MOTIVATIONAL OF THE DAY

BRAVER, STRONGER, SMARTER

All of us have a GREAT capacity for courage and strength and intelligence. We might not think it, but we DO.

When you are going through immense change and everything in your life is topsy-turvy, upside down and back-to-front, and you keep GOING, head down, surging FORWARD through it all that is COURAGE. When your life changes so dramatically that tragedy besets you at almost every turn and you don’t know when the flames of destruction and pain will end, but you hold your head high and continue walking THROUGH the fire that is STRENGTH. When you have no idea what direction your life is headed but, coupled with what you know and common-sense, trust your instinct to lead you true that is INTELLIGENCE.

There is MORE within us than we could ever have possibly imagined. Some of us have just not yet had the life experience that causes us to draw deep within us to what we might have thought we never had. Those of us that have, whilst know the pain and suffering and heartache of such times, understand the NEED for them, their NECESSITY for personal GROWTH, and in TRULY knowing the desires hidden deep inside our SOUL.

When you see and ACCEPT those desires, you are called upon yet again to use that courage to step out AFTER your dreams, your strength to withstand any OBSTACLES that might want to hold you back, and the intelligence to know what to do when, so that you can ACHIEVE your dreams and see them made REALITY. Life is a winding path and you never know which way it can turn, so we do the BEST with what we have as we strive to become the BEST that we can possibly BE.

© Rosie Chee

MOTIVATIONAL OF THE DAY

BE STRONG

The night seems longer than ever, darker than ever, your tears limitless in their source, the emotions tearing and ripping you apart seeming determined to see how little they can leave you with. Yet you know better – that you are stronger than this, have endured much more than this, too many times before, and that you found a way before, so you will find a way NOW. You will be STRONG and no one will ever know, your face a smile, your body acting as it should, living life through the “motions”.

You HAVE to be strong. You cannot let it show. You will not let them see your struggle. Your pain is yours alone, because the one that should have cared cares not. You have others relying on you and you must be strong for them. Never mind what YOU are going through. You continue to be the rock that they “need”, even when you have no rock of your own.

You stay strong on all outward appearance and you see the irony in the strength others get from YOU. You understand that even when your own world is dark you can STILL be a light in that of others. You can still provide some comfort to others and help them through THEIR tough times. You can continue to be everything that they think you are because they need you to be that, even though you may feel powerless and unsure of how to proceed in your own situation.

Your strength, your guidance, your simply “being” – you may never know how it helps another or inspires them. You do it because it’s what you do. In turn, though you may not find the peace that YOU seek, you can at least know that you are able to make a difference. You can continue being an example – you ARE an example, your entire life, though it might not always be the best one. You continue on, because if you did not, the other option is NOT an option.

© Rosie Chee

MOTIVATIONAL OF THE DAY

STRONGER THAN YOU THINK

What you’re going through now – God didn’t give it to you because He knew you couldn’t handle it; He gave it to you because He knew you COULD. He would NEVER have given you something He knew was NOT in your capability to handle, if the strength you needed was not already inside you just waiting to be found and used.

Sometimes we are given struggles so that we might FIND our strength and realize that we had it all along. Sometimes those struggles are given to DEVELOP the strength dormant in us, the strength we never might have thought we had; or maybe the strength we were not sure we wanted to see. Sometimes our struggles only make us realize just WHAT we have within us.

What faces you might seem daunting. You might not be able to share it with another soul, or only one other, and it is tearing you apart – such are the tests of life, the trials that “make us” when we REFUSE to break. Know that whatever the circumstances, He KNOWS you ARE strong enough – you might just have to get down on your knees and cry out for it, trusting that He will “give” it.

When life delivers such a blow, crippling your soul so that you feel like darkness is your only escape route, wanting to run and hide from the world for a time or maybe forever, understand and take some comfort, hard as it might seem amidst the pain, that though it is not a way YOU would have chosen, you are “given” the life you lead BECAUSE you are strong ENOUGH to live it.                       

© 2013 Rosie Chee

2012 | Day 163: I can do bad all by myself

MOTIVATIONAL OF THE DAY

Be Strong

Quote for Reflection:

Image credit: Blue Mountain Arts

TRAINING

Weights - Full-Body Intended (30 sec recovery between trisets):
TriSet A -
1. Single-Arm DB Bent Over Rows 3 x 6 per arm
2. Plyometric Push-Ups (on fists) 3 x 6
3. Single-Leg Deadlifts (with twist and lateral reach) 3 x 10 per leg
TriSet B -
4. Behind-the-neck BB Military Press 3 x 10
5. BB Military Press 3 x 10
6. DB Lateral Raises 3 x 10

*Break 12 min*

TriSet C -
7. Swissball Crunches (270 degrees to 180 degrees) 1 x 10
8. Ab Rollout 1 x 10
9. Plank 1 x 1 min

Treadmill:
a. 1 min @ Incline 4 @ 4 miles/hour
b. 1 min @ Incline 5 @ 5 miles/hour
c. 3 min @ Incline 6 @ 6 miles/hour
d. 10 min @ Incline 3 @ 3 miles/hours

OTHER NOTES

Sleep: Actually, ~6 hours of UNinterrupted and deep sleep. Woke feeling like absolute crap though, shoulders both in pain.

Energy: Felt like I was going to pass out after getting off the treadmill re training today. Sitting on the couch I was suddenly exhausted. Thinking a lot of stress is contributing to this, as well as poor nutrition, and issues with my shoulders - plus, also dosed two tablets of Aleve twice prior to this point today (to help re shoulder pain, although it's not doing much).

Joints: My left shoulder is the way my right one was a day or two before I woke up and could barely move it without wanting to scream. Please, God, please do NOT let my body break on me again! I have been trying so hard to be more careful with it, smarter with training, going lighter some days to ensure my shoulders do NOT suffer as much, even as I still try to push my body as hard as I can. The fact that it's been six months since I last had a week off from weights might have something to do with it, but I HAVE given myself some easiER weeks in there, some with less resistance session, although the last few weeks, I have added in an extra resistance session here and there. The pain has been a constant nagging in both shoulders today, and after training, I've had to be very careful with any movement re my left, since it IS VERY painful.

Quality of Training: Today was one of those days when you know if you continue to push on, you're only going to cause some damage. I TRIED to, but in the end...Full-Body session today. Struggled BADLY. My left anterior delt/biceps' tendons (more IN the shoulder though) was so painful that EVERY rep was an effort and I was SO close to tears it was not funny. After battling it out in frustration for two lots of trisets, I decided to stop and just go to the recline bike and be done with it. However, got on that, and was just exhausted. Mentally, I was just NOT there, so got off it and went to sit for a while. After ~12 minutes, I decided to continue with my weights' session, but after one of TriSet C, I was done for. I had NOTHING. Even in my mind, I was GONE from the session. I DID end up walking on the treadmill - for the first time ever on an incline - for 15 minutes, mindlessly walking, just because I needed to do SOMEthing, and because what I HAD done, even though it hurt like hell, felt like I had done NOTHING...So, considering this my day OFF this week...

Supplements: I now have all my staples back.

Overall Sense of Feeling: NOT good. If only I could rewind back ~2.5 weeks, before I got into this funk. But, it can't be done, so only looking FORWARD. I need to get OUT of this funk and back to being ME. NOW!!!

Other Notes: All the best to everyone competing at the Junior Nationals in Chicago over the next couple of days!