Q & A with Dawn Alison

Sept 15, 2014
pt of the day


“To live is the rarest thing in the world.
Most people exist, that is all.”

“Life will break you.
Nobody can protect you from that,
and living alone won't either,
for solitude will also break you with its yearning.
You have to love.
You have to feel.
It is the reason you are here on earth.
You are here to risk your heart.
You are here to be swallowed up.
And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed,
or left, or hurt,
or death brushes near,
let yourself sit by an apple tree
and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps,
wasting their sweetness.
Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could.”

PIC: TEAM Fit Body's Lauralee Cheng
photocredit: Vicky Lee

Sept 16, 2014
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“You cannot expect to achieve new goals
or move beyond your present circumstances
unless you change.”

“Every single condition in your life
can be improved
if you learn to be more effective at visualizing what you want
and having the intention to manifest it.”

Sept 17, 2014
pt of the day

Overcome your fear.
Get out of your comfort zone.
Find out you have a pulse.
Let something give you butterflies in your stomach.
This is how you know you’re alive
how you grow into something new.
Every fear overcome is a freedom gained.
Don’t know how to overcome fear?
Do the thing you’re afraid of.
Cross them off the list.
Make it a game.
Pretty soon, you will be invincible.

Summary of Election Results came out yesterday
Sept 16th, 2014

The new Executive Committee of the BCABBA
(BC Amateur Bodybuilding Association)
will be comprised of the following:

1. Dawn Alison, President;
2. Scott Welch, Vice-President;
3. Robert (Bobby) Thornton, Secretary-Treasurer; and
4. Jeni Briscoe, Director-at-Large.

Sept 23, 2014
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Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
It was character that got us out of bed,
commitment that moved us into action,
and discipline that enabled us to follow through.

YOU WILL ALWAYS MISS 100% of THE SHOTS YOU NEVER TAKE.....

DON'T YOU QUIT....
When things go wrong, as they sometimes will,

When the road you're trudging seems all uphill,
When the funds are low and the debts are high,
And you want to smile, but you have to sigh,
When care is pressing you down a bit-
Rest if you must, but don't you quit.
Life is queer with its twists and turns,

As every one of us sometimes learns,
And many a fellow turns about
When he might have won had he stuck it out.
Don't give up though the pace seems slow -
You may succeed with another blow.
Often the goal is nearer than

It seems to a faint and faltering man;
Often the struggler has given up
Whe he might have captured the victor's cup;
And he learned too late when the night came down,
How close he was to the golden crown.
Success is failure turned inside out -

The silver tint in the clouds of doubt,
And you never can tell how close you are,
It might be near when it seems afar;
So stick to the fight when you're hardest hit -
It's when things seem worst that you must not quit.

Sept 24, 2014
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"Now" is the operative word.
Everything you put in your way
is just a method of putting off the hour when you could actually be doing your dream.
You don't need endless time and perfect conditions.
Do it now.
Do it today.

Sept 25, 2014
pt of the day

“Do not spoil what you have
by desiring what you have not;
remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.”

“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence.
Talent will not;
nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent.
Genius will not;
unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.
Education will not;
the world is full of educated derelicts.
Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
The slogan "press on"
has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race”

PIC: TEAM Fit Body's Tracy Sheepwash
& PHOTOCREDIT: Vicky Lee

Sept 26, 2014
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Happy Anniversary to my Wonderful husband Brandon Best....
Brandon sent this to me before we had ever met in person:
" I am completely there for you In all areas of your life
& just love me love me
& know that I will never abandon you or betray you
& will look at you with the same adoration & longing 10 yrs, 20 & beyond"
I typed it out and printed it off and laminated it and to this day over 4 yrs ago
it is still where I taped it on my bathroom mirror and I put the title to it "My Angel"


DAWN & BRANDON OUR STORY:
for those who don't know we were married 4 yrs ago today in Las Vegas on the Sunday of the Olympia Weekend...
we planned & paid for the wedding before we ever met each other in person.
We met not on a dating site, but on a Online Bodybuilding website www.rxmuscle.com owned by my then Coach Dave Palumbo.
Dave started RXMuscle Feb 2009 and gave me my own thread on the Forums.
Brandon had been a Moderator on the Official Muscular Development Magazine forum where Dave was working when I hired him then got fired.
So Brandon along with alot of Dave's loyal followers left MD and came to RX.
Brandon & I struck up a friendship as we would see each others posts, and we would respond both on the forum and private message...
after awhile we both got "Blackberry" cellphones with BBM instant messaging,
so we would message each other throughout the day every day.
Early in 2010 I said "I'm going to the Olympia this year" (I had never been), Brandon said "i'm going to the Olympia this year too"...
more time passes... i said "I booked my flight" Brandon says "I booked my hotel" I ask "Does it have a kitchen?" He said "yes a full kitchen"
so I booked my room there also sharing it with Vicky Lee.
More time passes and that year I competed twice in 2 Canadian National Shows.
Brandon helped me alot and I noticed how he had an effect on me like no one ever had in my life,
I can be quite a livewire and he had an uncanny way of calming me down which i'd never before experienced...
then one day he messages me and asks "would you like to go to this Olympia After Party with me?"
I reply "Well you better be careful or i'll get you drunk and marry you !"
he says "You don't have to get me drunk to marry me"
I thought to myself hmmmmmmmnnnn....
more time passes...
one day we are talking and I message him and say "Hell why don't we just get married on Sunday after the Olympia?"
he said "Ok"... so we did...
we met for the 1st time at the Las Vegas Baggage claim on the Thursday
(see video of it all here: http://youtu.be/4GnMACnQv6Q )
http://youtu.be/4GnMACnQv6Q
we went straight from the baggage claim, to get the marriage license, to get the Olympia VIP ticket, to the grocery store, to the Hotel..
then Friday & Saturday was all day and night Olympia events, and
Sunday we were married.
His flight was Sunday night, when I took him to the airport for a late flight,
and cried all the way back to the hotel, not long after I arrived there he called said he was on his way back to the hotel,
they had overbooked the flight so he got off and was to fly out Monday instead.
So we had our wedding night together after all...
Monday he went back to Memphis, TN, USA and me back to Canada.
He moved up here to Canada Nov 21st, 2010 and we have been together ever since...
not only has it made our lives better, but also my son Storm's life better...
HERE'S TO MANY MANY MORE YEARS TOGETHER,
LOVE YOU ALWAYS, Dawn xo

Sept 27, 2014
pt of the day

DISCIPLINE:
The ability to make yourself do what you should do,
when you should do it,
whether you feel like it or not.
Self-discipline begins with the mastery of your thoughts.
If you don't control what you think,
you can't control what you do.
Simply,
self-discipline enables you to think first
and act afterward.

Sept 28, 2014
pt of the day

“If I had to select one quality,
one personal characteristic
that I regard as being most highly correlated with success,
whatever the field,
I would pick the trait of persistence.
Determination.
The will to endure to the end,
to get knocked down seventy times
and get up off the floor saying.
“Here comes number seventy-one!”
“I am not judged by the number of times I fail,
but by the number of times I succeed:
and the number of times I succeed
is in direct proportion to the number of times
I fail and keep trying.”