Q & A with Dawn Alison

Sept 15, 2014
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“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
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“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
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“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.”

Sept 30, 2014
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There’s only one thing that can guarantee our failure,
and that’s if we quit.
Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
Winners are not those who never fail,
but those who never quit.
People of mediocre ability
sometimes achieve outstanding success
because they don’t know when to quit.
Most men succeed because they are determined to.

I'VE SEEN IT MANY MANY TIMES...
that someone had an unbelievable genetics, and body
but lacked the head, heart & guts to make it to the stage,
and then there was another with total inferior genetics,
but had a GREAT HEART, DETERMINED & STRONG MIND,
and THE GUTS TO STEP ON THAT STAGE...
and it was the 2nd person that reaped the GLORY,
whether they won the title, or trophy or not
they were the one who was successful
purely because they didn't give up and overcame the obstacles,
made the sacrifices
and put themselves out there to finish the race & reach their goal...
THIS IS A CHAMPION
in every sense of the word !

Oct 1, 2014
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"Desire is the key to motivation,
but it's determination and commitment
to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal
a commitment to excellence
that will enable you to attain the success you seek."

"The difference between the impossible and the possible
lies in a man's determination."

Oct 2, 2014
pt of the day

Perseverance is the hard work you do after
you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.
Permanence, perseverance and persistence
in spite of all obstacles, discouragements, and impossibilities:
It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.
HEAD DOWN, TEETH CLENCHED & JUST DO IT....
Perseverance - a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.

PIC: 1980 & 1982 MS.OLYMPIA Rachel McLish

Oct 3, 2014
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”Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan,
in which we must fervently believe,
and upon which we must vigorously act.
There is no other route to success.”

“Crystallize your goals.
Make a plan for achieving them and set yourself a deadline.
Then, with supreme confidence, determination
and disregard for obstacles a
nd other people’s criticisms,
carry out your plan.”

JUST DO IT

Oct 4, 2014
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People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are.
I don't believe in circumstances.
The people who get on in this world are
the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want,
and, if they can't find them, make them.

The race is not always to the swift,
but to those who keep on running.

Oct 5, 2014
pt of the day


COMPETITORS OUT THERE.... BREAKING NEWS... CONTEST PREP IS HARD
you will be tired, you will be weak, you will be hungry, you will want to quit, you will want to throw in the towel and say F' K it...
you will wonder how the hell am i gonna workout or do my cardio when i dont' have any energy...
why am i doing this to myself?
this last part of prep IS HARD,
this is what separates the winners from the losers,
and by winning i mean making it to the stage,
if you have fat on your body your body has energy to burn,
it's stored in your fat stores,
thats the way God designed us...
and how do you get lean and get it off?
YOU GOTTA PLAY THRU THE PAIN...
you gotta use YOUR GUTS & YOUR HEART,
YOU GOTTA USE YOUR MIND AND SAY I CAN, I WILL, I AM DOING IT...
you can't quit,
we are a hell of alot tougher than we give ourselves credit for...
OUR SOCIETY HAS MADE US SOFT...
we live in a comfy cozy convenience filled lifestyle...
humans were made to be tough,
look at people who survived real starvation, the Holocaust, concentration camps, Prisoners of War,
back in even in my grandparents days look at how hard day to day life was,
my grandfather was a coal miner his whole life in England, now that is hard work...
REMEMBER ABOVE ALL ELSE DOING A CONTEST IS A CHOICE,
LOOKING A CERTAIN WAY IS A CHOICE,
HOW WELL YOU DO ONSTAGE IS A CHOICE,
IT'S JUST YOU AND YOUR CONSCIENCE UP THERE...
and it's your gig...
you present what you want to present..
and if you dont' wanna do it, dont'.....
and if you are happy with being normal, or average, or where you are then that is ok too...
but if you wanna play this game be prepare it is BRUTAL..
AND IF IT WAS EASY EVERYONE WOULD LOOK LIKE A GOD OR A GODDESS....
REMEMBER IT'S YOUR CHOICE....
but also remember if you are not prepared to do it, someone else will be....
HELL YA !!!!!!!!

PICS ATTACHED ARE SOME OF TEAM Fit Body Prepping for Nov show 5 weeks out
GO TEAM !

Oct 6, 2014
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The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful
is the man who will win...
The difference between a successful person and others
is not a lack of strength,
not a lack of knowledge,
but rather a lack in will.

PIC: TEAM Fit Body at Posing Yesterday 4 wks 6 days out

BCABBA AGM (ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING)
SUNDAY NOV 9th, 2014 at 10am
in the Hyack Room at the Inn of the Quay
address: 900 Quayside Drive, in New Westminster

members a friendly reminder to get your memberships in for this year.

Non competitive memberships are $25

We look forward to seeing everyone there!

Oct 7, 2014
pt of the day

By prevailing over all obstacles and distractions,
one may unfailingly arrive at his chosen goal or destination.
Setting a goal is not the main thing.
It is deciding how you will go about achieving it
and staying with that plan.

PIC: some of TEAM Fit Body's Nov Show Crew 5 wks out

Oct 8, 2014
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The big challenge is
to become all that you have the possibility of becoming.
You cannot believe what it does to the human spirit
to maximize your human potential
and stretch yourself to the limit.

WE CAN DO SO MUCH MORE THAN WE REALIZE
GET TOUGH & SHOW ME WHAT YOU ARE MADE OF

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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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

Oct 19, 2014
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Every choice carries a consequence.
For better or worse,
each choice is the unavoidable consequence of its predecessor.
There are not exceptions.
If you can accept that a bad choice carries the seed of its own punishment,
why not accept the fact that a good choice yields desirable fruit?
I MAKE ME,
I AM A RESULT OF ALL MY CHOICES,
MY PAST THOUGHTS & ACTIONS !

Oct 21, 2014
pt of the day

Four steps to achievement:
plan purposefully,
prepare prayerfully,
proceed positively,
pursue persistently.

We are not imprisoned by circumstances,
setbacks, mistakes or staggering defeats,
we are freed by our choices.

PIC: TEAM Fit Body at Posing sunday.....


RISE & SHINE THE ULTIMATE MOTIVATIONAL CLIP
one of my favorite motivational videos WATCH THIS & BE MOVED....

SHOW ME WHAT YOU ARE MADE OF !!!!!!!!!!!!

suck it up PRINCESS, DON'T ACCEPT MEDIOCRITY
be the best you can be & FIND YOUR GREATNESS...
now GET UP & JUST DO IT

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbkZrOU1Zag

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbkZrOU1Zag

Oct 22, 2014
pt of the day

Be daring, be different, be impractical,
be anything that will assert
integrity of purpose
and imaginative vision
against the play-it-safers,
the creatures of the commonplace,
the slaves of the ordinary.

DARE TO BE DIFFERENT

PIC: TEAM Fit Body's BIKINI CHAMP Marina Wojtczak

Oct 23, 2014
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There is NO COURAGE WITHOUT FEAR....
Courage is FEELING the FEAR and doing it anyways....

PIC: some of TEAM Fit Body's Nov Show Crew

Oct 24, 2014
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Every moment YOU make CHOICES...
these choices either take you: CLOSE TO
or FURTHER FROM YOUR GOAL....

Master your choices,
or become the slave of their consequences.

You can always do what you want to do.
This is true with every act.
You may say that you had to do something,
or that you were forced to,
but actually,
whatever you do, you do by choice.

Only you have the power to choose for yourself.
Your life is the sum result of all the choices you make,
both consciously and unconsciously.
If you can control the process of choosing,
you can take control of all aspects of your life.
You can find the freedom that comes from being in charge of yourself.

PIC: some of TEAM Fit Body's Nov Show Crew

Oct 25, 2014
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the Fit Body theory - what I teach:
"THE ONLY COMPETITION YOU HAVE IS YOU VS YOU"
“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.”

When it comes to Physique competition
or even a better term for it PHYSIQUE ART...
it is a never-ending, on-going process for the rest of your life,
it's not a competition date...
but a human body being built on a moment-to-moment basis
by the choices you make of what you eat and what you do....

Oct 26, 2014
pt of the day

THIS MAKES ME THINK OF HOW I FEEL WITH CLIENTS DOING SHOWS SOMETIMES....
"Come to the edge," He said.
They said, "We are afraid."
"Come to the edge," He said.
They came. He pushed them...and they flew."
a great Analogy of this is when...
my son Storm was 5 yrs old one Spring Break we went to the Hill Health Ranch in 108 mile Ranch.
They have a great snow tubing run there.
The 1st time down the hill Storm and I went in the same tube
and a worker came running and yelled "Only 1 person in a tube at once"
So I stood at the top of the hill with the tether rope of Storms tube in my hands,
him in the tube yelling " No NO I don't want to"
My boyfriend at the time was there with me,
and in a blink of an eye I used my foot to push his tube over the edge and down he went SCREAMING, as I watched,
my boyfriend say to me "You Bitch!" ...
when Storm got down to the bottom I don't think the tube even stopped moving,
he jumped out of it, grabbed the tether and RAN to the tow rope to bring him back up the hill,
and all day for hours and hours he repeated this process. HE LOVED IT !
The moral of this story is we are our own worst enemy.
We alot of the time let fear immobilize us.
And I know this feeling only to well.
For many many years I had terrible stage fright,
not that I dont' have any now.
But because I face that fear over and over and walked throught it,
when you get to the other side words cannot describe the self-worth and sense of accomplishment it brings.
Don't let fear stop you from experiencing LIFE TO IT'S FULLEST ! JUST DO IT....

COURAGE IS NOT THE ABSENCE OF FEAR, BUT THE MASTERY OF FEAR

PIC: my son Storm mastering the tubing fear and LOVING IT

Oct 27, 2014
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If you do what you’ve always done,
you’ll get what you’ve always got.

If you’re going to be thinking anything,
you might as well think big.

Pearls don’t lie on the seashore.
If you want one, you must dive for it.

Do the one thing you think you cannot do.
Fail at it.
Try again.
Do better the second time.

The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire.
This is your moment.
Own it.

Life is inherently risky.
There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs,
and that is the risk of doing nothing.

JUST DO IT !
PIC: some of TEAM Fit Body's Nov show Crew at Posing Yesterday
SO PROUD OF YOU ALL,
can hardly wait to see you ROCK IT UP THERE !

GREAT VIDEO:
Stop Whining, Start Grinding - Motivational Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxrSr2vV68g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxrSr2vV68g

Oct 28, 2014
pt of the day

Amongst the qualities a HERO should have,

I would include determination, loyalty, courage, perseverance,

patience, focus, intrepidity and selflessness.

Beauty is not in the face;
beauty is a light in the heart.

Oct 29, 2014
pt of the day

THIS IS GREAT:
“One of the most common causes of failure is
the habit of quitting when one is overtaken by temporary defeat.”

“It doesn’t matter if you try and try and try again, and fail.
It does matter if you try and fail, and fail to try again.”

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

BOOOOOOOOOOOYAAAAAAAAHHHHH
now go out there and CREATE YOU A SUCCESSFUL DAY !