Feel Good Friday

Happy New Year, Ten-in-Sixers!!!!!!!  Doesn't it feel awesome to have ALREADY been doing phenomenal things for yourselves and your bodies BEFORE new year's resolution time?  Yay, you!  Welcome, 2010!

Here is a fun New Year's quote I found:
“We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day.” -Edith Lovejoy Pierce

Think about your Most Amazing Future.  This is something we talk about a lot in the business world, with various coaches & authors touting the advice.  If you could think about your most amazing future possible, not just a cool future, not just a so-so future, not just the future that you think will probably happen, but DREAM HUGE and think about your absolute most amazing future, absolute best case scenario, if there was sno limit whatsoever to your dreams.  Take a piece of paper, write in big letters in the middle of it My Most Amazing Future.  Then all around it in smaller lettering, write all the things that are in your most amazing future, whether its qualities, characteristics, actions, habits, locations, activities, feats, accomplishments, whatever it might be.  And when you think you have it complete, DREAM BIGGER!  Add more.  Add it until the whole page is full.  If you want, do this as a family for an activity and come up with your FAMILY's most amazing future. 

Check out this audio clip that is the audio version of the emailed message I got earlier this week from the motivator Jon Gordon, that's kept me excited. 

Think about your goals within that Most Amazing Future (some of them will be short-term goals and some of them will be 30-year goals, that's ok).  Every choice every day will take you closer to that most amazing future or it will keep you stalled where you're at.  LEAP despite your self-doubts.  In that moment  when you're on the edge of decision, on the edge of choice in your attitude, remember that you have a choice- to give up or keep striving forward.  No longer allow fear to paralyze you.  No longer allow your self-doubt to limit your potential.  Be excited to jump into the ocean of abundance!!!!!  Take a leap of fate.  No one is going to push you over the chasm of struggle to create the life that you want.  YOU must take the leap!

What are a couple of things from that Most Amazing Future that MOST excite you?????????  Share a couple that are fitness related maybe....

And the winner is.......

Thanks for donating such an awesome prize, Amy!  The winner receives cannister of Arbonne caffeine free daily detox tea, a package of Arbonne Figure 8 weight loss chews (really yummy BTW), & an Arbonne eye shadow sample.

The participants in the "send me your schedule" side-challenge were all entered onto pieces of paper, put in a bowl, and the winner was drawn at random....

Drumrolllllllllllllllllllllllllllll....

TADAAAAAA!!!!!!

Congratulations, Abrey!  I'll give you your prize this coming week!  Horray!

(I'm out of town Friday morning through Sunday evening)

Thanks to Jen, Marianne, Tara, & Red Hot for also particpating :) Bum one of those yummy chews off of Abrey next time you see her!

Feel the Burn Thursday!

Good morning, girls! I am so stoked on a personal level this morning- I crossed a threshold that was HUGE for me! I entered a new “decade” on the scale. Feels good to be out of the old weight “decade” that I had been stuck at for a long time! That high feels so great! Having a great week so far, hoping the weekend will hold a lot of fun adventure!

I am listening right now to the audio book 50/50 by Dean Karnazes in which he tells the story of him doing 50 marathons in 50 states in 50 days. He did this in 2006, sponsored by North Face, in a big tour called the Endurance 50. I get so amped up to run when I get to listen to these snippets throughout my week! Granted, it’s only 15 minutes maybe every other day, but having that playing in my car is so fun. I’ve learned a lot about sweat rates, altitude training advantages, physiological elements, and hill workouts, etc. One of my favorite things in there is his talking about motivation- how sometimes we get burned out or otherwise need to overcome low motivation. He says,
 “MOTIVATION MUST BE CHOSEN.”
I love that. It’s a choice. Something we talk about on this blog a ton. Every morning is a choice. Every setback presents a choice. Every moment our attitude is a choice. Every excuse that pops up we have a choice to challenge it or to let it win as usual. He doesn’t like doing motivational speaking b/c the pump-up effect on the crowd is so short-lived. External motivation doesn’t really last or doesn’t have a lasting impression. The person needs to CHOOSE to be motivated, needs to DECIDE to be motivated. What do you think of that?

What great workouts have you done this week??? Or what do you have planned for this weekend??? My knee is feeling a ton better after having taken it easy this week and so I’m planning a good run for this evening followed by some indoor cycling- can’t wait! I will have some long relaxed runs this weekend, too.

Laura, how’s your new elliptical machine working out??? Red Hot, how did your runs go while on vacation since you had free babysitters in some awesome family members??? Abrey, is your foot healing??? Amy, is your head cold gone??? I hope all of you have a phenomenal weekend & a beautiful new year celebration.

I am very stoked about tomorrow’s posting, BTW, all about the new year, so start thinking now about your goals for the next year that freak you out they’re so big & lofty!!!!!!

Whatcha Eatin' Wednesday

Good morning, ladies!
I LOVED all of your awesome quoted yesterday! You really pumped me
up. Jen, yours took the hat for me- I am going to have to put that one
somewhere in my home!!!!
Regarding recipes previously posted on here, I tried Jen's black bean
soup on Sunday night and it was yummy! I made it without carrots,
used green onion instead of a diff kind of onion, and we dipped hint
of lime tortilla chips in it. Scrumptious! And the Thai pasta, I made
that Monday night but used only a tablespoon of olive oil instead of
the 2/3 cup it calls for to cut down on its calories and it didn't
affect the taste at all for us- recommend that one for sure!

Check out this article that I haven't been able to stop thinking about
for days:
http://www.bicycling.com/article/0,6610,s1-4-21-21409-1,00.html

Although I find it funny they suggest not counting calories, I am now
obsessed with their parallel of fast food and processed food being the
equivalent of PARTIALLY DIGESTED food! Ick!!!! Our body burns more
in the digestion of raw fruits and veggies. Thought I'd share so you
all are equally as grossed out as me :)

Share what you've been eating! Any good recipes to share or snack
ideas?

Make today phenomenal!!!!

Tuesday's Motivation

Good {Early} Morning, Girls!
Here's an easy post for the day- a bunch of motivational quotes!  Check out all these gems here.  Which one is your favorite?

I loved:
Ralph Marston: "Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality."


Share your favorite motivational quotes with us, little mantras that really get you going :)

Monday Morning Check-In

Hi, ladies! How was your week? Let us know the results :) Let's make
this last week of the challenge really be everything we've got!