Q & A with Dawn Alison

Jan 21, 2015
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.
If you are not willing to risk the unusual,
you will have to settle for the ordinary.
It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance.
It's the dream afraid of waking that never takes the chance.
It's the one who won't be taken, who cannot seem to give,
and the soul afraid of dyin' that never learns to live.

PIC: is me Dawn Alison) photocredit: Paul Patrick Hammill

Jan 22, 2015
pt of the day

Courage is the first of human qualities because
it is the quality which guarantees the others.
I do not ask to walk smooth paths nor bear an easy load.
I pray for strength and fortitude to climb the rock strewn road.
Give me such courage and I can scale the hardest peaks alone,
And transform every stumbling block into a stepping stone.

Jan 23, 2015
pt of the day

Self-respect is the root of discipline.
The sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to one's self.
There are always two choices. Two paths to take
. One is easy. And its only reward is that it's easy.
You've got to get up every morning with determination
if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction.

Jan 24, 2015
pt of the day

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?

Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself:
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.

Jan 25, 2015
pt of the day

The remarkable thing we have is a choice every day
regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day.
We cannot change our past...
We cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way.
We cannot change the inevitable.
The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have,
and that is our attitude

Jan 26, 2015
pt of the day

When you learn to embrace your self with a sense of appreciation and affection,
you begin to glimpse the goodness and light that is in you
and gradually you will realize that you are worthy of respect from yourself.
When you recognize your limits,
but still embrace your life with affection and graciousness,
the sense of inner dignity begins to grow.
You become freer
and less dependent on the affirmation of outer voices
and less troubled by the negativity of others.

PIC: TEAM Fit Body's SUNDAY POSING PRACTICE
- always such fun

Jan 27, 2015
pt of the day

We cannot choose how many years we will live,
but we can choose how much life those years will have.
We cannot control the beauty of our face,
but we can control the expression on it.
We cannot control life's difficult moments but we can choose to make life less difficult.
We cannot control the negative atmosphere of the world,
but we can control the atmosphere of our minds.
Too often we try to choose and control things we cannot.
Too seldom we choose to control what we can …
our attitude.

PIC: TEAM Fit Body at Fabric Selection for suits on Saturday

Jan 26 ,2015
pt of the day

No one else "makes us angry."
We make ourselves angry when
we surrender control of our attitude.
What someone else may have done is irrelevant.
We choose, not they.
They merely put our attitude to a test.
We cannot choose how many years we will live,
but we can choose how much life those years will have.
We cannot control the beauty of our face,
but we can control the expression on it.
We cannot control life's difficult moments
but we can choose to make life less difficult.
We cannot control the negative atmosphere of the world,
but we can control the atmosphere of our minds.
Too often we try to choose and control things we cannot.
Too seldom we choose to control what we can …
our attitude.
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain
but it takes character and self control
to be understanding and forgiving.

Jan 29, 2015
pt of the day

Confronting our feelings
and giving them appropriate expression
always takes strength, not weakness.
It takes strength to acknowledge our anger,
and sometimes more strength yet to curb the aggressive urges anger may bring
and to channel them into nonviolent outlets.
It takes strength to face our sadness
and to grieve and to let our grief
and our anger flow in tears when they need to.
It takes strength to talk about our feelings
and to reach out for help
and comfort when we need it.

PIC is me Dawn Alison
photocredit: Paul Patrick Hammill

Feb 4, 2015
pt of the day

Always bear in mind
that your own resolution to success
is more important than any other one thing.
Being challenged in life is inevitable,
being defeated is optional.
Everything can be taken from a man
but the last of human freedoms,
the right to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances
the right to choose one's own way.
I am bigger than anything that can happen to me.
All these things, sorrow, misfortune, and suffering,
are outside my door.
I am in the house and I have the key.

PIC: is me Dawn Alison​.
Photocredit Paul Patrick Hammill​

sorry for being MIA
my computor went down
and had to get a new one
it's been a huge learning curve with new operating system
back in the saddle now

Feb 25, 2015
pt of the day

Our greatest glory is not in never failing,
but in rising up every time we fail.
Life is not about how fast you run or how high you climb
but how well you bounce.

PIC: is me Dawn Alison​ 2008,
Photocredit: Paul Patrick Hammill​

Feb 26, 2015
pt o the day

In the midst of movement and chaos,
keep stillness inside of you.
The key to happiness is inner peace.
The greatest obstacles to inner peace are disturbing emotions
such as anger, attachment, fear and suspicion,
while love and compassion and a sense of universal responsibility are
the sources of peace and happiness.

PIC: TEAM Fit Body's Brandon Best,
original photo by: Vicky Lee, PhotoArt by Uriel Art

Feb 29, 2015
pt of the day


Luck is when OPPORTUNITY meets PREPAREDNESS

pic is me Dawn Alison​ CANADIAN NATIONALS 2013

March 1, 2015
pt of the day

A NEW MONTH
A NEW CHANCE FOR A NEW ATTITUDE
spring is on it’s way
cast off the darkness & the cold
embrace the change of the season

Never allow anyone to rain on your parade
and thus cast a pall of gloom and defeat on the entire day.
Remember that no talent, no self-denial, no brains, no character,
are required to set up in the fault-finding business.
Nothing external can have any power over you unless you permit it.
Your time is too precious to be sacrificed in wasted days combating the menial forces of hate, jealously, and envy.
Guard your fragile life carefully.
Only God can shape a flower,
but any foolish child can pull it to pieces.

March 2, 2015
pt of the day

Keep moving in the direction of your dreams.
No matter how slows it may seems, stay focus,
you will get to the finish line.”
Finishing races is important,
but racing is more important.
Success is not final, failure is not fatal:
it is the courage to continue that counts.
A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events and outcomes.
It is a catalyst and it sparks extraordinary results.

Mar 3, 2015 pt of the day

“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 SUNDAY POSING PRACTICE
- I'M BLESSED WITH SUCH AN AMAZING GROUP OF PEOPLE

March 4, 2015
pt of the day

Watch your thoughts; they become words.
Watch your words; they become actions.
Watch your actions; they become habits.
Watch your habits; they become character.
Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.
Life is a challenge, meet it !
It is the character of a brave and resolute man
not to be ruffled by adversity and not to desert his post.
MEET LIFE HEAD ON BOOYAH !!

Mar 5, 2015
pt of the day

“Never consider the possibility of failure;
as long as you persist,
you will be successful.
“I am not judged by the number of times I fail,
but by the number of times I succeed.

Mar 6, 2015
pt of the day

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.
Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men,
and men are great only if they are determined to be so.
Failure will never overtake me
if my determination to succeed is strong enough

March 7, 2015
pt of the day

I expect to pass through this world but once;
any good thing therefore that I can do,
or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature,
let me do it now;
let me not defer or neglect it,
for I shall not pass this way again.
No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

PIC: is TEAM Fit Body’s FRIDAY POSING PRACTICE

March 9, 2015
pt of the day

Our greatest weaknes
s lies in giving up.
At the end of the day,
life is hard for all of us (though to varying degrees),
and there will be many obstacles to what we want from life.
You might look at successful people and from the outside – it looks easy.
You might think you’re putting in as much effort as anyone else.
But the truth is that as humans,
we often overestimate our own determination
and underestimate the determination of those around us.
“Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.”

Mar 10, 2015
pt of the day

"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow."
"Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value."
"The only mistake in life is the lesson not learned."
"Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master.
For this reason mastery demands all of a person."

PIC: is me Dawn Alison​.... photocredit: Paul Patrick Hammill​

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March 11, 2015
pt of the day


“A trophy carries dust. Memories last forever.”
“If at first you don’t succeed, you are running about average.”
“Persistence can change failure into extraordinary achievement.”
“The principle is competing against yourself
. It’s about self-improvement,
about being better than you were the day before.”
As long as you gave it your all,
did the best you could with what you have,
under the circumstances you are under,
that is all you can do....
be happy and content in knowing that....
this is winning !

Mar 12, 2015
pt of the day

Sometimes feelings of defeat, failure and anxiety will sneak up on you.
When they do,
try to feed your courage instead of fuel your fear.
Overcome the resistance with unrelenting persistence.
Parts of the journey will be hellish and hard,
but the only thing that can make it worse is quitting.
Keep going.
Make the struggle worth it by persisting.
Its not how many times you get knocked down,
but how many times you get back up......
Champions keep playing until they get it right

March 13, 2015
pt of the day

There comes a time in your life,
when you walk away from all the drama
and people who create it.
You surround yourself with people who make you laugh.
Forget the bad, and focus on the good.
Love the people who treat you right,
pray for the ones who don’t
. Life is too short to be anything but happy.
Falling down is a part of life,
getting back up is living.

Good luck to all TEAM Fit Body athletes so proud of you all.

Have fun today.

COURAGE: is being scared to death but doing it anyway.




BCABBA PRESIDENT Dawn Alison's MESSAGE TO ALL the Muscle Classic Athletes today competing...
On Behalf of the BCABBA we'd like to welcome you to the 2015 Muscle Classic Championships.
I commend you and I have the utmost respect of anyone who can make all the way to the stage.
As it's one of the toughest journeys anyone will undergo.
Many say they are going to do a show, not many make it.
It takes a huge amount of dedication, committment, sacrifice, it's physically, mentally, emotionally & financially grueling.
Really it cannot be described, and no one can understand unless they themselves have been through it.
Life has a way of throwing curveballs at you when you are going on this journey.
you can either choose to succumb to these obstacles
or you can dust yourself off when life knocks you down and get up and GO AGAIN,
To all the competitors making it to this show, shows me what you are made of.
You are all CHAMPIONS in my eyes,
CONGRATS TO YOU ALL !
Sincerely, Dawn Alison BCABBA PRESIDENT

TEAM Fit Body's Muscle Classic 2015 Results

Tamara Firlott – Womens Bodybuilding Champ
Judy Gall – Womens Physique 3rd Place Champ
Tara Gustafson – Figure A 5th Place Champ
Alec Abbott – Mens Physique C 3rd Place Champ
Matt Law – Mens Physique C – competitor
Kim Murray – Grand Masters Bikini – 4th Place Champ (Posing Client)
Carol Novotnik - Grand Masters Bikini – 5th Place Champ
Nicole G Leirer – Bikini A – competitor
Harj Hadani – Bikini B – 5th Place Champ
Cat Wheatley – Bikini B – competitor
Jenn Gornenski - Bikini B – competitor
Tasha Vickard – Bikini C – competitor
Vivian Wang – Bikini C – competitor
Michelle Fairney – Bikini D 5th Place Champ

BIG CONGRATS TO EVERYONE SO PROUD OF YOU ALL

BCABBA MUSCLE CLASSIC Final OFFICIAL ALL Results
March 14, 2015

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BODYBUILDING
Junior Men BB

Competitor # Membership # First Name Last Name Final Placing
2 15171 Lee Hannen 1
3 15097 Afshin Zare 2
5 15019 Vlad Raducu 3
4 15264 Matus Kucharek 4
6 15006 Jeff Lee 5

Master Men BB

Competitor # Membership # First Name Last Name Final Placing
13 Ron Stone 1
11 Ivan Czach 3
12 Jake Palmberg 2

GrandMaster Men BB

Competitor # Membership # First Name Last Name Final Placing
8 15334 Ted Komick 1
9 15161 Wendell Small 2
10 15134 David Vella 3
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Open Women BODYBUILDING

Competitor # Membership # First Name Last Name Final Placing
40 15309 Tamara Firlotte 1
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Lightweight Men BB

Competitor # Membership # First Name Last Name Final Placing
16 15217 Trung Danh 1
17 15330 Behzad Radbooei 2
15 15294 Ty Seo 3
18 15365 Ivan Czach 4


Middleweight Men BB

Competitor # Membership # First Name Last Name Final Placing
19 15295 Daniel Gazzola 1
23 15297 David Malubag 2
22 15019 Vlad Raducu 3
20 15203 Brad Willson 4
21 15302 Atilla Akdogan 5

Light Heavyweight Men BB

Competitor # Membership # First Name Last Name Final Placing
27 15319 Burhan Pourmokhtari 1
28 15342 Tyler Dare 2
25 15065 Ryan Ferguson 3
24 15346 Tim Kolton 4
26 15372 Jason Zaw 5
29 15035 Kevin Dufault 6

Heavyweight Men BB

Competitor # Membership # First Name Last Name Final Placing
35 15078 Robert Thornton 1
36 15171 Lee Hannen 2
37 15340 Andy Alexiou 3
34 15292 Steve Ridgeley 4
32 15205 Anthony Mattioda 5
33 15298 Vladimir Klubert 6

Best Poser Men’s: Robert Thornton
Men’s Overall: Robert Thornton
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Masters Women Physique

Competitor # Membership # First Name Last Name Final Placing
41 15054 Bianca Schiavone 1
42 15325 Christina Kam 2

Women Physique

Competitor # Membership # First Name Last Name Final Placing
46 15064 Elyssa Starchuk 1
44 15061 Patty Nixon 2
47 15259 Judy Gail 3
45 15013 Robyn Graham 4

Best Poser Women’s: Elyssa Starchuk
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GrandMaster Figure

Competitor # Membership # First Name Last Name Final Placing
51 15051 Yvette Bradley 1
53 15027 Annette Willson 2
49 15240 Angela Seckler 3
52 15216 Joanne Dragani 4
50 15154 Laura lee Lauriente 5

Master Figure

Competitor # Membership # First Name Last Name Final Placing
54 15050 Tina Campbell 1
57 15156 Ayeshe Minouzadeh 2
59 15093 Kara Sproule 3
58 15062 Amber Wold 4
55 15381 Penny Gagnon 5
60 15066 Laurel Duffie 6
56 15254 Shera Wust 7

Figure A

Competitor # Membership # First Name Last Name Final Placing
69 15201 Natalie Coutu 1
64 15210 Abigail McKague 2
65 15153 Mary Anne MacGillivray 3
63 15238 Francesca Bolton 4
66 15112 Tara Gustafson 5
68 15105 Karighan Dumont 6
67 15286 Jessica Marcelino 7


Figure B

Competitor # Membership # First Name Last Name Final Placing
79 15073 Kelly Bentley 1
80 15052 Amber Rimes 2
75 15030 Shelbi Watton 3
81 15299 Amy Hopkins 4
77 15063 Katie Larsen 5
76 15096 Milena Canta 6
74 15025 Kristin Cerney 7
82 15313 Amber Gage 8
73 15348 Carrie Norman 9
78 15091 Chelsea Yelland 10

Overall Figure: Natalie Coutu

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Masters Men Physique

Competitor # Membership # First Name Last Name Final Placing
87 15225 Kirk Swaby 87
88 15320 Pablo Mejia 88
86 15347 Jonathan Archambault 86
85 15252 Robert Seckler 85

Men Physique A

Competitor # Membership # First Name Last Name Final Placing
91 15120 Jeffrey De Jesus 1
89 15053 Tyler De La Paz 2
93 15162 Nick Petz 3
97 15202 Sopheaktra Van 4
94 15281 Dylan Cameron 5
95 15227 Michael Lazaro 6
98 15301 Cesar Pineda 7
96 15375 Justin Hamade 8
92 15349 Ehtesham Sajid 9
90 Rick K 10
Men Physique B

Competitor # Membership # First Name Last Name Final Placing
110 15215 Leon Chung Him Lai 1
111 15328 Brennan Gademans 2
112 15245 Ryan Villeneuve 3
105 15122 David Miao 4
107 15313 George Hatzikiriakos 5
109 15369 Aaron Prevost 6
101 15018 Ramsey Pretty 7
113 15193 Trevor Stack 8
114 15305 Paul Russell 9
104 15182 Olasunkanmi Alagboro 10
100 15127 Tristan Bucchiotti 11
103 15289 Darren Ogden 12
106 15004 Ronald Hernandez-Lebron 13
116 15415 Jayson Wyner 14
102 15098 Levi de la Giroday 15
108 15350 Adrian Tay 15
115 15361 James Kellett 16

Men Physique C

Competitor # Membership # First Name Last Name Final Placing
130 15271 Jacob Taylor 1
120 15071 Luke Kim 2
125 15196 Alec Abbott 3
126 15121 Colton Hengg 4
128 15038 Nick Kozuback 5
123 15384 Kristian Josok 6
129 15011 Aaron Keller 7
121 15367 Kenny Moore 8
124 15327 John Morin 9
122 15306 Troy Nadjiwon 10
119 15103 Marc-Andre Lavoie 11
131 15072 Matt Law 12
118 15370 Julian Miller 13
127 15068 Matt Kiselbach 14

Men Physique D

Competitor # Membership # First Name Last Name Final Placing
142 15366 Nicholas Kleider 1
138 15307 Spencer Johnston 2
136 15357 Spensor Farbatuk 3
139 15321 Peter Johns 4
137 15351 Mahdi Kazempour 5
141 15088 Baron Swainson 6
135 15059 Cole Seidel 7
140 15317 Cody Curlew 8
134 15241 Derek Bains 9

Overall Men Physique: Jeffery de Jesus
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GrandMaster Bikini

Competitor # Membership # First Name Last Name Final Placing
150 15318 Loan-Anh Phillips 1
148 15003 Sandra Martin 2
151 15041 Kelora Clingwall 3
149 15069 Kimberley Murray 4
152 15113 Carol Novotnik 5
147 15269 Sandra Vrba 6


Master Bikini A

Competitor # Membership # First Name Last Name Final Placing
166 15291 Blanca Beaupré 1
156 15278 Carrie Roulette 2
154 15056 Sheila Jaeger 3
155 lara Leontowich 4
167 15362 Ariel Evans 5
153 15123 Nola Pullar 6
157 15009 Jennifer Mann 7
158 15353 Rina Kapusta 8

Master Bikini B

Competitor # Membership # First Name Last Name Final Placing
159 15175 Leah Wagner 1
162 15194 Chelan Wilkins 2
163 15034 Jaime Chorney 3
165 15268 Heidi Johnson 4
161 15107 Kimberly Adams 5
160 15033 Sue Heikkila 6
164 15049 Krystal Pearson 7


Bikini A

Competitor # Membership # First Name Last Name Final Placing
170 15037 Rashelle Gauthier 1
171 15005 Kennedy Ledgerwood 2
182 15364 Renee Cooper 3
178 15226 Chelsie Dunne 4
183 15371 Reani Sharp 5
173 15029 Christine Kinvig 6
177 15016 Marianne Cottingham 7
172 15148 May Cheng 8
175 15293 Ashley May Hill 9
176 15015 Vanessa Chung 9
169 15023 Kelsey Robinson 11
174 15332 Nicole G Leier 12
181 15208 Kelsey Cirez 13
180 15296 Charmane Terpstra 14
179 15111 Joelyn Robertson 15
168 15243 Carly Bonnyman 16

Bikini B

Competitor # Membership # First Name Last Name Final Placing
187 15356 Caitlin Botterill 1
192 15002 Kristina Matic 2
198 15279 Dana Maternick 3
219 15255 Kaelan Sockman 4
197 15304 Harj Hadani 5
196 15249 Deepika Sivia 6
193 15273 Selina Hawes 7
191 15165 Cobi Vaughn 8
190 15092 Brandi Thompson 9
189 15128 Catherine Wheatley 10
188 15028 Jill Schellekens 11
186 15026 Dana Evangelista 12
194 15008 Sydney O'Dare 13
195 15212 Jennifer Gornenski 14
199 15057 Sandeep Singh 15

Bikini C

Competitor # Membership # First Name Last Name Final Placing
203 15303 Nicole Hall 1
216 15204 Alyssa Janes 2
215 15021 Gopi (Gurpreet) Takhar 3
205 15042 Marlo Williams 4
213 15272 Cassie Faris 5
206 15218 Ashley Evancio 6
214 15032 Meagan Walter 7
212 15110 Kim Lockhart 8
204 15132 Andrea Thomas 9
202 15248 Carleigh O'Leary 10
210 15387 Sarah Rempel 11
207 15300 Amy Ma 12
211 15358 Alejandra Prada 13
217 15067 Annika Granander 14
208 15228 Tasha Vickerd 15
209 15181 Vivian Wang 16
218 15283 Alesha Beckett 16


Bikini D

Competitor # Membership # First Name Last Name Final Placing
226 15137 Laura Merkel 1
223 15158 Montana Jade Lee 2
225 15206 Melissa Olson 3
229 15345 Kristina Gabrysh 4
227 15087 Michelle Fairney 5
230 15266 Carlie Gollner 6
231 15142 Danielle Hall 7
224 15014 Kirsten Dickie 8
228 15085 Robyn Grey 9

Bikini E

Competitor # Membership # First Name Last Name Final Placing
235 15261 Teela Chapdelaine 1
237 15044 Pamela Steeper 2
245 15343 Brianna Manno 3
243 15020 Tara Allison 4
239 15250 Julia Dion 5
241 15354 Candice Woods 6
236 15262 Rebecca Gaetz 7
244 15055 Vanessa Stone 8
242 15290 Ashley Williams 9
238 15333 Stephanie Giesbrecht 10
240 15172 Elizabeth O'brien 11

Overall Bikini: Laura Merkel

Mar 16, 2015
pt of the day

When times get tough
it’s helpful and heartwarming to know that
“this too will pass”
yet, how we respond
or react to the more extreme circumstances in life,
especially in times of persistent trial and trouble,
truly defines us.
“Physical strength is measured by what we carry.
Inner strength is measured by what we can bear”

Mar 17, 2015
pt of the day

You can achieve almost any goal you set for yourself
as long as you have the discipline
to pay the price
to do what you need to do
and to never give up.
You can make excuses
or you can make progress.
You choose

Mar 18, 2015
pt of the day

The secret of health for both mind and body
is not to mourn for the past,
not to worry about the future,
not to anticipate the future,
but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.

Be where you are;
otherwise you will miss your life.

- Buddha..

Mar 21, 2015
pt of the day


You can't escape karma ...
It is what it is.
It doesn't judge,
it's neither good nor bad like most people think.
It's the result of all the actions, positive and negative
a constant balancing act of events
cause and effect--tit for tat--reaping and sowing--what goes around comes around ...
However you phrase it,
it's the same in the end.

March 22,2015
pt of the day

Letting go is can be a painful yet necessary part of life.
And letting go can also result in feeling free.
Letting go helps us to to live in a more peaceful state of mind and helps restore our balance.
It allows others to be responsible for themselves
and for us to take our hands off situations that do not belong to us.
This frees us from unnecessary stress.
Let go of your attachment to being right,
and suddenly your mind is more open.
The mental and physical space we create by
letting go of things that belong in our past gives us…
the option to fill the space with something new.
AMEN !

Mar 23, 2015
pt of the day


“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.”
“Learning is a gift.
Even when pain is your teacher.”
“No matter what the situation, remind yourself “
I have a choice.”
“You must make a decision that you are going to move on.
It wont happen automatically.
You will have to rise up and say,
‘I don’t care how hard this is,
I don’t care how disappointed I am,
I’m not going to let this get the best of me.
I’m moving on with my life.”

Mar 24, 2015
pt of the day


Success is the result of
perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.
No student ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him/her:
it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required,
that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction.

PIC: TEAM Fit Body's INCOMPARABLE Christine Wallace​

Mar 25, 2015
pt of the day

"I am thankful for friends who stand by me through the ups and downs of life.
My truest friends are those who know everything about me,
but love me just the same.
The words that escape a friend's mouth are
"I'll be there when you say you need me"
but the words that are unheard from a true friend's heart are
"I'll be there... whether you say you need me or not
LOYALTY

March 25, 2015
pt of the day

"As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world ...
as in being able to remake ourselves."
Try to realize it's all within yourself
no one else can make you change.
The most important of life's battles is
the one we fight daily in the silent chambers of the soul.

March 27, 2015
pt of the day

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“Everything we have created on this planet
was essentially first created in the mind.
All the work done by humans
both the wonderful things and the horrible things
first found expression in the mind,
then became manifested in the outside world. In the yogic tradition,
a well-established mind is referred to as a “Kalpavriksha” or a “wishing tree.”
If you organize your mind to a certain level,
it in turn organizes your whole system;
your body, emotions and energies get organized in that direction.
If this happens, you are a Kalpavriksha yourself.
Anything that you wish will happen.”
~Sadhguru

March 28, 2015
pt of the day

PATIENCE, TRUST & TEAMWORK:
the below pictures show my client Christine Wallace​ BEFORE PICTURES
& her last competition which took a period of 2 yrs to accomplish.
Her 1st show 2012 was Bikini where she placed 4th,
then she did Figure 2013 and got 2nd.
Then 2014 moved up to Physique and was CHAMPION.
So many people think this CHANGING OF THEIR BODY TRANSFORMATION is INSTANT...
and when they don't get what they want,
flippantly jump ship & try another trainer usually lookin for an easier, softer, quicker way to get what they want.
Christine is a perfect example of a GREAT STUDENT/ PROTEGE
as she listens to her coach & follows instructions for diet, training, supplements
and all the things a coach gives their client in order to succeed,
she works hard, stays consistent, stays focused,
when she's struggling she reaches out, tells me what is going on,
and what obstacles she's up against so i can help her overcome them.
If you don't tell your coach what is going on they can't help you,
Success is far beyond lifting weights, cardio & a meal plan....
Its a balance and dance of TEAMWORK between CLIENT & COACH.
And only through COMMUNICATION, PERSEVERANCE, COMMITMENT, DEDICATION,
& TRUST ON BOTH SIDES can the COACH/CLIENT relationship & GOALS OF EACH COME TO FRUITION....
thank you Christine for allowing me to be apart of your journey & life,
and having the trust in faith in me to stick with me these last almost 3 years,
and to watch you rise not only as an athlete,
but as the wonderful soul you are,
love you, your coach Dawn Alison