MOTIVATION

Motivation, such an interesting word. The definition of motivation is to give reason, incentive, enthusiasm, or interest that causes a specific action or certain behavior. Motivation is present in every life function. Simple acts such as eating are motivated by hunger. Education is motivated by desire for knowledge. Motivators can be anything from reward to coercion. Basically no situation is without some form of motivation. As far as being motivated to swim, bike, run at such committed levels there are many things that bring me motivation, a few include; inspiring words, someone telling me I cannot, desire to be better, other athletes, pictures, movies, my brothers fighting for our freedom, simply motivation is found when we seek it. What ever it may be that brings you motivation remember it, write it down, post it up, or watch. Check out this video perhaps it may inspire some motivation.
http://articlescollections.com/awesome-versus-sports-montage-music-by-explosions-in-the-sky/

Mix it Up!!!

How often in life do we get set in our ways and do the same thing hour after hour, day after day, week after week, month after month, and year after year? For some there is comfort in knowing what is in store day to day, but it is in the unknown where we find the greatest adventure. With this in mind I set off to mix up the monotony of training and did a little altitude run and bike. Saturday morning found me up a Bogus Basin setting off for a little run on the snowshoe and cross-country skiing trails. So for 45 minutes a friend and I ran/jogged around on such trails to mix up our training from the same old same old, this helps keep training exciting and fun, instead of doing the same thing over and over. Next, my friend dropped me off(thanks Mariah) so that I could spend a few hours on the mounain bike, navigating over new terrain and finding my way back home in Boise. In the pictures you can see the fun on my face along with the powerbar and fruit and nut bar mom made (thanks mom), with a minor scare from what I thought was a rattlesnake. Next time there seems to be too much "same old: in your life "mix it up" with something new, that way when someone asks "what have you been up to?" Your response will go from "Oh just the same old stuff", to .................

SIMPLICITY

Simplicity is being simple. It is a property, condition, or quality which things can be judged to have, according to wikipedia. This past weekend was spent up in beautiful Stanley, Id. Devoting time to work more on my skills of the simplistic lifestyle: Wake up eat, bike, run, swim, repeat. Pretty much each day was devoted to organizing my thoughts and simplistically living completely stress free. Of course it is simple to live so simply in such an awe inspiring setting, as pictures show. Living the dream! When there are no distractions in our lives it seems as though we are set free to live how we were intended to live since the begining of time. Simply, just living. Taking notice each and everyday to the beauty which surrounds me puts my mind at ease and helps me to recalibrate so to speak. Inspiring one to let go of doubt, cast away all fears and just go for that which we dream.

Choices and Decisions

Throughout life we as human beings are faced with CHOICES AND DECISIONS. The difference being CHOICES we make everday, including what to wear or not wear for that matter, what to eat, when to wake up, whether to shower, shave, brush your teeth, and so on. DECISIONS on the other hand are necessarily not made everyday, but are always life changing and may include; who to marry, what dreams to pursue, what job to work, to have kids or not, where to live, get my drift. You see decisions effect our life as a whole, and although choices may play some role in the decision more than likely choices do not effect us as much. Now that we have made such clear go and make the right choice, or decision, or whatever you choose, you decide! Check out these lyrics from Skinred

At first you don't succeed
Tried and tried again
Worked your hands to bleed
Don’t give up my friendWell in this game called life you got to keep on trying
Don’t make no body push you down and give you pure problem
OI! Life it is for living not for aggravation
When their getting under your skin and trying to cause you tension
You tell them, inside this flesh nuff ah we jusa suffer
And influences they will come take we over
1 think in life I and I must remember
Stand up for something and you’ll hear the oppressor singing

You got to make up your mind
Life, Choices and Decisions
You got to make up your mind
Life, Choices and Decisions
Where do we go there are so many signs
Life, Choices and Decisions
You got to make up your mind
Life, Choices and Decisions

Well well at first you don’t smoke weed but now you’re hooked on smack
You look back over your life and you wish you could go back
Rewind reject it and start it again
You know you wouldn’t end up with this juxtaposition
Right! Inside this flesh nuff ah we jusa suffer
And influences they will come take we over
1 think in life I and I must remember
Stand up for something and you’ll hear the oppressor singing

To follow or to lead
Or do you just pretend?
To pause or to proceed
The choice is yours my friend

Which way do you go? Where you gunner go? I do not know! You see,
Life is one big road with lots of signs, surely you’ll find
You got to make up your mind to face rality all the time
Many ah problem many ah joy
Never you try to take life for a toy
Some doing good lord some doing bad
All of these choices are driving me
Mad, So mad, driving me mad, driving me mad, driving me mad, driving me mad

Life, Choices and Decisions, Life, Choices and Decisions
Life, Choices and Decisions
Life life life life, choose life

Caged Inside

Running past the local zoo the other morning, the sound of a lions roar echoed from inside. This sent my mind a drift into the wonders of what it would be like to be an animal caged, trapped in not able to get out and live a free life. Reflecting upon such I realized that we as human beings live life very much inside of a cage at times. Roaring we may, but nothing can make us fell the freedom of being free. Although we do not necessarily have bars surrounding our environment other things take there places. Deadlines, bills, we all have an agenda, and at times they seem to be the weight of the world on our shoulders. You see there is that which will set us free and we have the decision each and everyday to live life in such a manner. Do not let this world cage you in, go out and live today!!

Give it your All!!

How often in Life do we go through the motions and just do enough to get by? A difficult yet important question we must ask ourselves from time to time. Did I do my best today? When we wake up in the morning do we go with intention? Questions that seem to haunt my mind today. Live with a purpose and pursue your dreams I say, let knowbody keep you from that which you want for there are all to many people in this life who seem to tell us what we cannot do, yet very few who will encourage us to go forth into the unknown and pursue that which we dare to dream. Ask yourself are you giving life all you got or are you just getting through the days? For when the end of the day comes can we look back and say that all was spent and we gave it our all to get across that line giving the day purpose.

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