Q & A with Dawn Alison

June 26, 2016
pt of the day

“You must live in the present,
launch yourself on every wave,
find your eternity in each moment.
Fools stand on their island of opportunities
and look toward another land.
There is no other land;
there is no other life but this.”
“Happiness,
not in another place
but this place...
not for another hour,
but this hour.”
“I, not events,
have the power to make me happy
or unhappy today.
I can choose which it shall be.
Yesterday is dead,
tomorrow hasn't arrived yet.
I have just one day,
today,
and I'm going to be happy in it.”

June 27, 2016
pt of the day

"You have to dream before your dreams can come true."
Some people throttle their potential
by refusing to think "what if?"
and ignoring what's truly important to them in life.
You have to start dreaming before you can achieve anything.
Persistence is much of what separates the successful from the pure wishful thinkers.
Distinguish yourself by staying motivated even in the toughest of circumstances.
"Press on.
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.
Talent will not;
nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.
Genius will not;
the world is full of educated derelicts.
Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent."

Jun 28,2016
pt of the day


“If we choose not to get involved
or pretend it's not happening,
we're going against the very sense of connection that makes us human.”
“If you want to make a difference,
the next time you see someone doing wrong to another human being,
take it personally.
Take it personally because it is personal.”
“Stand up for your conscience.
Use light to reveal what is concealed in the darkness.
Use truth to fight the lies,
and the heart to fight the mind.”

June 29, 2016
pt of the day

“Make the most of every moment.
Get excited about every little thing.
Why not?
Why not have your wonderful moment of excited anticipation?
Why not be happy NOW?
This is my greatest challenge,
but something I'm pouring my heart into:
learning how to enjoy what I have,
right here, right now.
Every moment is precious and although sometimes I struggle to see it,
I see it more and more every day.”
“Embrace your inner lunatic.
Fun times guaranteed.”
“We are never more fully alive,
more completely ourselves,
or more deeply engrossed in anything,
than when we are at play.”



TEAM Fit Body as 2 MIXED PAIRS TEAMS for the COUPLES CLASS
at the BC CHAMPIONSHIPS 1 wk this Saturday at Canada Place
Brandon & Dawn and Colby & Scott
gonna be a blast to share the stage with these wonderful people

Jun 30, 201
pt of the day

“Courage is the most important of all the virtues
because without courage,
you can't practice any other virtue consistently.”
“The best way to predict your future is to create it.”
“One's philosophy is not best expressed in words;
it is expressed in the choices one makes.
In the long run,
we shape our lives,
and we shape ourselves.
The process never ends until we die.
And the choices we make
are ultimately our own responsibility”

July 1, 2016
pt of the day

“The death of a dream
is the day that you stop believing in the work it takes to get there.”
“If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams,
and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined,
he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
He will put some things behind,
will pass an invisible boundary;
new, universal,
and more liberal laws will begin to establish themselves around and within him;
or the old laws be expanded,
and interpreted in his favor in a more liberal sense,
and he will live with the license of a higher order of beings.”
“Happiness is the byproduct of fulfilled dreams.”

July 2nd, 2016
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.”

July 3rd, 2016 PT OF THE DAY

Welcome To The Grind

Rise and shine.

6 AM and your hand can't make it to the alarm clock

before the voices in your head start telling you that it's too early,

too dark, and too cold to get out of a bed.

Aching muscles lie still in rebellion,

pretending not to hear your brain commanding them to move

A legion of voices are shouting their unanimous permission for you to hit the snooze button

and go back to dreamland,

but you didn't ask their opinion.

The voice you've chosen to listen to is one of defiance.

A voice that's says there was a reason you set that alarm in the first place.

So sit up,

put your feet on the floor,

and don't look back because we've got work to do.

Welcome to The Grind.

For what is each day but a series of conflicts between the right way and the easy way?

10,000 streams fan out like a river delta before you,

Each one promising the path of least resistance.

Thing is, you're headed upstream And when you make that choice,

when you decide to turn your back on what's comfortable

and what's safe and what some would call "common sense",

well that's day 1.

From there it only gets tougher.

So just make sure this is something you want.

Because the easy way out will always be there,

ready to wash you away,

all you have to do is pick up your feet.

But you aren't going to are you?

With each step comes the decision to take another

You're on your way now

But this is no time to dwell on how far you've come.

You're in a fight against an opponent you can't see

Oh but you can feel him on your heels can't you?

Feel him breathing down your neck

You know what that is?

That's you...

Your fears, your doubts and insecurities

all lined up like a firing squad ready to shoot you out of the sky,

but don't lose heart

While they aren't easily defeated,

they are far from invincible.

Remember this is The Grind,

The Battle Royale between you and your mind, your body

and the devil on your shoulder

who's telling you that this is just a game,

this is just a waste of time,

your opponents are stronger than you.

Drown out the voice of uncertainty with the sound of your own heartbeat

Burn away your self doubt

with the fire that's beneath you

Remember what you're fighting for

And never forget that momentum is a cruel mistress.

She can turn on a dime with the smallest mistake.

She is ever searching for that weak place in your armor,

That one tiny thing you forgot to prepare for.

So as long as the devil is hiding the details,

the question remains,"is that all you got?",

"are you sure?"

And when the answer is "yes".

That you've done all you can to prepare yourself for battle

THEN it's time to go forth and boldly face your enemy,

the enemy within.

Only now you must take that fight into the open,

into hostile territory

You're a lion in a field of lions

all hunting the same elusive prey

with a desperate starvation that says

VICTORY is the only thing that can keep you alive.

So believe that voice that says "you CAN run a little faster"

and that "you CAN throw a little harder"

and that "you CAN dive a little deeper"

and that, for you, the laws of physics are merely a suggestion.

Luck is the last dying wish of those who wanna believe that winning can happen by accident,



sweat on the other hand

is for those who know it's a choice,

so decide now because destiny waits for no man.

And when your time comes

and a thousand different voices are trying to tell you you're not ready for it,

listen instead for that lone voice in decent

the one that says you are ready,

you are prepared,

it's all up to you now.

July 4, 2016
pt of the day

Until one is committed,
there is hesitancy,
the chance to draw back,
always ineffectiveness.
The moment one definitely commits oneself,
then Providence moves too.
All sorts of things occur
to help one that would never otherwise have occurred.
A whole stream of events issues from the decision,
raising in one's favor all manner of unforeseen incidents
and meetings and material assistance,
which no man could have dreamed would have come his way.

July 5, 2016
pt of the day


“It's not hard to decide what you want your life to be about.
What's hard
is figuring out what you're willing to give up
in order to do the things you really care about.”