achievement doesn’t come down to dreaming, writing out and planning. It comes down to the day-to-day decisions and behaviors of DOING what you said you were going to do, long enough for you to make it to the end point.

The past month and a half I have been hashing out my goals and everything I want to accomplish over the next year. I found it super encouraging to see I am already checking goals off my list before I even posted this blog. Coach Lisa Thiel is my accountability partner; her and I are seeing to it that we accomplish, reassess where needed, and take action. I challenge you to take the time to plan your life. Find someone to hold you to it. Below are some of my goals for 2011. Make your goals a reality!

PERSONAL

12 MONTH—

 I will be a Lulu Ambassador- 12/2011

 I will cook every recipe in Mark Sisson’s cook book.

 I will go on 1 date per month.

 I will be featured in a top fitness magazine- 12/2011

3 MONTH—completed by 3/31/11

I will have Showout brand developed

Patent

Logo design

 Website--- showoutlife.com

Shirts

I will cook every recipe in Mark Sisson’s cook book.

Prepare 1 new recipe each week

I will have professional photos completed- 3/5/2011

12% body fat

Find a photographer

 Schedule makeup appointment at MAC

Buy clothes

I will purchase an SUV

 Decide what car I want

Financing- done and done

I will expand my knowledge on CrossFit, boot camps, exercise science, business

 Read, watch videos a minimum of 15 minutes a day, 5x/week

 

PHYSICAL

3 MONTH—completed by 3/31/11

I will complete a muscle up

 I will practice muscle-ups on Mondays 10 minutes before/after class

 I will perform 10 consecutive chest-to-bar pull ups

 I will do 30 pull-ups, 5x/week

 I will perform 5 consecutive butterfly pull ups

 I will practice the butterfly movement on Tuesdays & Wednesdays 10 mins before/after class.

 I will perform HSPU in a workout

 Spend 10 minutes once a week practicing HSPU on days I do yoga.

Walk on hands 2x week before class

 Wall/hand/shoulder touches—perform 10, 2x/week on yoga and run days

 I will have 12% body fat

 Corn chips allowed 2x/month

Limit alcohol consumption to only 2x/week, max—clean drinks only