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Getting Stuck On The Meaningless

We all make mistakes in life.   All of us.  Some of us, however, own up to it, while others blame parents, pressure, the universe, our circumstances.. anyone and anything but themselves. 

I’ve recently made some miskates that could be life altering.  Yep. Mah whole life is going to change. I have a decision to make and it’s an important one.  How did I get to this point?  How did I hurt people?  I got stuck on the meaningless.  My subscribers, how many people posted to my pages, how many likes I got.. all of it.. meaningless.  It’s an issue I, and many other people have to deal with in this modern day of technology and being self obsessed.  And now.. I don’t mean I’m obsessed with myself. I still care about other people, picking them up and helping to motivate them, but I neglected some important relationships and so those are now suffering.

I’d like you to take a step back and assess where you’re taking your life. Do people that play a huge part in your life still hold your attention?  Or have you assumed they’ll always be there so you can dilly dally in other areas and leave them on the back burner to burn out?

Lets go over some meaningless things.  Things that do not help real life. You know, the one away from your computer? Did you forget you HAD a life outside of the computer?  Time for a reminder..

Meaningless:
Facebook Status Update
Twitter Retweets
Likes on a photo
Subscribers on your blog (they aren’t really meaningless, but do not get too obsessed w/a number)
Emails
Flattery

Replace those with things worth meaning!

Meaningful:
Family
Real Dinner out w/friends
Walking your dog
Sunshine
Calling a friend
Checking in w/grandparents
Volunteering your time at a shelter or soup kitchen
Meeting people face-to-face

Now, I understand that some of this won’t jive well with everyone and that you may have different opinions on things like how important blogging is (I know you reach a lot of people and many of you make money from your blogs, but this is just in general).  Be open to the idea that yes, maybe you should step away from the computer more often and yes, maybe you should clean your house since it’s been 4 days and you’re in the same shirt and pants but hey you’ve pinned like 500 pins on pinterest. 

Apparently that is real life to some people. To a lot of people. Broaden your real life horizon. Relationships can be made online, but offline relationships can also be lost and broken from being online too. 

Prioritize.

The Sweaty Betties Cleanse

Upcoming is a cleanse from your favorite sweaty gals! We just finished the cleanse and here were MY results:

 

Never Give Up

It’s Not Real Life

While on a little adventure recently I heard someone state that my level of fitness wasn’t real life.  Hmm… I could have been offended. I could have said: yeah ok I’ve lived 1/4 of my life in the gym and not everyone does that. Instead, I thought to myself: Have any of the great people we quote lived a ‘real life’?  

What the hell is a real life anyway? What is this REAL they speak of?  Real as in, I spend 1/3 of my day sucking down soda and sitting my ass in front of my television escaping the boredom of my own life by watching some ridiculously silly reality tv show about getting my nails and toes done every week while spending $200 a month on starbucks? Yeah… ok that’s REAL.  Real boring.  Real wasteful. Real materialistic. And that just REALLY isn’t me.

Heroes. Think of your top heroes, the top people you love to quote and whose quotes move you?  Here are a few of mine: 
 Mother Teresa, Ghandi, Wayne Dyer, Buddha, Nelson Mandela, and the list goes on.

Now… I could be completely wrong but I don’t feel as if these people did just everyday things. They probably went out of their way to help others, they took time to enjoy the every day things they DID do.  

Anyway my point is that if you want to be remembered, maybe you should go out of your way, work harder and strive to be better in life. Don’t just settle for “real”.  People that want to leave a mark on the world will put forth more effort than others.

So in your passionately ‘doing’ of what you love, if others call you obsessed or tell you that you’re not living a real life- just keep in mind that great things require greater work and more time. Something you’re dedicated to is worth your energy. (In some cases there are extremes, you also have to live a life away from your passion once in awhile) 

Noq go be passionate.. shine, rust, whatever you want to do- make it last.

A Change Up

I’m keeping y’all up to date on my training. It’s been a little all over due to emotional stress due to life. Many of you know about this, not that I’ve never had stress but things have been a tad… different.  Depression can come on at different times; that being said, one of my amazing clients bought me Simple Abundance and I have to say it’s really helped. So if you’re a lady (it’s women-specific) pick it up from www.half.com and change your life!

 

Anyway, here is how I’ve been changing up what I’ve been doing:

*More functional movements
*STRENGTH- train to be strong
*2 Days on, 1 day off, 2 days on, 2 days off
*Cardio 4 days a week, 20 minutes minimum mainly stair stepper
*Circuit training, 4-7 rounds
*The Sweaty Betties February Challenge (join in!)
*Setting HEAVY WEIGHT goals (245# deadlift)
*Ass to the grass squats (helloooo swoop)

Here’s what my week normally looks like:

Monday: Shoulders/Tris/Minimum Chest
Tuesday: Deadlift DAY! (Back)
Wednesday: Off
Thursday: Circuit Training (metabolic)
Friday OR Saturday: LEGS baby!

 

I’m not extremely lean now but here are a couple updates! Stay inspired. 

When What You Love Isn’t Enough

Lets start off like this… it’s not that the love itself wasn’t sufficient. But what it became was not what you expected and it left you heart broken.

Sometimes dreams do that. You build up this perfect ‘how it might be’ in your mind and suddenly your goal is reached and instead of honest hard work to climb the ladder, there are those that drop their pants to get higher than you. And you’re not willing to do that. So you’re lost. You’re confused and most of all- broken hearted about what you fell in love with and were in love with for so long. 

The journey to find a new dream isn’t always an easy one. At least not for myself.  You lose yourself. Amongst the hundreds of hobbies you could pick up, none of them spark your interest like that first, giant dream.  All you want is to feel that fire you felt before- to know that you want it so badly you’ll skip out on other activities to work your ass off to have your hands around it.  

A voice.  You speak with yours in hopes to convince yourself and others that what you’re doing is what you love.  But is it?  It gives you unbelievable joy while you’re working- but the feeling of ‘something is missing’ is omnipresent. Or perhaps it’s just that you’re afraid to work so hard for something again only to have it crushed at your feet, along with all of the heart you poured into the belief in this goal. 

So how do we get past this? A wall built up in so short of time? What we have to remember is that walls may keep out the hurt, but they also keep out all of the joy as well.  If you’ve recently been let down, create something magic with what’s left.  Try your damnedest to get a goal that sparks your interest and fire again.  You can.  You will.  These moments are the ones that make you appreciate the better memories.  Don’t let it consume you.  Rise back up and get back to it.  The sun is shining, you have a presence that needs to be seen and felt to help those around you.  Believe it.

Soleone-Luxury at its Softest

What I thought was junk mail (believe me I get alot) turned out to be an amazing company ready to fly off the ground and hey would I like to try their clothes?  I’m so glad I did! The fabric is so smooth and if I could- I’d wear the hoodie every day! Check them out:

 

 

Get em here: http://soleone.net/ 

Becoming Who We Are Proud Of

Think back when you were younger. How exciting life could be. How great you wanted to be. An astronaut was the highest (literally) while being a life saving fireman or police officer was position that you wanted to stay at or above.  My point, is that some of us have settled.  We’ve become people we don’t know.  Life is confusing, we seem to lose our morals for what we think could be happiness or another notch on the totem pole.

Would your younger self be happy with that?  When you were young, you wanted greatness, sure you had been naive, but life’s jerks and complications are no reason to sacrifice your real beauty.  A person’s opinion of you should never become your reality.  Be who you are, a person you know you’d be happy with.  

You have big dreams? That’s great, that means you’re aiming high.  Just remember that with your extremely high goals, there will be people already there that may try to knock you down.  Not only that but there are people that will make you think you need to break a part of yourself to get to where you want to go.  When I say break, I mean morally, and THOSE situations are best walked away from.  Don’t lose passion for your goal. There’s a way to get there while having outstanding talent and keeping what you *should* value on together.  Be the whole package.

With each decision, remember what your younger self would think. You’ll make mistakes and mess up, that’s normal.  Don’t break that wonderful person you are underneath the make up, muscles or colored hair.  Stay beautiful (inside). 

Burn it & Rip it

My glutes HURT today, and I truly feel lucky to say that.  It’s been awhile since they’ve been that way with my whole Aubrie-needs-to-feel-sorry-for-herself moment where I didn’t really feel like training.  Now that I’m back I’m looking for pain- the good kind of course.  My buns are lacking (not greatly but still, everyone wants good ASSets) so I decided to hit a few moves that I knew would bust my butt.  I’d like to share them with you, follow along, print them off, write them down and hit that gym!

All exercises are 3 sets of 12-15 reps increasing weight on each set, 30 seconds rest between sets.

Single Leg Leg Press 50, 75, 90 #s
DB Split Squat 20#s all three sets
Lateral Step Up w/Kickback 15#s all three sets
Single Leg Smith Machine Squat 45, 65, 65# (I only did 10 reps here- owie!)
Machine Glute Kickback 35, 40, 45 #s
Walking Squat w/Band

Then I stretched it out, no cardio this day, I was beat!

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Have fun with it, always smile  

Men Respecting Women; Women Sticking it to Those that Don’t

Every girl will go through or has gone through it.

 

A guy gives you attention. You, being a girl, are nice. You might smile or even start up a conversation but where does that make their heads go?? To their groin.  Seriously it’s ridiculous.

 

But let me just tell you amazing young ladies something.. If you are in a relationship, and some bastard comes to you with this impressive list of jobs, that they can lift 9,000 friggin pounds and hey (insert inappropriate sexual question here) YOU SURE AS CRAP BETTER LAY DOWN THE LAW! Any as*hole that takes your relationship and tosses it into the garbage (which is what he’s doing) you better love your man enough to stick up for him and verbally cock punch the prick. No MAN will go after a lady that’s taken.  He’ll be respectful.  And I realize that in stories and movies this isn’t how it may be but you’re honestly going to feel ELATED once you stick up for something you believe in.. even if you believED in it before, it’s worth fighting for.

 

And for you lovely men that don’t act like giant genitals on feet, a big thank you to you. For being respectful amazing people that I can cyber high five instead of cock punch.

 

No jerk that flaunts his accomplishments then disrespects you can offer more than the man beside you (unless the man beside you hits you or disrespects you some other way.)

 

Well then. Lets all be amazing!