New Year- New You... UGH!!! I REALLY Have A Problem With This And You Can Read Why!

As you know, fitness is my business.  I love it, I sell it, I practice it, I share it.  However, there is always this fine line that I think about though.  Yes, I want to create change in people's lives.  Yes, I want people to transform their bodies.  Yes, I want people, myself included, to be lean and healthy and strong.  

But hidden within all of this, is the message is that we are not good enough. That we need to work hard to change ourselves... and then, and only then will we be happy and therefore, better.  New Year's resolutions are the same. Right now, New Year, New You is my biggest peeve.  It tell us that we are not good, so we better make up our minds to change and then we will be better.  But the more people I meet, the more people that work out at Crank It Up, the more apparent it is to me that we are all so AMAZING!  That we are all BEAUTIFUL in our own right.  That we possess such amazing qualities.  It is not that we need to change who and what we are, we just need to work on staying as awesome as we can.  We need to move to be healthy, not skinny.  We need to sweat to work our hearts and lungs, not to be a size 0.  We want to PRESERVE our qualities and work on LONGEVITY and GOOD HEALTH... on mobility and functionality... on having a POSITIVE outlook, because, as we all know, life throws some pretty big curve balls our way! Let's go for being the best US that we can be at our jobs, with our families and with others!  We are a work in progress and the base of that work is just that.  It's US. It's YOU.  It's ME.  We have been given certain gifts in our lives, like the gift of mobility... like the gift of drive..  like the gift of desire.  Let's be grateful for these gifts and USE THEM TO OUR ADVANTAGE!  

Don't ignore your gifts, use them.

So, instead of making the same unrealistic resolutions that we seem to do every year, let's concentrate on celebrating our gifts and in turn, the most positive of changes can only occur!  

I am so proud of each of you and I can't wait to see how much we obtain in 2018! (Two Thousand Great-Teen)