Q & A with Dawn Alison

Oct 10,2014
pt of the day


Life's a forge!
Yes, and hammer and anvil, too!
You'll be roasted, smelted, and pounded,
and you'll scarce know what's happening to you.
But stand boldly to it!
Metal's worthless till it's shaped and tempered!

Oct 11, 2014
pt of the day


VISUALIZATION:
It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief.
And once that belief becomes a deep conviction,
things begin to happen.
Champions aren't made in the gyms.
Champions are made from something they have deep inside them
a desire, a dream, a vision

Oct 12, 2014
pt of the day

It is not the critic that counts;
not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles
or the doer of deeds could have them better.
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the Arena,
whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood;
who strives valiantly;
who errs and comes short again and again,
because there is no effort without error and shortcoming;
but he who does actually strive to do the deed;
who knows the great devotion;
who spends himself in a worthy cause,
who at the best,
knows in the end the triumph of high achievement,
and who at the worst,
if he fails while daring greatly,
knows that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls,
who know neither victory nor defeat.

Oct 13, 2014
pt of the day

happy thanksgiving

I cannot always control what goes on outside.
But I can always control what goes on inside.
I am convinced that attitude is the key to success or failure in almost any of life's endeavors.
Your attitude--your perspective, your outlook,
how you feel about yourself, how you feel about other people
determines your priorities, your actions, your values.
Your attitude determines how you interact with other people
and how you interact with yourself.

PIC: TEAM Fit Body's Thanksgiving Wkend Posing Practice Crew

Oct 14, 2014
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Strength does not come from winning.
Your struggles develop your strengths.
When you go through hardships
and decide not to surrender,
that is strength.

PIC: Brandon Best TEAM collaboration of Fit Body & Iron Fit

Oct 15, 2014
pt of the day

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life
as by the obstacles which he has overcome.
Stubbornly persist,
and you will find that the limits of your stubbornness
go well beyond the stubbornness of your limits.

Oct 16, 2014
pt of the day

Have we not all, amid life's petty strife,
Some pure ideal of a noble life
That once seemed possible? Did we not hear
The flutter of its wings, and feel it near,
And just within our reach? It was. And yet
We lost it in this daily jar and fret,
And now live idle in a vague regret;
But still our place is kept, and it will wait,
Ready for us to fill it, soon or late.
No star is ever lost we once have seen,
We always may be what we might have been.

ATTENTION MEMBERS: BCABBA AGM (Annual General Meeting)
will be held on November 9th at 10am.
It will be held in the Hyack Meeting Room at the Inn at the Quay
900 Quayside Drive, New Westminster (same room used for the Nov 7th check-in procedure).
proxies are available on our website: www.bcabba.org

Oct 17, 2014
pt of the day

food for thought: FOCUS ON YOURSELF & RUN YOUR OWN RACE.....
don't worry about what others are doing,
don't look around,
just focus on what you need to do,
it's not about where others are, or what they are doing,
it's about you and your goals....
a great analogy of this is the FAMOUS RACE "the Miracle Mile"
one of the greatest moments in sport....

Bannister vs. Landy
On August 7, 1954 during the British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Vancouver, B.C.,
England’s Roger Bannister and Australian John Landy met for the first time in the one mile run at the newly constructed Empire Stadium.

Both men had broken the four minute barrier previously that year.
Bannister was the first to break the mark with a time of 3:59.4 on May 6th in Oxford, England.
Subsequently, on June 21st in Turku, Finland, John Landy became the new record holder with an official time of 3:58.

The world watched eagerly as both men approached the starting blocks.
As 35,000 enthusiastic fans looked on, no one knew what would take place on that historic day.

Promoted as “The Mile of the Century”, it would later be known as the “Miracle Mile”.

With only 90 yards to go in one of the world’s most memorable races,
John Landy glanced over his left shoulder to check his opponent’s position.
At that instant Bannister streaked by him to victory in a Commonwealth record time of 3:58.8.
Landy’s second place finish in 3:59.6 marked the first time the four minute mile had been broken by two men in the same race.

Such exhilarating events are common in sports but few are captured so dramatically.
A moment that took only a fraction of a second was frozen in time forever.

this picture was taken at the Empire Stadium at the PNE Grounds in Vancouver
and is appropriately named "The Moment,"

you can watch the video of this amazing race here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jP_NzZP_LK0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jP_NzZP_LK0

Oct 18, 2014
pt of the day

Habits are formed by the repetition of particular acts.
They are strengthened by an increase in the number of repeated acts.
Habits are also weakened or broken,
and contrary habits are formed by the repetition of contrary acts.
Such as are your habitual thoughts,
such also will be the character of your mind;
for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.
YOU ARE THE RESIDUAL RESULT OF ALL YOUR PAST THOUGHTS & ACTIONS....
take responsibility for yourself,
your body, your happiness, your health, your life....
CHANGE STARTS IN THE INSTANT CHANGING OF YOUR THOUGHTS,
WHAT YOU FOCUS ON EXPANDS,
WHAT YOU THINK CREATES YOUR REALITY,
YOUR THOUGHTS SHAPE YOUR WORLD,
YOUR THOUGHTS SHAPE YOU....
you don't like your body or your life,
it starts in your mind, it starts NOW...
you can procrastinate your life away,
DO IT NOW !

PIC: TEAM Fit Body's Jamie Leggatt
down 28 lbs in her prep so far for the Nov show,
keep on rockin' it Jamie