I Will

One of my great friends, Rachel Bergman http://www.wholefit.org/, an elite athlete in her own right and personal trainer extraordinaire of Chesterfield, MO challenged her bootcampers to define the WHY behind their fitness goals. This is what one camper wrote in response:

“WHY am I doing the hard things- getting up early, working out, planning meals, cooking, eating well, etc.?

Because I want my life with food and weight to change. I want them to be elements in my life instead of defining the life I have. I want to stop being so focused on my pants size, how I compare to other women and what someone else thinks about the way I look. I want to be happy with me, to know I am strong, healthy and beautiful- no matter the tag # in my jeans, no matter what society screams a woman should look like or weigh, despite the opposing images of the Hollywood starlets. In this process, I want to learn to be okay with me.”

The powerful message she conveys here is KNOWING that she is DESERVING of the benefits that come with putting her wishes to feel good into actions and then turning those actions into daily habits. She has a DESIRE to live life at a higher level than spending days WORRYING about what she could or should be.  Instead she has DECIDED to FOCUS on being what she was meant to be in all areas of her life—thereby creating BALANCE which, in turn, lends itself to the natural side effect of inner PEACE. We are ENOUGH—let’s live like we KNOW it!