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Monday Motivation - Be Useful!
The picture is of my daughter, Ariana. I have three daughters: Kaeli (18), Avery (16), and Ariana (8). Kaeli loves to swim, Avery loves to play water polo, and Ariana loves to be eight years old. She loves to watch TV, play computer games, and (generally speaking) be useless.
Monday Motivation - Measure the Milestones
This weekend marked graduation weekend for my senior at Jordan High School. We had a great time celebrating her athletic, academic, and personal accomplishments over the past eighteen years. Plenty of her friends and adults who played a role in shaping the young woman she has become came to our house to celebrate. Celesta and I are very proud of Kaeli.
Motivation Monday - Progress Is Progress
There are ebbs and flows in life. Sometimes we are busy, especially this time of year. Kids are graduating college, high school, or maybe even kindergarten! Events are being celebrated, like dance recitals, musical performances, and spring sports championships.
Maybe you are out of your normal routine, or maybe you are looking to get into a new routine as summer approaches.
Monday Motivation - Some Days Are Bad Days
Some days are bad days. Of course, we prefer our days to be good or even great, but such is life.
In my chemistry career, every brand-new chemist would have a bad day about three months after starting in the laboratory. I would hear a glass flask or beaker fall and shatter. It's not a nig deal and is a part of working in a lab. But then, about an hour later, I would hear another glass flask or beaker shatter... And then a third sound of shattered glass.
Monday Motivation - Shaping The Bonsai
Growing a bonsai tree was popular when I was a kid, probably because cool Mr. Miyagi from The Karate Kid cared for a bonsai tree.
Monday (or Wednesday!) Motivation - Earn A Badge
This Saturday, we will run and raise money for a wonderful and local Fulshear charity: Annabelle's Amazing Graces. You can learn more and register here: Doing More For Others.
Monday Motivation - Show up... People Need You!
Later today, we will have multiple athletes receive an email from CrossFit Headquarters that they have made it past the CrossFit Open and into the Quarterfinals. To move on to the Semifinals, these athletes must perform 4-5 workouts from April 17-22. From April 17-22, our normal class programming will be these required workouts.
Monday Motivation - This Saturday... Minute to Win It!
Congratulations to everyone who completed the last CrossFit Open workout 24.3! After three weeks of workouts, every team led one week of scoring. Team GOLD led the first week with thirteen (13) participants, Team RED led the second week with eighteen (18), and Team BLUE led the third week with eleven (11) participants. Someone with a watchful eye may notice that Team RED won week 2. My email from last incorrectly identified the wrong team as the winner. Team RED won last week.
Monday Motivation - Gratitude and Solutions
Today's email is a day late because I drove my family to a Florida beach for eleven hours. If you know me and Celesta well, you know we did not waste this opportunity. We listened to a couple of books. One of the books was "The No Complaining Rule" by Jon Gordon. There are two types of complaints: useless and useful.
Monday Motivation: We Care (Because You Care)
Do you realize you have a team of coaches who dedicate their lives to serving you as best as possible?
My objective for this team is to "Deliver a personalized experience based on the Five Love Languages to everyone on the Enneagram." Next week, I will lead them through a 10-week course on how to serve you best no matter where your personality falls on the Enneagram scale.
Monday Motivation - Counting Our Blessings
Happy Monday, Blue Eagle!
Let us count our blessings as we enter this Christmas and holiday season.
Happiness is relative. It can be easy to be unhappy when we compare what we don't have to what others do have: a bigger house, a fancier car, or more parties to attend.
But we can also compare our lives to how people lived in the past.
Monday Motivation - Are Your Worries & Complaints Serving You?
Yesterday afternoon, the final four college football teams, who will play for the national title, were announced. Florida State was left out of the final four despite going undefeated and winning their conference championship. The University of Georgia was left out even though they have lost only once in their last thirty games.
Monday Motivation - Hope Will Not Change Your Life, but Habits Will
We often find solace in the comforting embrace of hope. It's the flickering light at the end of a dark tunnel, the whisper of better days to come. However, hope, while an essential motivator, remains a passive force, unable to bring about tangible change.
Motivation Monday - Who Are You Influencing?
This weekend, Celesta was out of town, so I took my three daughters to watch my oldest swim at a meet in The Woodlands. We drove an hour, dropped off Kaeli, then I spent an hour with my two youngest for them to eat an early dinner. After they ate, we went to the natatorium to watch Kaeli swim, which took about another hour. When Kaeli was changed and dry, we went to a restaurant for her and me to eat dinner. Our dinner took another hour.
Forgive yourself. Keep moving forward
My 15-year-old daughter had her end-of-season water polo tournament this weekend in Dallas. Her coach is a former Olympic water polo player and still represents the USA in the over-35 water polo tournaments all over the world.
Her #1 most important piece of advice is mental: get over your mistakes quickly and move on!
Motivation Monday - Filling Your Feed
I write these Motivation Monday emails to encourage you as you start your week. I often need motivation myself... or at least reminders that life is not supposed to be rainbows and unicorns every day.
Monday Motivation - Thank You for Your Generosity!
This past Saturday, we celebrated life and raised money for a wonderful organization called Stuff the Sleigh. Thanks to your generosity, we raised almost $3,700. This money will go to helping kids with cancer and their families.
Monday Motivation - Be a Person Who Gives
This Saturday, August 19, at 9 AM, we will be hosting a fundraiser supporting the local charity, Stuff the Sleigh. This is the perfect opportunity to have fun with other members, friends, family, and neighbors. Read our blog post to learn more and get registered.
Monday Motivation - What's Your "Why?"
Here are my Why's...
I work to provide a place that helps people live longer, happier, and healthier lives in a world of chronic diseases (obesity, heart disease, and cancer) in Fulshear, Katy, and Brookshire.
I work to provide my community with a place that feels welcoming in a world that tries to divide us.
I work to show my kids you can be the change other people need in their lives.
What is your why?
Monday Motivation - Following the Process
Some days are hard days. Hards days when the results we are getting don't meet our expectations. On these days, I think of this quote, "Quitters quit while winners show grit."
Grit is continuing to follow the process even when the end results are not yet what we want them to be. I follow Justin Su'a, psychologist and head mental trainer for several sports teams, on Instagram. He also has an amazing podcast called "Increase Your Impact," with episodes that are only a couple of minutes long.