MOTIVATIONAL OF THE DAY
MAINTAIN YOUR JOY
We are all not long for this world, so why NOT take JOY in it while you still have the chance. No matter how you are, no matter what your circumstances, there is always going to be someone better off than you, but there is also always going to be someone with much less than you.
When you find yourself in the depths of despair, your happy gone, LOOK around you. There is so much to live FOR. There are so many BLESSINGS waiting to be accepted. There are so many opportunities BOUNDLESS in your path. There is so much to SMILE about.
Life is GOOD. GOD is good. You are still alive to take PLEASURE in the world. You are still breathing to be able to make a DIFFERENCE. That difference might not be in your own life, but in that of ANOTHER who is struggling.
Stop hiding your smile and light up the world with it. You have no idea how many people think your smile is BEAUTIFUL. You have no idea how many people are ENCOURAGED by your smile. You have no idea how many people find that the world is a BRIGHTER place when you smile.
FIND your JOY and hold it CLOSE to your heart. Hold it close, so that when you feel heaviness in your soul it is right there for you to take comfort in, to remind you of all that you have and are and can be. Instead of letting yourself become a dark cloud MAINTAIN your joy and watch how your perspective CHANGES.
© 2012 Rosie Chee
TRAINING
Monday: HIIT Run
Tuesday: Arms/Abs
Wednesday: HIIT Run
Thursday: Full-Body
Friday: HIIT Run
Saturday: Run 3 miles
Sunday: [Charity] Run 5 km
OTHER NOTES
Sleep: Up and down this week, often struggling to barely get 1-1.5 hours and other times, like when I "allowed" myself to go to bed almost immediately within an hour of getting home from work on Thursday, I was out like a light.
Mood: Has been up and down this week, mostly because I have been sick, and for the latter part of the week, barely had a voice. But thank God for those precious and rare friends who TRULY know you and when you NEED a reality KICK to the gut, so no more allowing how my body feels to show on my face, putting on that smile because when you're someone who leads, you affect everyone else around you.
Energy: Has been pretty low this week.
Concentration: Up and down with the pain and energy.
Body Composition: 8.5% bodyfat - so gained some bodyfat this week, which is no surprise given that my eating has continued with the same pattern re last week and training has virtually been non-existent.
Quality of Training: I have actually LISTENED to my body this week. Monday, because my left shoulder was in so much pain during and after my HIIT, I decided to "postpone" that resistance training session to Wednesday (and push the rest of the week back), but come Wednesday and my shoulders were BOTH in so much pain that I just did HIIT and left it at that, proceeding to have Friday off from the weights, as well as Saturday because of it. Tuesday I just pushed through it, since it was all I did, but right anterior delt/biceps tendon was SCREAMING throughout, making for a lot of pain endured the rest of the day. Thursday actually felt ok until the final quadset. And today is not really "training", but I'm still going to get out there and just run that 5 km as FAST as I can.
Joints: CONSTANT PAIN in both shoulders - even when I am STILL. Left wrist playing up more as the week progressed.
Nutrition: Continued re the 8-hour fast/12-hour feeding window, sometime that window going out to ~16 hours - have been excessively hungry this week, despite having what I truly consider to be a "Week OFF" training. AND I need to drink at least another 1.5-2 litres of water a day - yesterday was the FIRST time this week I was "able" to.
Supplements: Last day with current bottle of Shred Matrix today, and able to start back on Alpha-T2 and Erase this week.
Overall Sense of Feeling: So, not the best of weeks, and certainly not the week I'd planned on, but definitely some good in there, and if I do not look at the "fitness" aspect of it, the majority of the amalgamation was decent. Letting go of something you have held onto for so very long can be emotionally exhausting, which hasn't helped and probably contributed to some of my physical fatigue (along with my nutrition, lack of training, and joint issues), but it can also give you FREEDOM. Some dreams give us life for a time, when we need that life, and then they become a beautiful memory that gives us the power to keep ON living, having found the strength and learned the lessons that it was intended to teach us. NEVER regret a love that you could not have, even if you had it, because it creates in you so much more than you might have ever imagined and blesses you. Know WHEN to let go and give yourself permission to move ON.
Sleep: Up and down this week, often struggling to barely get 1-1.5 hours and other times, like when I "allowed" myself to go to bed almost immediately within an hour of getting home from work on Thursday, I was out like a light.
Mood: Has been up and down this week, mostly because I have been sick, and for the latter part of the week, barely had a voice. But thank God for those precious and rare friends who TRULY know you and when you NEED a reality KICK to the gut, so no more allowing how my body feels to show on my face, putting on that smile because when you're someone who leads, you affect everyone else around you.
Energy: Has been pretty low this week.
Concentration: Up and down with the pain and energy.
Body Composition: 8.5% bodyfat - so gained some bodyfat this week, which is no surprise given that my eating has continued with the same pattern re last week and training has virtually been non-existent.
Quality of Training: I have actually LISTENED to my body this week. Monday, because my left shoulder was in so much pain during and after my HIIT, I decided to "postpone" that resistance training session to Wednesday (and push the rest of the week back), but come Wednesday and my shoulders were BOTH in so much pain that I just did HIIT and left it at that, proceeding to have Friday off from the weights, as well as Saturday because of it. Tuesday I just pushed through it, since it was all I did, but right anterior delt/biceps tendon was SCREAMING throughout, making for a lot of pain endured the rest of the day. Thursday actually felt ok until the final quadset. And today is not really "training", but I'm still going to get out there and just run that 5 km as FAST as I can.
Joints: CONSTANT PAIN in both shoulders - even when I am STILL. Left wrist playing up more as the week progressed.
Nutrition: Continued re the 8-hour fast/12-hour feeding window, sometime that window going out to ~16 hours - have been excessively hungry this week, despite having what I truly consider to be a "Week OFF" training. AND I need to drink at least another 1.5-2 litres of water a day - yesterday was the FIRST time this week I was "able" to.
Supplements: Last day with current bottle of Shred Matrix today, and able to start back on Alpha-T2 and Erase this week.
Overall Sense of Feeling: So, not the best of weeks, and certainly not the week I'd planned on, but definitely some good in there, and if I do not look at the "fitness" aspect of it, the majority of the amalgamation was decent. Letting go of something you have held onto for so very long can be emotionally exhausting, which hasn't helped and probably contributed to some of my physical fatigue (along with my nutrition, lack of training, and joint issues), but it can also give you FREEDOM. Some dreams give us life for a time, when we need that life, and then they become a beautiful memory that gives us the power to keep ON living, having found the strength and learned the lessons that it was intended to teach us. NEVER regret a love that you could not have, even if you had it, because it creates in you so much more than you might have ever imagined and blesses you. Know WHEN to let go and give yourself permission to move ON.
