Everyday wellness Hero's - My inspirations 5

Teenage years only playing softball

Improper eating in my teens

When you are young and you think you are in love, you sometimes let those people who claim to love you walk all over you and take advantage of you. You let these people make you feel like you are worthless and don't deserve better. You let them critique your body and make you feel like you are fat and ugly. You begin to believe every little negative thing they say to you about yourself. You become depressed and hardly anything makes you happy. 

One year before I started my health and fitness journey 

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Don't have to be perfect. Just have to start. We all have the seed of greatness breathed inside. Time to sprout.

You become what you repeatedly do.

I've had some discussions recently that pretty much ended with people saying the following.

"One person can't make a significant difference in reality, that's wishful thinking." They also said the world and it's people really don't want better. I disagreed...strongly.  Recently I've heard many people express fear about the future, government control on their lives, and pretty much living in chaotically violent desperation where quiet desperation once existed.

Do it anyway.

Pepper - A Hero from my perspective

When someone has your back, even when the front is all wack...keep em for life.

Pepper and I at her birthday.

Pepper organised my birthday with my special people

I am often told by "tiny tot Pepper" that I talk to long so I will make this short and sweet.

Tiny Tot Pepper...for real. Too cute.

I would take a bullet for few people in my world. Pepper is one of them. 3 years ago she shyly excused her way into my life and helped make my company's, missions and purpose work. At that time she was often a very sickly young girl. I experienced her having severe allergies and other health issues for many months out of the year. In spite of that I saw her in her mid twenties work hard to increase her health so that she eventually even run a 16 km obstacle course. She doesn't believe the impact that she has on  my life and my family. But I am dedicated to spend my life making sure she knows.

Always being there for someone is the only thing that feels better than when someone is always there for you

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Everything happens for a reason. I have been trying to post this for a few days but for some reason the system wouldn't allow. Then on her "champagne birthday" it finally posts.

Happy Birthday Pepper!

Meeting Pepper was a challenge to say the least from the beginning but fate has a way of always coming in first. So many things have happened in the years I've known Pepper. (Only she could get away with calling me a fruit I despise.) But that's just it. Nothing is typical with her and if your world intersects with hers' then your life will forever be impacted. I wish you could see the person she was, who she is and where she is going like I do. Inspiration is more empowering when those who think they can't and are told they can't...do. That is what I hope to share with you. We are often brainwashed into a failure or self destructive mindset. With the right focus, will to hold on and someone to believe in you anything is possible. I believe in Pepper...not just because she believes in me but because like few people, she did so when there was little reason to. Here is her story.

“You don’t need to be GREAT to start but you have to START to be great.” 

As a person with low self esteem and a lack of confidence, that statement is an eye roller. I never thought of myself as being capable of good let alone great. I never had the courage to be bold or step out of my comfort zone. It was all new to me when I met Banana. He pushed me beyond my limits and showed me that thriving and bettering myself is one thing I need to do for me.

 “YOU have to believe in yourself because if you don’t, then NO ONE else will.”

Gloria - A Hero from my perspective

Always there for her family...always making something out of nothing!

Rare relaxed moment in Hawaii.

I almost don't know where to begin. I think many couples take their spouse for granted much less see the hero in them. On the positive...It is easy for me now to see the hero in Gloria. The down side is that it took  so long and required so much suffering and sacrifice in order to recognize it. But isn't that the way life goes!

We're talking about wellness Hero's and to many it would seem that I was the wellness hero in my family. Not so...

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Meet Gloria,

 

 

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When I was in High School I went to a boarding academy. After my first year there I gained 25lbs going from 105 lbs to 130 lbs. Worst shape of my life!

 

Ellen - A Hero from my perspective-backstage

Ellen said we've known each other since about 16 years of age. That sounds so much better than the quarter century that I have considered Ellen as one of my best friends. She also happens to be one of the smartest people I know. I can talk to her about anything and everything. She was the only person that could successfully make me drive 5km under the speed limit the entire way home from school which took forever. At least I had her company to calm the boredom. That was a quarter century ago.

 

 

 

 

Training for The Spartan/Warrior Dash