Q & A with Dawn Alison

Mar 9, 2014
pt of the day

“Until one is committed,
there is hesitancy,
the chance to draw back,
always ineffectiveness.
Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation) there is one elementary truth,
the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans:
That 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.”

JUST DO IT

Mar 10, 2014
pt of the day

Smooth seas do not make skilful sailors.

Failing doesn't make you a failure.
Giving up, accepting your failure,
refusing to try again does!

TEAM Fit Body's BIKINI BEAUTY Kezzi Loewen
Photocredit: Vicky Lee

Oh my goodness...I probably should not have opened that picture while at work. Ahem...but...lookin' good!

March 11, 2014
pt of the day

"Training is the opposite of hoping."

Great souls have wills;
feeble ones have only wishes.

Being defeated is often a temporary condition.
Giving up is what makes it permanent.

The only way to prove that you're a good sport is to lose.

Fall down seven times,
get up eight.
JUST DO IT....

March 12th, 2014
pt of the day

As we grow up,
we learn that even the one person that wasn't supposed to ever let us down,
probably will.
You'll have your heart broken
and you'll break others' hearts.
You'll fight with your best friend
or maybe even fall in love with them,
and you'll cry because time is flying by.
So take too many pictures,
laugh too much,
forgive freely,
and love like you've never been hurt.
Life comes with no guarantees,
no time outs,
no second chances.
you just have to live life to the fullest,
tell someone what they mean to you
and tell someone off,
speak out,
dance in the pouring rain,
hold someone's hand,
comfort a friend,
fall asleep watching the sun come up,
stay up late,
be a flirt,
and smile until your face hurts.
Don't be afraid to take chances
or fall in love
and most of all,
live in the moment
because every second you spend angry or upset
is a second of happiness you can never get back

JUST DO IT
Dawn
xox

PIC is ME (Dawn Alison)
live, love, life, laugh....

March 12, 2014
pt of the day

“People of mediocre ability sometimes
achieve outstanding success because
they don’t know when to quit.
Most men succeed because they are determined to.”

“What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight
it’s the size of the fight in the dog.”

PIC: TEAM Fit Body's FEMALE BODYBUILDER
Amy "The PRODIGY" Young

March 15, 2014
pt of the day

"Persistence is the ability to maintain actions regardless of your feelings.
You press on even when you feel like quitting.
When you work on any big goal your motivation will wax and wane
like the waves hitting the shore.
Sometimes you’ll feel motivated,
sometimes you won’t.
But it’s not your motivation that creates results
it’s your action.

JUST DO IT
Dawn

Mar 15, 2014
pt of the day

One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals.

See the things you want as already yours.
Think of them as yours, as belonging to you,
as already in your possession.

SEE IT, BELIEVE IT, JUST DO IT, BE IT !

March 16, 2014
pt of the day


“There's a difference between interest and commitment.
When you're interested in doing something,
you do it only when circumstance permit.
When you're committed to something,
you accept no excuses,
only results.”

PIC: TEAM Fit Body's Ashlee Kelly
is an excellent example of COMMITTMENT & DEDICATION

March 20, 2014
pt of the day

To accomplish great things we must not only act,
but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.

just do it
Dawn

March 21, 2014
pt of the day

You learn you can do your best even when it's hard,
even when you're tired and maybe hurting a little bit.
It feels good to show some courage.

Let perseverance be your engine and hope your fuel.

PIC: TEAM Fit Body's AMAZING Christine Wallace

Mar 22, 2014
pt of the day

Life's problems wouldn't be called "hurdles"
if there wasn't a way to get over them.

Though no one can go back and make a brand new start,
anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.

Mar 23, 2014
pt of the day

"It is only through work and strife
that either nation or individual moves on to greatness.
The great man is always the man of mighty effort,
and usually the man whom grinding need has trained to mighty effort."

PIC: TEAM Fit Body's Marianne Ly

Mar 24, 2014
pt of the day

Stubbornly persist,
and you will find that the limits of your stubbornness
go well beyond the stubbornness of your limits.

He conquers who endures.

Mar 26th, 2014

“Goals determine what you’re going to be.”

“Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.”

“Until one is committed,
there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back,
always ineffectiveness.
Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation) there is one elementary truth,
the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans:
That 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.”

PIC: TEAM Fit Body Backstage at the KK 2014 show

Mar 27, 2014
pt of the day

The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

Nothing will ever be attempted if
all possible objections must first be overcome.

JUST DO IT...

Mar 28, 2014
pt of the day

.” Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones,
you'll start having positive results.

“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.
The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.”

“We are responsible for what we are,
and whatever we wish ourselves to be,
we have the power to make ourselves.”

Mar 29, 2014
pt of the day

Attitudes are contagious.
Are yours worth catching?

The only disability in life is a bad attitude.

The soul does not absorb negativity by accident,
always by choice.

The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it.
Give goodness to the day
and before you know it,
the day will be giving goodness to you.

Mar 30, 2014
pt of the day

“There's a difference between interest and commitment.
When you're interested in doing something,
you do it only when circumstance permit.
When you're committed to something,
you accept no excuses, only results.”

March 31, 2014
pt of the day

There's a gift of quiet blessing only friendship can impart,
for a friend shares life with gentle hands,
kind words
and a caring heart.

Cherish your life,
Cherish your health,
Cherish your family,
Cherish your friends.
For these are the things that money can't buy
and will define your TRUE WEALTH
.
PIC: TEAM Fit Body at Posing Practice Yesterday

April 1st, 2014
pt of the day

The height of your accomplishments
will equal the depth of your convictions.

A dream doesn't become reality through magic;
it takes sweat, determination and hard work.

All men dream, but not equally.
Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds,
wake in the day to find that it was vanity:
but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men,
for they may act on their dreams with open eyes,
to make them possible.

April 2nd, 2014
pt of the day

“Learning is a gift.
Even when pain is your teacher.”

“With everything that has happened to you,
you can either feel sorry for yourself
or treat what has happened as a gift.

Everything is either an opportunity to grow
or an obstacle to keep you from growing.
You get to choose.”

April 3, 2014
pt of the day

The greatest oak was once
a little nut who held its ground.

Perseverance is the hard work you do
after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.

He conquers who endures.

March 4, 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!"

"Pay as little attention to discouragement as possible.
Plough ahead as a steamer does,
rough or smooth - rain or shine.
To carry your cargo and make your port is the point. "

April 5, 2014
pt of the day

Ability is what you're capable of doing.
Motivation determines what you do.
Attitude determines how well you do it.

Determine what specific goal you want to achieve.
Then dedicate yourself to its attainment with unswerving singleness of purpose,
the trenchant zeal of a crusader.

PIC: TEAM Fit Body's BIKINI CHAMP & BEAUTY Amethyst Lowe

April 6, 2014
pt of the day

“The most important key to achieving great success is
to decide upon your goal and launch,
get started, take action, move.”

“When obstacles arise,
you change your direction to reach your goal,
you do not change your decision to get there.”

April 7, 2014
pt of the day

Human beings can alter their lives
by altering their attitudes of mind.

Forgiveness does not change the past,
but it does enlarge the future.

April 8, 2014
pt of the day

Ambition is the path to success.
Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.

The height of your accomplishments
will equal the depth of your convictions.

PIC is ME ( Dawn Alison (bodybuilder & coach) at 2010 Canadian Nationals

April 9, 2014
pt of the day


“Why compare yourself with others? No one in the entire world can do a better job of being you than you.” ~Unknown

We all do it or have done it at some point in our lives: We compare ourselves to others and gauge where we are based on what we observe them to be doing.

If this was simply an observation, that would be one thing. But in comparing ourselves to others, we often end up judging ourselves. There’s no one worse to judge!

If you have ever noticed, it doesn’t matter how many people are on your side, cheering you on. If you can’t get on your own side, you never get past “go.”

The thing about comparison is that there is never a win. How often do we compare ourselves with someone less fortunate than us and consider ourselves blessed? More often, we compare ourselves with someone who we perceive as being, having, or doing more.

And this just leaves us coming up short.

But our minds do want to quantify. Our minds want to rank and file and organize information. Our mind wants to know where we fit into the scheme of things. So we need to give it something to do.

So, instead of training it to stop comparing altogether, why not simply redirect the comparison to a past and a present self and keep the comparison within?

We are always becoming more. Who you are today is a result of the decisions you made yesterday. We are always in a state of creation. We decide and then we decide again, and the direction is always toward expansion. It is our human nature to expand.

So, when you catch yourself comparing yourself to another, stop for a moment and re-direct the thought. Instead of submitting to the temptation to compare yourself to someone else, ask yourself a few questions instead.

What are you doing today that you couldn’t have done five, three, or even one year ago? How have you stepped out in the last year that you might have found inconceivable before?

What new decisions have you made or what new actions have you taken that have resulted in you moving in a new direction in your life?

What are your wins this year, compared to last year at this time? How has your life improved? How haveyou improved? What have you done recently that you never thought you could do?

What negative behavior have you stopped engaging in, that you never thought you could quit? What positive behavior have you been engaging in that up until now, you have resisted?

How are you doing more of what you said you were going to do and shown up more consistently for your own success?

In other words, how have you continued to become a new and improved version of yourself?

That’s the stuff that counts. Comparing ourselves with someone else is an inaccurate and irrelevant measuring stick.

Think about the faulty logic. Take, for example, an introvert who feels energized after periods of solitude. What does she get by comparing herself to a gregarious, outgoing personality who gets bored by an hour alone with herself?

What kind of illogical conclusions can she come to by this comparison?

Take any one of our perpetual comparisons and question the logic. Most are completely irrational in their reasoning.

We all came in different. We all came in with certain intentions that through life experience, we have continued to hone. In fact, the only masterful creation we have to work with is ourselves.

So, why defame it?

Michelangelo said, “Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.”

How well we do this is our measurement.

It doesn’t matter what anyone else is doing with their block of stone. The statue that they are liberating is one of their own intentions. But how well we are doing with our own block of stone is our business.

And we must tend to it with honor, care, compassion, and praise.

Because when we have allowed for more expression this year than we have in the last, and more importantly we recognize it, than we can stand taller as a result of the comparison instead of diminished by it.

April 10, 2014
pt of the day

The future depends on what we do in the present.

You are the residual result of all your past thoughts & actions....

YOU CREATE YOU...

April 11, 2014
pt of the day

The victory of success is half won when
one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them.
Even the most tedious chore will become endurable
as you parade through each day convinced that every task,
no matter how menial or boring,
brings you closer to fulfilling your dreams...

“You are never given a dream
without also being given the power to make it true.”

PIC is ME (Dawn Alison (bodybuilder & coach) in 2008

April 12, 2014
pt of the day

Gold medals aren't really made of gold.
They're made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts.

I've always found that anything worth achieving
will always have obstacles in the way
and you've got to have that drive and determination to overcome those obstacles
on route to whatever it is that you want to accomplish.

An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything
and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.

PIC: TEAM Fit Body's Alison Fenton BODYBUILDING CHAMPION
(Photocredit: Vicky Lee)

APRIL 13, 2014
pt of the day


“Successful people aren't born that way.
They become successful by establishing the habit of doing things
unsuccessful people don't like to do.
The successful people don't always like these things themselves;
they just get on and do them.”

“Try and fail, but don't fail to try.”

“Doing the best at this moment
puts you in the best place for the next moment.”

PIC is TEAM Fit Body's Sarah Bailey rocking the stage

April 14, 2014
pt of the day

“Guts are a combination of confidence, courage, conviction,
strength of character, stick-to-itiveness,
pugnaciousness, backbone,
and intestinal fortitude.
They are mandatory for anyone who wants to
LIVE A FULL & FULLFILLING LIFE...."

PIC is TEAM Fit Body's AMAZING Girl with GUTS: Sherine

April 15, 2014
pt of the day

“The best preparation for tomorrow
is doing your best today.”

“Little by little one walks far”

To be nobody but yourself
in a world that's doing its best to make you somebody else,
is to fight the hardest battle you are ever going to fight.
Never stop fighting.”

PIC: TEAM Fit Body's BEAUTIFUL Kezzi Loewen

April 16, 2014
pt of the day


The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am.
Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on
what they should have or would have done, or what they can't do.

The world of achievement has always belonged to the optimist.

PIC is ME (Dawn Alison) 2009

April 17, 2014
pt of the day

“The true measure of success is
how many times you can bounce back from failure.”

Courage is the most important of all the virtues,
because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently.
You can practice any virtue erratically,
but nothing consistently without courage.

Nothing will work unless you do.

April 18, 2014
pt of the day

“Our subconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes
and cannot tell the difference between reality
and an imagined thought or image.
What we continually think about eventually will manifest in our lives.”

“You are a creator;
you create with your every thought.
You often create by default,
for you are getting what you are giving your attention to wanted or unwanted
but you know by how it feels if what you are getting (creating)
is what you are wanting
or if it is not what you are wanting.
(Where is your attention focused?)”

April 19, 2014
pt of the day

Your reality is what you see in the mirror which is of your own creation.

So if you aren’t happy with what you see,
you need to figure out what YOU are doing wrong.
What are you attracting into your life and why?
Try looking at the things that are good.
How did you attract them?
What feelings do the good things in your life give you?

Sit in a quiet place and ask yourself these questions
and listen to the answer.
Remember happiness is not the real feeling it is only the end result.
Another words you are happy because you feel …safe, content, healthy.
Those are the types of feelings you are looking for.
Many times if we are not attracting what we want
we are still achieving the feeling we are looking for.
If you are overweight/overfat,
you may have security issues or food is giving you a loving pleasure.
You have to find other more productive ways to get those same feelings
and you will achieve the things you want.

April 20, 2014
pt of the day

Happiness is an attitude.
We either make ourselves miserable,
or happy and strong.
The amount of work is the same.

Change your thoughts
and you change your world.