Category: failure
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Yesterday: Friend or Foe
Life offers an endless range of opportunities for success and failure, courage and cowardice, and survival and victimization. Some experiences are carried from one juncture to the next and influence latter outcomes, but other experiences are better left behind in a corner of our memory which has no control over our tomorrow. Perhaps it is a…
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Resolution Rehash
New year resolutions always get me thinking. Mainly because they are usually the same…rather it is to lose weight, keep better records or stay in touch, they are a dime a dozen and stick like Velcro on a potato. December is a month spent riding on the pretense that in January “things are changing.” The…
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Overcome Loss
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in comeback, decisions, dedication, dreams, failure, God’s plan, hope, LeslieRae, LeslieRae decisions, loss, love, success, worryPain grips dreams and hopes until the life is gone and the only thing that is left is a memory of what could have been. I don’t always make good decisions, but I make the best ones I can, and I live with each. Regret lurks around every corner beckoning be back, beckoning blame, beckoning…
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Looking to lose weight?
Looking to lose weight?Tired of over dosing on diet pills? The solution seems easy: cut calories and lose the weight. However, it sounds way easier than it is. Every part of you is in to the idea except your stomach. Researchers say that the reason your stomach protests, and you feel like you can eat…
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Have goals, but have a plan
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in champion, competing, decisions, dedication, diet, dreams, failure, fat, fitness, God’s plan, hope, ifbb, New Year Resolution, success, weight lossOne of the draw backs of the American marketplace is that we are inundated with the unlikely. We are romanced by lives and looks and careers that most of us will never have. Chances are you will not be a supermodel, NBA star, an Olympian or make the Forbes list. Often we hear about Cinderella…
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Leaning Out for Your First Show?
Losing fat is difficult enough under regular conditions, but trying to lose enough to step on a figure/bikini stage is a whole other situation. It is often overwhelming for first time competitors but interestingly enough, can get harder from show to show. It can get harder for a couple of reasons. If you dieted too…
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Are Your Healthy Foods Packing on Pounds?
One of the top misconceptions of people who are trying to lose fat is that all they need to worry about is eating healthy foods. This is a train of thought that can not only sabotage your fat loss, but end up packing on excess weight instead. Getting trapped in the “it’s diet” mind set…
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Road Blocks: Learning How to Bend
Life offers a series of twists and turns that seem unrelated and like directionless road blocks. It never fails, when everything is going great, something happens to ripple the calm waters. We often blame the moment on “it figures” or “this is my luck” type references. But the truth is, not many people experience many…
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Training is a process, not an event
The reality is that people who want to make a dramatic change to their body, did not get into their current state from an hour every other day for three weeks. So working out for an hour every other day for three weeks is not going to ‘fix’ the problem. This news may be discouraging,…
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The Next Leaf
Having a plan is only successful if it is flexible. There are few and far between that play out like planned. Glitches and detours are so common, they are expected; you have to know how to deal with them when they arise. You may not always know what to do, or do the right thing,…