MOTIVATIONAL OF THE DAY

WHAT YOU WANT

Sometimes we have a dream that we are hesitant to go after because we believe for whatever reason, whether we told it to ourselves or someone else did and we started believing that we do not deserve what we want. That is NOT true. You DO deserve your heart’s desire, the passionate dreams lying in your soul, for they were NOT placed there by accident, and you would not have them if there was no purpose to them or you could not fulfil them in your life and that of others.

IGNORE those who tell you “no”, who say you “can’t” or “shouldn’t”, who have no idea who you are or what you are capable of, those who have let their own dreams fall to the wayside and have no belief or hope left inside them. Instead surge FORWARD, strive on, keep fighting, ensure constant progression towards your goals and dreams, utilizing the power of positive thought and reinforcement, surrounding yourself with people who SUPPORT your ambitions and understand the journey you have embarked upon.

NEVER let anyone tell you that you do not deserve something. NEVER let anyone discourage you from going after your dreams. NEVER let anyone deter you from the destiny that your heart wants for you, especially if INSTINCT and everything in you is screaming out for the FULFILMENT of your dream.

You DO deserve what you want. You DO have the power to make your dreams REALITY. You CAN do this, so OWN it, get out there and MAKE IT HAPPEN!

© Rosie Chee

MOTIVATIONAL OF THE DAY

COMMITTMENT, POSITIVITY, AND WILLINGNESS

Life is full of struggles, challenges that force us to rise to our POTENTIAL. Some see the hardship in the challenge and give up because they find it too difficult, whilst others CRAVE the challenge and seek every way possible to use the experience to BETTER themselves.

There IS a way through every challenge, if your eyes are OPEN to it, thinking OUTSIDE the box, nurturing creativity and GROWTH in your soul. There is an OPPORTUNITY to DISCOVER new aspects of life and of yourself, gifts waiting to be ACCEPTED and OPENED with wonder.

To FIND the way through life’s challenges you have to be COMMITTED: To yourself, the goal, the dream, allowing your mind to filter away any negativity about the outcome, knowing that if you have faith it will all work out. Not always as you wanted or expected, but in a way that will only ENRICH your life, adding to the wealth of experience you ALREADY have, EXPANDING your mind and heart, and opening up your soul for even MORE blessings.

To get THROUGH life’s challenges, you need to be WILLING to walk the path before you, no matter how daunting or unknown. You have to believe in yourself and your ability to OVERCOME, ensuring POSITIVITY even when your heart might feel faint at some point in the journey. Your willingness to WORK through the obstacles thrown in front of you reveals your soul, the way you seek to conquer them and see them as stepping stones to GROWTH.

Moving through life is a FORWARD journey. You cannot grow if you stay still or move backwards. You HAVE to move forward, ALWAYS forward, focused on the FUTURE stretched before you, knowing that you have the LIMITLESS potential to create in it whatever you want it to BECOME.

COMMIT yourself to the path you have determined to walk. Be POSITIVE about your chances of success. Seek WILLINGLY the path less taken and carve your OWN path. Stride FORWARD in FAITH and BELIEVE for the BEST.

© Rosie Chee

MOTIVATIONAL OF THE DAY

COMMITTMENT, POSITIVITY, AND WILLINGNESS

Life is full of struggles, challenges that force us to rise to our POTENTIAL. Some see the hardship in the challenge and give up because they find it too difficult, whilst others CRAVE the challenge and seek every way possible to use the experience to BETTER themselves.

There IS a way through every challenge, if your eyes are OPEN to it, thinking OUTSIDE the box, nurturing creativity and GROWTH in your soul. There is an OPPORTUNITY to DISCOVER new aspects of life and of yourself, gifts waiting to be ACCEPTED and OPENED with wonder.

To FIND the way through life’s challenges you have to be COMMITTED: To yourself, the goal, the dream, allowing your mind to filter away any negativity about the outcome, knowing that if you have faith it will all work out. Not always as you wanted or expected, but in a way that will only ENRICH your life, adding to the wealth of experience you ALREADY have, EXPANDING your mind and heart, and opening up your soul for even MORE blessings.

To get THROUGH life’s challenges, you need to be WILLING to walk the path before you, no matter how daunting or unknown. You have to believe in yourself and your ability to OVERCOME, ensuring POSITIVITY even when your heart might feel faint at some point in the journey. Your willingness to WORK through the obstacles thrown in front of you reveals your soul, the way you seek to conquer them and see them as stepping stones to GROWTH.

Moving through life is a FORWARD journey. You cannot grow if you stay still or move backwards. You HAVE to move forward, ALWAYS forward, focused on the FUTURE stretched before you, knowing that you have the LIMITLESS potential to create in it whatever you want it to BECOME.

COMMIT yourself to the path you have determined to walk. Be POSITIVE about your chances of success. Seek WILLINGLY the path less taken and carve your OWN path. Stride FORWARD in FAITH and BELIEVE for the BEST.

© Rosie Chee

MOTIVATIONAL OF THE DAY

EVOLUTION

Those whom I have let know and walk beside me can see how I have changed, the evolution that has occurred, and know that it is not yet over. Those who do not know me can also see in the time that they have known of me that something has changed and can only watch as that change continues to unfold.

I remember the person I was. I know that person. I understand her. I have seen how far she has come, how she has changed and the difference the changes have made. I also know how she is the same, the aspects that have grown stronger, darker, harder and more resilient, even as they are nothing as they were yet are.

I know where the woman I am is now. I know how conflicted is her heart and how close to complete breaking was her soul. I know the chaos that flees through her mind, the darkness that sometimes overshadows the light. I also know that it is a place she cannot stay.

I see where the evolution of my being can take me. I know that nothing is always as it seems and that a huge part of my future lies in the decisions and actions I choose upon in the now. I know that there is more growth to come, but that it can only make me better than who I am today.

Far from where I once was, but still far from where I will ultimately be, I can only make the choice to walk forward with courage and positivity, knowing that I am not alone, my strength drawn from Him, my refuge in Him, and that there is nothing that will come at me I cannot face without fear.

© 2014 Rosie Chee

MOTIVATIONAL OF THE DAY

SOMETHING WONDERFUL

Life is full of miracles and wonders. Life is full of beauty and majesty. There is ALWAYS something that can – and will – amaze and surprise you, especially when you LEAST expect it, often when you have given up on anything of the like [for you].

Live life like it IS a miracle – because it IS. Live life like something WONDERFUL is going to happen to YOU – because it IS waiting to be. Live life APPRECIATING the beauty of the souls and hearts and of those who surround [and love] you. Live life knowing what majesty created this world and give THANKS for it.

Life loves to SURPRISE you, to create DELIGHT in your soul, by AMAZING you with WONDER. It loves to bring JOY to your soul in the most UNexpected of ways, through the most UNlikely of people. It loves to RENEW the HOPE in the hearts of the broken and weary, giving them something to look FORWARD to after the cold and dark night of tragedy. It loves to RESTORE the FAITH of those who have all but lost it, giving them glimpse of the future and what could be.

Life is full of everything you could ever imagine and MORE. It might try to beat you down and bring you to your knees, but it can also be truly wonderful, and sometimes you have to look past the pain and ugliness to see the beauty and wonder of it. You have to accept that there is a BALANCE and you cannot have one withOUT the other - they will always COexist, just as there exists light and dark within the human soul. The soul holds more power and strength than you might ever know, so always believe and never forget, that something wonderful is about to happen [just when you need it the most].

© Rosie Chee

Day 229: Petey

MOTIVATIONAL QUOTE OF THE DAY

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Day 191: Quick Update

I apologize for those who have been following, but with everything going on, I haven't had much time for anything but work. But had to give a quick update re "Body Composition and Look": 113.4 pounds at 9% bodyfat. 24 June I was 107.2 pounds at 8% bodyfat (and in the best aesthetic condition of my life to date), and even though it is only a 1% increase in body composition, the increase in both weight and girths over the last two weeks makes me feel so fat and uncomfortable, particularly with the bloating and water retention. I have a week to get back down to at least 8% bodyfat over this next week - I HAVE TO; I want to be and MUST be leanER and in better condition than I was when I competed last year!!! Hoping I can train as I need to, since I know that the lack of training [volume] - especially re weights - over the last two weeks has been a huge detriment to my physique (as well as highly noticing the difference re water once cessation of Erase).

Next week is not going to be a lot better than the last two weeks, with a lot more changes re work and long hours of travel, and not a lot of time for training, continuing to turn my life upside down and inside out, so far from ideal this close to competition. As evidenced by my body composition, my conditioning has gone backwards, and now I have a week to try and get back to where I was, but better. Trying to stay positive. I can only do what I can do, and although it's going to take more than a little luck to achieve what I want next week, I'm going to make sure it's as best I can to get where I want!

Also to note that as of tomorrow, the ONLY supplements that I will be using for a couple of weeks are MuscleGel Shots, RecoverPRO, and Vitamin C.

Day 152: Strain on Shoulders

Training

pm

HIIT Cardio:
a. 4 min easy
b. 8 x 20 sec effort/10 sec easy
c. 4 min easy
d. 8 x 20 sec effort/10 sec easy
e. 4 min easy

Shoulders (30 sec recovery between alternate sets):
Alternate Set A -
1. BB Military Press 6 x 12, 10, 8, 8, 8, 8
2. Lateral Raises 6 x 12
Alternate Set B -
3.Behind-the-neck BB Military Press 6 x 6, 6, 6, 6, 8, 10
4. Incline Lateral/Rear Raises 6 x 12

Post-Weights Cardio 20 min.

Stretch 20 min.

Comments

Mood: I need to work on being more positive. Around people, I am all smiles, and by myself, it's like my dark twin residing.

Energy: Not the best on waking. After taking T-911, started picking up. Been a busy day on my feet since training . . .

Stimulant Effects: None.

Focus: There.

Endurance: This has suffered quite a bit over the last 12-13 weeks, and I am going to get back to where I was!

Strength: Fine.

Pump and Vascularity: Pump felt immediately from first set during resistance training (HIIT aided towards it, re skipping). Vascularity was fine.

Quality of Training: HIIT not the best. Skipping rope broke after the first set of efforts, so had to finish on the Gazelle (I'm NOT a fan of the Gazelle; I can never seem to actually be able to do PROPER efforts on it) . . . Resistance training was ok. Feeling my anterior deltoids painfully . . .

Stress: High.

Libido: Interesting . . .

Body Composition and Look: The extra weight definitely makes a difference in training - especially during cardio, even more when running . . .

Sides: None.

Back in the Saddle: Week 3 Over

This last week has been a constant battle. The first few days - with great training, all on target - really exhausted me, and I've spent the second half of the week trying to recover from the first half. NOT a position I like being in, and certainly not one I am used to. All I want to do is sleep - and I've been doing a lot. Funny, considering that a year ago, I barely slept more than 4-5 hours, and now I'm sleeping well over 12 hours whenever I fall asleep. My sleeping schedules have become all back to front and upside down again . . . To say that everything from the fatigue to the inability of my body to find and keep a routine is depressing is an UNDERstatement . . .



As I mentioned before, training is my lifeblood - in more ways than one - and NOT being able to do it is HELL. Everything suffers, from mood to mental focus, to stress levels and libido, to appetite and overall sense of well being, when I do NOT train. Quite unhealthy, that so much should balance on one thing, I know, but that's the way it's always been - and yes, I know that just because something has always been so, does not mean that it should always be so. Hence why I am making a real effort to be positive and just work through this time.



Your struggles are when your strengths come out, and you are seen for what you really are. My mother always said that I could be dying, and no one would ever know any better. That may be true, but I know also that sometimes sharing your struggles and weaknesses can sometimes make a burden that seems to bear the weight of the world in it lighter, and bring a gentle flicker of hope to your soul.



I just want my life back on track as fast as possible - for all of this to be over. I did this to myself, and I can UNdo it! I can. I must. I have to. I WILL!

Day 124: Stretch out those hamstrings

12 hours of sleep - and for the first time, I went to bed semi-early as well. Woke ok; a bit shattered from training yesterday, as to be expected when my body is no longer used to being pushed (and it's going to HAVE to get used to it, because from now on, there's NO give). Readying myself for training . . .



pm



Cardio 20 min.



Abs/Hamstrings (1 min recovery between supersets):

Superset A -

1. Hanging Straight-Leg Curls/Raises 4 x 10

2. Weighted Crunch (on bench) 4 x 10

Superset B -

3. BB Romanian Deadlifts (on box - BB/plates touch ground) 4 x 6

4. Stiff-Legged BB Deadlifts (BB touch ground) 4 x 10

Superset C -

5. Lying Leg Curls 4 x 10

6. Weighted Rope Crunch 4 x 10



Post-Weights Cardio 20 min.



Stretch 20 min.



In a fairly good mood today - trying the positive approach. Although my body did not feel like training, I made sure that I worked it hard. A little different than what I was doing before I got adrenal fatigue, and certainly having to adapt, since I'm not using stimulants to 'wake me up' and help re energy to get through everything.



The weather, although spring here in the United States, is already as hot as a New Zealand summer, and, not being a huge fan of the heat and humidity, I am not looking forward to it getting hotter (I don't mind dry heat, but not when it's muggy). Pleasant enough, though, and later, when it's cooler, I'm going to mow the lawns (love the smell of freshly cut grass - a definite summer scent).



So, working on being positive about how my body and mind are feeling about my inability to train like I am accustomed to, and see the light through the clouds . . .

Back in the Saddle: Another Week Down

It's been an interesting last three days. With my baby sister visiting, I've been doing a lot of exercise that I wouldn't normally do, replacing my usual training on those days for 2.5-3 hours of a different sort of training.



Sleeping has definitely been better - and actually, although it's not anywhere near as intense as my training, because I am not used to it, and also because of the fatigue, what I have been doing has been exhausting me.



Mood has stayed pretty high and constant most days.



Mental focus and clarity has been ok.



Energy levels still waning somewhat, and it's going to take me quite some time to get back to where I can wake up and feel like I don't want to go back to sleep for another day or so.



Got to stay positive; keep my focus on what I want, and know that I will get there . . . Soon . . .