I had to share this, as I couldn’t have said it better myself, its from an interview by one of my beautiful clients from 2011 and I just wanted to share:
Q. If another woman told you she wanted to start training, what is the one piece of advice you would most want to give her?
A. “Role models are wonderful and a great resource, but I believe that true, long lasting motivation is not something someone else can give you or you can “find”(now, where did I put that motivation again?).
You have to make it happen, for yourself, on purpose.
Don’t passively wait for it to come along.
Take control.
You create your own motivation when you stop yourself from eating garbage when everyone else is or no one else is looking.
You create it when you take no excuses and hit the gym no matter what because champions don’t sleep through their workout.
You create it when you truly believe that you are an athlete and a winner, despite what everyone else says, thinks or does.
I think the biggest problems people have in getting started are in realizing that someone else isn’t going to do it for them and actually believing that they are worth the effort.”
START DATE: Dec 10, 2009 163 lbs. END DATE: June 6, 2010 122 lbs.
WOW. Powerful stuff. I saw this woman (who is a single-mother of a teen) gain control of her life, her health, ended up setting goals for herself (competing and running FULL marathons) and was truly inspired.
I always say, my clients truly inspire me and this is why.
If you’d like to read the rest of the article, you can find it here:
http://promotingwomen.blogspot.com/2011/05/korie-maxfield-interview.html
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