EVOLUTION OF A PURPOSE DRIVEN WARRIOR: I AM ME

March 30, 2013

2013 | Day 88: TWO POWERFUL WORDS

MOTIVATIONAL OF THE DAY

TWO POWERFUL WORDS

I AM. Two very powerful words, for what comes AFTER determines your destiny. YOU determine your destiny by what you THINK about yourself, for what you think about yourself becomes your unconscious AND conscious actions. Your actions lead to consequences or in directions that will decide positive or negative effect and that effect will steer you towards or away from the person you have ultimate POTENTIAL to be.

I DECIDE. Another two powerful words, for in the end YOU decide what you want in your life. YOU make the choices that will forge the journey you will undertake. Your HEART plants the seed of your purpose and your thoughts will the actions you eventually make.

I CREATE. My future. What will YOURS be?

© 2013 Rosie Chee

July 19, 2012

2012 | Day 196: A Little Easier for Exhaustion

MOTIVATIONAL OF THE DAY

Always Be ME

No one will EVER be perfect. No one CAN ever be. That’s not to say that we can’t STRIVE for perfection - just that we will never ever be PERFECT [as God deems perfection]. However, in the striving, the reaching, the seeking to create the best possible self, we will BECOME something great and amazing, no matter if it is not “perfect”, and we may end up close to our own definition of “perfect”.

To others we may already be “perfect”, but we are truly perfectly IMperfect, and that is what makes us who we are. There is NOTHING wrong with being imperfect. Being imperfect means that we are human. It means that we have things to work on, always some way that we can become BETTER. And life is all about progressing, moving FORWARD, being better today than we were yesterday, always GROWING.

Everything about me is ME. It is me doing what I do the way I do it. It is me stepping towards MY dreams and striving to make them reality. It is me speaking MY mind and allowing my perspective of the world to flow into it. It is me simply being ME. I AM ME AND NO ONE ELSE AND ALWAYS WILL BE, AND NO ONE ELSE CAN EVER BE OR WILL EVER BE ME!

Quote for Reflection:

TRAINING

Arms/Abs (30 sec recovery between supersets/trisets):
SuperSet A -
1. Hanging Straight-Leg Raises 4 x 10
2. Skip 4 x 100 revolutions
TriSet A -
3. DB Hammer Bicep Curls 4 x 8
4. Dips 4 x 6
5. Skip 4 x 100 revolutions
TriSet B -
6. Alternate Incline DB Hammer Bicep Curls 4 x 16
7. Rope Tricep Push-Downs 4 x 6
8. Skip 4 x 100 revolutions
SuperSet B -
9. Pikes 4 x 15
10. Skip 4 x 100 revolutions

Post-Weights Cardio:
Recline Bike 20 min @ 101-103 rpm

Stretch 20 min

OTHER NOTES

Sleep: A lot of it - far more than I needed.

Energy: Dead on my feet. Even got told I looked "tired" last night when I was in the gym doing a training session - funny how that used to be how I looked all the time.

Quality of Training: Shorter weights' session today by a quarter (Tony and Doug - that is me taking it "easier"). Was ok though. Glad to be finished on the recline bike and out of there I was that exhausted.

Directly Fitness: A couple more of my articles have been published: Transform Your Tummy With These 8 Essential Tips! and The Cardio Debate for Fat Loss: High Intensity versus Low Intensity - check them both out here.

Favourite Quotes

"I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me." - Philippians 4:13

"TRUST in HIM, who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think." - Ephesians 3:20

"Look back and thank God. Look forward and trust God. Look within and find God! God closes doors no man can open and God opens doors no man can close!" - Unknown

"'For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Then you will call on me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.'" - Jeremiah 29:11-13

"Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. IMPOSSIBLE is nothing. How are you going to live your life?" - U.S. Army

"I succeed because I am willing to do the things you are not. I will fight against the odds. I will sacrifice. I am not shacked by fear, insecurity or doubt. I feel those emotions but I drink them in and swallow them away to the blackness of hell. I am motivated by accomplishment, not pride. Pride consumes the weak and kills their heart from inside. If I fall... I will get up. If I am beaten... I will return. I will never give up... EVER." - Nike

"The biggest risk in life is to risk nothing at all." - Anonymous

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light not our darkness that frightens us. Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn’t serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. As we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give others permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence actually liberates others." - Marianne Williamson

"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 and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, 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, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat." - Theodore Roosevelt

"It’s not about what you’ve got; it’s about what you DO with what you’ve got.” – Andie West, Step Up 2: The Streets

"To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." – Steve Prefontaine

"Never, never, never, never give up." - Winston Churchill

"Let me tell you something you already know. The world ain't all sunshine and rainbows. It's a very mean and nasty place, and I don't care how tough you are, it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain't about how hard you hit. It's about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward; how much you can take and keep moving forward. That's how winning is done! Now, if you know what you're worth, then go out and get what you're worth. But you gotta be willing to take the hits, and not pointing fingers saying you ain't where you wanna be because of him, or her, or anybody. Cowards do that and that ain't you. You're better than that!...until you start believing in yourself, you ain't gonna have a life...Cause if you're willing to go through all the battling you got to go through to get where you want to get, who's got the right to stop you? I mean maybe some of you guys got something you never finished, something you really want to do, something you never said to someone, something...and you're told no, even after you paid your dues? Who's got the right to tell you that, who? Nobody! It's your right to listen to your gut, it ain't nobody's right to say no after you earned the right to be where you want to be and do what you want to do!...You know, the older I get the more things I gotta leave behind, that's life. The only thing I'm asking you guys to leave on the table...is what's right." - Rocky Balboa

"Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength." - Arnold Schwarzenegger

"Nothing in the world is permanent and we are foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we are still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it." – William Somerset Maughan

"There comes a time when you have to stand up and shout: This is me damn it! I look the way I look, think the way I think, feel the way I feel, love the way I love! I am a whole complex package. Take me... or leave me. Accept me - or walk away! Do not try to make me feel like less of a person, just because I don't fit your idea of who I should be and don't try to change me to fit your mold. If I need to change, I alone will make that decision. When you are strong enough to love yourself 100%, good and bad - you will be amazed at the opportunities that life presents you." - Stacey Charter

EVOLUTION OF A PURPOSE DRIVEN WARRIOR

March 30, 2013

2013 | Day 88: TWO POWERFUL WORDS

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2012 | Day 196: A Little Easier for Exhaustion

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