MAD

MAD.......

I hope that this time of the year finds everyone filled with joy and blessings with friends and family! It is so awesome we get to celebrate our Saviors birth!! Everybody just seems to be in a slightly better mood for one reason or another as well. Really and truly this is a time to count our blessings, think about how many things we have to be thankful for, and how we can impact somebody else! Sometimes it takes us the opportunity to serve others who are less fortunate to really understand all that we have and have to offer other people. I write this because it was on my heart that whether it be this season or not, what are we doing to make a difference?

MAD stands for making a difference!! I'm sure some of you were just interested in reading this because it had MAD at the top!! lol I probably would have done the same.

Many of us think that we don't have an opportunity or the ability to make a difference! However, I'm going to show you that in the health and fitness realm, how much you have to offer other people, especially the ones around you! Get ready to receive the mindset of changing generations. When you make a conscience decision to become more healthy and fit not only do you benefit from it, but your family and friends around you do! How awesome is that!! When someone is changing their life and takes eating healthy and exercising seriously others around them see the difference. You become an inspiration and spokesperson to a healthy lifestyle. Just think about, how many families are left fatherless because of heart attacks? How many women are infertile because of obesity? How many people spend hundreds of dollars a month on blood pressure medication? I could go on and on. But, when you have influence on your family and your friends who have families think about how much you can do to advocate healthy lifestyle decisions. Unfortunately Oklahoma has the highest obesity rate in the United States!!! What are we doing to make a difference?

You can make a difference though by deciding to change yourself and then helping others see the difference. Maybe you get MAD and encourage a friend to go to the gym with you? Maybe you get MAD and learn to cook differently for your family? Maybe you get MAD and have your kids do physical activity and chores instead of video games. This is so serious guys!!! You can make a huge difference by changing daily decisions. If you don't do it for yourself, do it for your family. Usually obesity tendencies are passed down from generation to generation. It is time to step up and put your foot down to letting days turn into weeks and weeks turn into months before you do something!! The time is now. I believe in you and know that the generations to come will see a difference because of commitments and decisions that were made this very day.

So enjoy this season, invite somebody to work out, research some healthy recipes, and ultimately make a difference!!
It starts with us! Love you guys!

Faith.........

def. of FAITH-
1 allegiance to duty or a person : loyalty b (1) : fidelity to one's promises (2) : sincerity of intentions
2 a (1) : belief and trust in and loyalty to God (2) : belief in the traditional doctrines of a religion b (1) : firm belief in something for which there is no proof (2) : complete trust
3 : something that is believed especially with strong conviction; especially : a system of religious beliefs

As I embark on a new journey of being a full time self-employed personal trainer I realize that FAITH has started this all........
Because without FAITH, I would still be in the same position I was more than a year ago. The definition of FAITH above can really make us stop and think......Do I really have faith? In what I'm doing, in what God has planned, in what I can't yet see? How thought provoking that can be! It is easy to have faith when things are going your way and everything seems easy. It is when things are really difficult or the future is unknown and fear creeps that having FAITH can be the hardest. In our daily lives it takes FAITH to conquer our day-to-day decisions. We have FAITH that the toilet seat is going to be there when we sit down!! :) I know that is making light of it, but truly we use FAITH to do a lot of things!! So, why don't more people have FAITH in themselves and what God created them to be? Of course there are obstacles that try to get in our way and steal our FAITH everyday, but we need to remember what we believe in and trust that having FAITH in the right things will pay off!! So invest in yourself today and have FAITH that things are going to go your way and that there is an awesome plan for you to have a HEALTHY, exciting, fun-filled life. So as I practice FAITH in the months to come and trust God in His direction for me in the world of fitness, I challenge you to practice FAITH of your own to be great and fulfill all your expectations. I believe in you and have FAITH that you can achieve all that you want! Have a FAITH filled week to come! What's stopping you?...................