15 Ways to Live a Happier Life…
Monday, 21 May 2012
A good friend of mine recently sent me this great article. I was very moved by it and thought I would share it with my readers. It is the top 15 Things you should give up in order to be happy. We ultimately all want to be happy, but due to our situations, thought patterns,
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Happy Mother’s Day!
Friday, 11 May 2012
A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends who rejoice with us in our sunshine desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the
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Get Rid of the Excuses!
Wednesday, 09 May 2012
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qX9FSZJu448&sns=em] My yoga instructor sent me this inspirational video of a former army veteran who was injured in combat and left barely able to walk. He was overweight and had no hope until he gained a “no excuse” mindset and set out to make his life better. He found yoga and over the course of
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Check and Re-Check Your Goals
Friday, 27 April 2012
You will hear my husband and I talk about goal-setting and goal-seeking A LOT (especially if you are a member at 818 or a personal client of ours)! Goals are powerful and need to be revisited often (especially within the CrossFit world). The most important steps are writing the goals that you want and in the time
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Top 5 Great and Not So Great Moments in CrossFit
Monday, 23 April 2012
I found this really great blog on the 5 greatest and worst moments in My CrossFit World. Not only is this a really good exercise to see how much Crossfit impacts your life on a daily basis, It is a great way to track your milestones i.e doing this when you first start Crossfit and
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It’s Not Another Manic Monday….
Monday, 16 April 2012
For most of us the dreaded Mondays will be enough to turn our happy Sunday moods into sour ones, but here are a few ways to turn those frowns upside down! Here are 8 helpful ways to put you in a better mood 1. Kill them with kindness Remember the lesson you teach your kids
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Top Ten Things You Can Learn From Doing CrossFit….
Friday, 13 April 2012
This is such a great post about how CrossFit not only changes you physically, but emotionally, and mentally as well! CrossFit has changed my life for the better in so many ways and these 10 items were many of the reasons why! Don’t Make My Mistakes: The 10 Things I’ve Learned From Doing Crossfit By
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Is It Luck or Pure Determination?
Wednesday, 11 April 2012
I find myself fascinated with “why” people are in the positions they are in. For example was Kobe Bryant born with this “God-Given” talent or did he work his butt off day in and day out to become KOBE….? Malcolm Gladwell wrote a great Book in 2008 with a theory that you can become a master at anything by doing it for
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Strong is the New Skinny….
Friday, 30 March 2012
For many of us we started to look at the food that we ate or the body that we had when we hit puberty. I know for me, I never really thought about it until I was about 13 and started to think I was “fat”. I wasn’t even close, but I was not a
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Can Music Affect Your Workout?
Monday, 19 March 2012
Music Really Helps These 818’ers Get Through 150 Wallballs! I have always been a HUGE fan of music in my workouts! A good beat can make everything better. When a workout is hard, music makes you push through, when you want to quit, you can focus on the beat and keep going. Over the years
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