PERFECT!

January 31, 2011 By

Every time you bash yourself or cut your self down, you are hurting someone. Your spouse, your sibling, your child, your parents, your best friend. See…that person you are hurting thinks the world of you. They don’t see the little “imperfections” that you “see”. They see someone who is beautiful and perfect in their eyes. Don’t insult someone they love and admire…..because you are someone they created, married, care about and/or want to be like and, in their eyes, YOU ARE PERFECT!


You’re so mean, when you talk about yourself, you were wrong
Change the voices in your head, make them like you instead
So complicated, look happy, you’ll make it!
Filled with so much hatred…such a tired game
It’s enough! I’ve done all I can think of
Chased down all my demons, I’ve seen you do the same

Oh, pretty pretty please, don’t you ever ever feel
Like you’re less than than perfect
Pretty pretty please, if you ever ever feel like you’re nothing
You’re are perfect to me

~P!NK

Filed Under: Motivation

It’s You….

January 28, 2011 By

If you’re looking to become more confident, look in the mirror. The person who can give you real confidence, is you.

Others can teach you, encourage you, and express their own confidence in you. Yet if you wish to have confidence in yourself, you must earn it for yourself.

The only way you can know your abilities is by putting them to work. Real confidence comes from your own experience of doing.

Every challenging situation is an opportunity for you to strengthen your confidence. Within every difficulty is the very real potential for growth.

The experience of making an effort creates confidence. The experience of making another effort, and another and another, until you get the job accomplished, creates even stronger confidence.

Confidence comes when you know you can do it, and the only way to know that is to do it. Step forward, take action, and your confidence will grow each time you do.

Ralph Marston – The Daily Motivator

Filed Under: Motivation

Announcement

January 20, 2011 By

Fitness To Go is now offering Personal Training at SNAP FITNESS in Roberts. Find out how you can train with me at Snap and receive a 10% discount on all personal training packages!

Filed Under: General

Getting Real

January 10, 2011 By

Your Personal Trainer/Fitness Professional/Fitness Instructor/Whatever 4 letter word you want to call them is a REAL person. We put our pants on one leg at a time just like you. We my be trying to quit smoking, or working on cleaning up or diet, or struggling to meet a new fitness goal just like you. We, too,  have our good days and we also have our REALLY bad days.  We have the days where all we want to do is lay on the couch, flip on the tube, veg out with a bag of Cheetos and watch reruns of the Jersey Shore (that comment right there should show you that I am FAR from perfect). And you know what….it’s ok! WE ARE HUMAN! And any trainer that tries to make you believe that they are perfect, or they never cheat on their diet or they don’t skip work outs is not being “REAL” with you. How can a Fit Pro expect you to be totally honest with them when they won’t be totally honest with you? REAL fit pros will listen to your concerns and not belittle you for “slipping up”. They can relate to you because they have probably dealt with the same problem and because of that, they can give you great advice because they’ve been there. And even if they haven’t been in the exact same situation , they will show compassion and not try to guilt you into “being perfect”. We are not perfect and a REAL Fit Pro shouldn’t expect you to be either.  Is your trainer “real” with you?

Filed Under: General, Motivation, Uncategorized

Today…

January 10, 2011 By

How are you going to make today different than yesterday? Will you learn from your mistakes? Will you make the changes that you want to see in your life? Will you finally do that thing that you said you always wanted to do? Or will you beat yourself up for not being EXACTLY where you want to be in life, or for not staying on track with your goals or for not doing all the things you said you would do? What happened yesterday is in the PAST! No matter how many times you replay it in your head, you can’t change it. IT IS WHAT IT IS. But, what you can do is learn from it and move forward. Don’t let your past keep you stuck and unable to see the possibilities of your future. Tomorrow will always be a new day, but the choices you make today can be the start of SO MANY good yesterdays.

Filed Under: General, Motivation, Uncategorized

Get SMART and Reach Your Goals

January 3, 2011 By

Did you get off track over the Holidays and you’re not sure how to get back “on”? Do you have goals you want to reach in 2011, but you’re not sure how to? Try the 2011 SMART PLAN! With the 2011 Smart Plan, you’ll learn how to create your goals and how to stay on track until you reach them.

Specific

Measuarble

Attainable

Realistic

Timely

PLAN

Specific: Be specific with your goals. Don’t just plan to run a marathon or lose 50 pounds. Instead make it a specific goals like, “I will run the Twin Cities Marathon this fall” or I will lose 50 pounds by September 1st. Being specific makes the goal “real” because you have a specific thing you are striving for.

Measurable: Make your goal measurable! If your goal is to lose a certain amount of weight by a certain date, determine how much weight you’d have to lose per month to reach that goal. This creates smaller goals out of a larger one. Sometimes the big picture can feel so far away, but meeting the smaller goals will keep you motivated to reach the ultimate one!

Attainable & Realisitic: Make sure your goal is attainable. Losing 50 pounds in one month is NOT ATTAINABLE OR REALISTIC! No matter what you see on the Biggest Loser, no person living in the real world can lose weight that fast in a healthy way. Just like you can’t go from no activity to running a marathon in 1 month. Make sure your goal is one that you can attain. Setting goals that are not realistic is only setting yourself up for failure and a huge let down.

Timley: Set a time frame of when you’d like to reach your goal. If you don’t set a time frame of when you’d like to reach your goal, then the commitment is too vague and you might play the “I’ve still got time” game. You can also break down the large time frame into smaller ones to help you stay motivated and moving forward. If you are looking to run longer distances, plan to run “X” miles one week and add on a half mile the next week, and then another half mile the next week until you are you to the distance you want to run.


PLAN: Plan for slip ups and temptations. We live in the real world and in the real world NO ONE is perfect. You will reach a point during your journey where someone says “Come on…just one piece of cake”. You may feel tempted, but do you know what you’ll do in that situation if you really don’t want to eat that cake. Or, if you do eat the cake, are you prepared for the possibility of eating another, and another, and another? Plan for this so you can be ready if you find yourself in this situation and how you will stay on or get back on track.

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