Favorite Quotes By Bruce Lee

Remember, success is a journey, not a destination. Have faith in your ability. You will do just fine. ~ Bruce Lee

Research you own experience; absorb what is useful, reject what is useless and add what is essentially your own. ~ Bruce Lee

Whenever I look around, I always learn one thing and that is: always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself. ~ Bruce Lee

The greatest mistake is to anticipate the outcome of engagement; you ought not to be thinking of whether it ends in victory of in defeat. Let nature takes its course and your tools will strike at the right moment. ~ Bruce Lee

You have to create your own luck. You have to be aware of opportunities around you and take advantage of them. ~ Bruce Lee

Defeat is a state of mind; no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality. To me, defeat in anything is merely temporary, and its punishment is but an urge for me to exert greater effort to achieve my goal. Defeat simply tells me that something is wrong in my doing, it is a path leading to success and truth. ~ Bruce Lee

Wednesday, December 21, 2011

The First Set of Hurdles

Training to compete in a Figure Competition is like running the hurdles, sometimes you might hit the hurdle and fall down, but its what you do after you fall that decides what happens next.  Get back up and finish or quit and give up because you are too far behind??

So as this week starts I am encountering different struggles.  This past weekend we hosted a Christmas Party for our family and friends.  Since we did it potluck style you can only imaging how many desserts we had.  I overindulged all weekend and I have struggled to get back on track.  This tells me that having cheat days makes it hard for me to get back on track when left overs are sitting in front of me.

Even though the first week was hard to get to the gym, this week I am sore and struggling with the lack of sleep. I think last night was the maybe the second night I got more than 7 hours of sleep.  I feel exhausted this week physically and even a little mentally although I am still focused and passionate about my choice.  My exhaustion could be from a variety of factors including working out twice a day or maybe not eating the right foods or even not getting enough sleep for multiple days or a combination of all these things.

MY PROPOSED SOLUTIONS


With these challenges the second week, I have to look at how to I best set myself up for the next week and salvage this one as much as possible (since I have been having a few cookies and sweets here and there...hard to admit but important to be honest and accountable for my actions).  So I have decided to do the following things:

  • Put all the cookies and sweets in Kirk's shop so they are not in the house.  I know he will eat them but he will be mad if I just throw them out since he is a sweetaholic.  After they are gone, he won't have as easy access to them.  
  • Drink lots of water, more than I planned to help flush my system
  • Continue to workout this week with some minor increases (including yoga).  
  • Next week - clean out the kitchen - remove all food that I choose not to eat while I am training and whatever Kirk wants to keep, it will be put in the shop fridge.  This will make it harder for me to be tempted and if I am in there eating it one Kirk will see me or two I will be sneaking around when no one is looking and at that point I have a problem.  I also might donate some non-perishable food that has to be cooked because I will not be eating it for several months at least.  Limiting access is important.
  • Write a meal plan that is simple and I can stick with everyday, because as of December 26, 2011 I plan on tightening up my nutrition and then planning for January.
  • Stock up on foods that I can have including lots of veggies
  • Post my meal plan and workout routine - to help keep me focused and share with you what I am eating and how I am working out.
  • Post pictures again in one month to see the changes. - This is important for accountability.
SUMMARY

Struggles are hard but should not be seen as a derailing of my overall plan.  What it means is that right now I am not doing everything I need to and even if I was, there will still be struggles.  Working towards a goal has challenges and without those struggles and speed bumps, you cannot truly appreciate your success and what you have earned.  Part of growing is experiencing challenges and dealing with things that are hard and difficult.  Some days putting your head in the sand or even sleeping in seems like a viable option but how can I achieve my goal if I don't experience growth pains???? How do I truly know what I am capable of if I don't face the challenges and overcome them???  Part of my journey is to face my personal challenges and beat them up and down, but leave them behind me, so I can reach my personal potential.  The only person I harm but letting my struggles and challenges overcome me, is me.  So even though this week is hard and I am so exhausted, I worked out twice everyday this week and I am gonna get up tomorrow and do it again.  Achieving my goals and reaching my personal best my focus and my passion.  

I choose to get back up and finish the race.  I choose to use my hurdles as a means to grow stronger and fight harder for my goals.  

Two of my favorite quotes 

~  Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant. ~ Horace

~  If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves. ~ Thomas Edison

Its time for me to astound myself and use talents I didn't know I had!!

   
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