Q & A with Dawn Alison

Feb 24, 2017
pt of the day

“Happiness is when what you think,
what you say,
and what you do are in harmony.”
“Happiness is not something ready made.
It comes from your own actions.”
“Happiness is the consequence of personal effort.
You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it,
and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it.
You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings.
And once you have achieved a state of happiness,
you must never become lax about maintaining it.
You must make a mighty effort
to keep swimming upward into that happiness forever,
to stay afloat on top of it.”

The truth......

Feb 26, 2017
pt of the day

“It isn’t what you have,
or who you are,
or where you are,
or what you are doing
that makes you happy or unhappy.
It is what you think about.”
“Don’t rely on someone else for your happiness and self-worth.
Only you can be responsible for that.
If you can’t love and respect yourself
no one else will be able to make that happen.
Accept who you are – completely;
the good and the bad
and make changes as YOU see fit
not because you think someone else wants you to be different.”

Feb 27, 2017
pt of the day

“You have power over your mind - not outside events.
Realize this, and you will find strength.”
“Man often becomes what he believes himself to be.
If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing,
it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it.
On the contrary,
if I have the belief that I can do it,
I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.”

Feb 28, 2017
pt of the day

What is discipline?
Discipline means creating an order within you.
“Self-respect is the root of discipline:
The sense of dignity grows
with the ability to say no to oneself.”
“A disciplined mind leads to happiness,
and an undisciplined mind leads to suffering.”

Mar 1, 2017
pt of the day

“Awake!
there is always a reason to give up
and there is always a reason to soldier on unrelentingly.
Don't give up so easily on a true purpose
just because you perceive an arduous errand.
Arise for you can do something to overcome something!
Look beyond what you look
and awaken your inner person.
Move!
And you shall surely see a fabulous end!”

Mar 2, 2017
pt of the day


Goals are my north star.
My compass.
The map that guides me along the road I wish to travel.
Goals are motivations with wind in their sails
they carry me forward despite the storms.

Mar 3, 2017
pt of the day

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

March 4, 2017
pt of the day

“At the end of the day
it's not a weight contest,
it's a visual contest.
And it doesn't matter what you say you weigh.“
Each workout is like a brick in a building,
and every time you go in there and do a half-ass workout,
you're not laying a brick down.
Somebody else is.”
—Dorian Yates

March 5, 2017
pt of the day

"The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow.
This area of pain divides the champion
from someone else who is not a champion.
That's what most people lack,
having the guts to go on
and just say they'll go through the pain no matter what happens."
"The resistance that you fight physically in the gym
and the resistance that you fight in life
can only build a strong character."

Mar 6, 2017
pt of the day


“Courage is the most important of all the virtues
because without courage,
you can't practice any other virtue consistently.
”“You have power over your mind
not outside events.
Realize this, and you will find strength.”
“Courage isn't having the strength to go on
it is going on when you don't have strength.”

Mar 7, 2017
pt of the day

“Believe in your greatness.
Because what you believe is what you become.”
“Nothing great was ever achieved without a personal sacrifice.
You have to pay the price to realize your goals.”
“Sometimes the difference between success and failure
is simply the degree to which you crave one over the other.”

March 8, 2017
pt of the day

“The harder the conflict,
the more glorious the triumph.
What we obtain too cheap,
we esteem too lightly;
it is dearness only that gives everything its value.
I love the man that can smile in trouble,
that can gather strength from distress and grow.”
“Don’t let mental blocks control you.
Set yourself free.
Confront your fear
and turn the mental blocks into building blocks.”
“The world’s greatest achievers have been
those who have always stayed focused on their goals
and have been consistent in their efforts.”

March 9, 2017
pt of the day

“The weak can never forgive.
Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”
“The truth is,
unless you let go,
unless you forgive whomever and or yourself,
unless you forgive the situation,
unless you realize that the situation is over,
you cannot move forward.”
“To err is human,
to forgive, divine.”

March 10, 2017
pt of the day

“If you want to live a happy life,
tie it to a goal, not to people or things.”
“Whenever you want to achieve something,
keep your eyes open,
concentrate
and make sure you know exactly what it is you want.
No one can hit their target with their eyes closed”
“To conquer frustration,
one must remain intensely focused on the outcome,
not the obstacles.”

March 11, 2017
pt of the day

Every mile marker can be met with some measure of trepidation,
in a race or in life.
Am I on target?
Do I have what it takes to finish strong?
Am I taking care to stay nourished so I can endure?
Is my training proving to be sufficient?
Am I prepared for the hills?
It is impossible to fathom the full distance,
so we make our way to the next mile marker,
and the next,
checking in with ourselves as we go.
If I fail, I try again, and again, and again.
If YOU fail, are you going to try again?
The human spirit can handle much worse than we realize.
It matters HOW you are going to FINISH.
Are you going to finish strong?

Mar 12. 2017
pt of the day


When you're good at making excuses,
it's hard to excel at anything else.
You can make excuses
or you can make progress.
You choose.
Once your excuses are gone,
you will simply have to settle for being awesome!

March 13, 2017
pt of the day

All that we are
is a result of what we have thought.
Take the first step in faith.
You don’t have to see the whole staircase.
Just take the first step.
Imagination is everything.
It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.
Whether you think you can
or think you can’t,
either way you are right.
Whatever the mind can conceive
it can achieve.

MARCH 14, 2017
pt of the day

“You cannot swim for new horizons
until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.”
“He that can have patience
can have what he will.”
“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.”

March 15, 2017
pt of the day


“If you haven't confidence in self,
you are twice defeated in the race of life.
With confidence, you have won even before you have started. ”
“Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.”“
Do you know what makes someone beautiful?
Confidence.
You don't have to have this shape eyes or that shape lips.
No one seems to be able to decide which shape is best anyway.
You can have every kind of blemish.
It's confidence that attracts people.
That's what everybody's looking for.
It's what no potion can really give you.
And believe me, Belle,
you've got it.
You've got it if you want it.”

Mar 16, 2017
pt of the day

Anyone can give up,
it's the easiest thing in the world to do.
Courage is not the absence fear.
Courage is being scared to death
and doing it anyway.
The brave may not live forever,
but the cautious don't live at all.

March 17, 2017
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.”

March 18, 2017
pt of the day

“Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.”
“Look well into thyself;
there is a source of strength
which will always spring up
if thou wilt always look.”

Mar 19, 2017 pt of day

"Difficulties in life are intended to make us better, not bitter."

“Champions aren't made in the gyms.

Champions are made from something they have deep inside them

a desire, a dream, a vision.”

“It is not the critic who counts;

not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles,

or where the doer of deeds could have done 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,

who comes short again and again,

because there is no effort without error and shortcoming;

but who does actually strive to do the deeds;

who knows great enthusiasms,

the great devotions;

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,

at least fails while daring greatly,

so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls

who neither know victory nor defeat.”

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BIG CONGRATS TO TEAM Fit Body's LBMC 2017 RESULTS
7 clients... 8 trophies
Firsts x 4, Thirds x 4, Forth x 1


Eddy George 3rd Place Champion Classic A
Eddy George 4th Place Mens Physique A


Diana Watt Masters Womens Physique Champion


Diana Watt Womens Physique A Champion


Zainab Jebur Masters Figure 3rd Place Champion


Zainab Jebur Figure A 3rd Place Champion


Lucas Ference Mens Physique A 3rd Place Champion


Sarah Sophonow Bikini C Competitor


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Mar 20, 2017 pt of the day

“When nothing seems to help,

I go look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock

perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it.

Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two,

and I know it was not that blow that did it,

but all that had gone before.”

Mar 21, 2017
pt of the day

In essence,
if we want to direct our lives,
we must take control of our consistent actions.
It’s not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives,
but what we do consistently.
Rule your mind or it will rule you.

March 22, 2017
pt of the day

Without self-discipline,
success is impossible,
period.
The secret of success is constancy of purpose.

March 23, 2017
pt of the day

“There is no condition so severe that you cannot reverse it
by choosing different thoughts. However, choosing different
thoughts requires focus and practise. If you continue to focus
as you have been, to think as you have been, and to believe
as you have been, then nothing in your experience will change"

March 27, 2017
pt of the day

“Though you can love what you do not master,
you cannot master what you do not love.”
“There is a big difference between motion and action.
Just because you get out of bed doesn't mean you are making progress.
Taking action requires decisiveness,
dedication, and clear direction.”
“I know, win or lose,
I enjoyed the prospect of giving it my all.”

Mar 28, 2017
pt of the day

“I believe in discipline.
You can forgive incompetence.
You can forgive lack of ability.
But one thing you cannot ever forgive is lack of discipline.”
“Loyalty means nothing
unless it has at its heart the absolute principal of self-sacrifice.”
“Success is that place in the road where
preparation meets opportunity.”

Mar 29, 2017
pt of the day

“Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers,
but to be fearless in facing them.
Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain,
but for the heart to conquer it.”
“Let everything happen to you.
Beauty and terror.
Just keep going.
No feeling is final”

March 30, 2017
pt of the day

“Excuses are merely nails used to build a house of failure.”
“Persistence is the twin sister of excellence.
One is a matter of quality;
the other, a matter of time.”
“It's faith that will take you through
and determination that will drive you.”

March 31, 2017
pt of the day

“The strong-minded rise to the challenge of their goals and dreams.
The weak-minded become haters.”
“Positive energy is your priceless life force.
Protect it.
Don't allow people to draw from your reserves;
select friends who recharge your energies . . .
I'm not asking you to cut people out of your life,
but I am asking you to invest your time with people
who will push you to be your best
Winners love to see other people win.”

April 1, 2017
pt of the day

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.”
“The word courage comes from the same stem as the French word Coeur,
meaning “heart.”
Thus just as one’s heart,
by pumping blood to one’s arms, legs, and brain
enables all the other physical organs to function,
so courage makes possible all the psychological virtues.
Without courage
other values wither away into mere facsimiles of virtue.”

April 2, 2017
pt of the day

“You are essentially who you create yourself to be
and all that occurs in your life is the result of your own making.”
Believe it can be done.
When you believe something can be done,
really believe,
your mind will find the ways to do it.

SELF-FULLFILLING PROPHECY.

“If you think you are beaten, you are
If you think you dare not, you don't,
If you like to win, but you think you can't
It is almost certain you won't.

If you think you'll lose, you're lost
For out of the world we find,
Success begins with a fellow's will
It's all in the state of mind.

If you think you are outclassed, you are
You've got to think high to rise,
You've got to be sure of yourself before
You can ever win a prize.

Life's battles don't always go
To the stronger or faster man,
But soon or late the man who wins
Is the man WHO THINKS HE CAN!”

April 3, 2017
pt of the day

When things go wrong, as they sometimes will,
When the road you're trudging seems all uphill,
When 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 failure turns about,
When he might have won if he'd 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
When he might have captured the victor's cup,
And he learned too late, when the night slipped down,
How close he was to the golden crown.

Success is failure turned inside out -
The silver tint of the clouds of doubt,
And you never can tell how close you are -
It may be near when it seems afar;
So stick to the fight when you're hardest hit -
It's when things seem worst that you mustn't quit.

April 4, 2017
pt of the day

Nothing is,
unless our thinking makes it so.
All that we are is a result of
what we have thought.
Nurture your mind with great thoughts,
for you will never go any higher than you think.

“To be yourself
in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else
is the greatest accomplishment.”
“About all you can do in life
is be who you are.
Some people will love you for you.
Most will love you for what you can do for them,
and some won't like you at all.”
“There is nothing more rare,
nor more beautiful,
than a woman being unapologetically herself;
comfortable in her perfect imperfection.
To me, that is the true essence of beauty.”

April 6, 2017
pt of the day

“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 7, 2017
pt of the day

“Take action!
An inch of movement
will bring you closer to your goals
than a mile of intention.”
“Who dare tries is a success,
and shall master the art of conquering dreams.”