We were made out of dust and to dust we will return...BUT WAIT! Why live a life just waiting to turn back into dust?

Just stop and look at people (don't stare) just observe what do you see?

 

I see people of all shapes and sizes all going through life doing the same old things, saying the same old sayings, being content with the same old ins and outs of daily life.

 

It's so true what Solomon says about "there is nothing new under the sun", there truly isn't. We were made out of dust and to dust we will return...BUT WAIT! Why live a life just

waiting to turn back into dust? I don't know about you but I think God created amazing creatures all over this earth but mankind us, We were made in HIS image a perfect image, no we aren't perfect we won't be perfectly complete until we reach eternity with Jesus. But I'm OK with being Perfectly Incomplete living my life not content to live average to be going along with the Flow I want to swim up stream to be different to be a light that shines for Him.

Think about what you are drawn to, are you drawn to boring, mean, unhappy and dark situations? do those images and feelings get your attention and make you want to be more like that?

I'm not sure about you but I'm drawn to light, happiness, laughing and fun, to the thought of there is more to this world and I want to living a journey outside the box of normal.

If I am drawn to those things I hope others are too.

I want others to look at me and see me the real me maybe some are observing my life and actions and yes I also know not everyone cares to see me or observe me that's OK! God does! (I'm sure some have said more bad than good about me, because I've been terrible in my past, self inflicted hurt and pain so yes, I'm not perfect and I don't have all the answers but I pray that making daily changes to seek His will would cause others to say "she serves God in all she does" and second my mission is for others to be inspired to be ok with being incomplete, but feel the desire to be and do more to live the life filled with light and happiness and knowing we have a great future in eternity, but until we reach our final destination and I pray you have placed your trust and hope in our Savior Jesus Christ to reach heaven's beautiful shores and only then be completely perfect. I pray you stop and observe you and your actions and words are you running the day just to get by and return to dust one day or are you living throughout the day to Go to bed with great satisfaction in shining a light of hope, happiness and Him.

 

I've said this before not everything is about external appearances you can look like you are happy and living a fantastic life but I pray you examine your heart, your actions and your thoughts and ask Him to help you clear those before you re-examine your external. Your heart matters most to Him my friend.

 

Have a blessed day!

 

Joy

You never go back to the Starting line - Push to the Finish line (Then it's time to RESTART) #21DFX

Have you said this to yourself  "I'll just start OVER on Monday"

 "I missed a day or two working out I guess this doesn't work for me" or  "I ate bad yesterday, it was a party so, forget it I'll just wait until Monday and start over"

This was what we, my hubby and I contemplated over our weekend camping trip.

This was our thought Sunday after not pressing play. TRUTH, We didn't miss our Sunday workout, we choose to not do it, we had time, we had space, we had everything we needed and we chose not to do it. So yes, naturally we would say I guess we will just start over tomorrow right? well I said no! We will continue tomorrow day 8 Why? because you do not see or feel change without challenges and you do not reach your goal or your destination if you keep turning back to reset at the start line, you continue running everyday, you can stop off at the medical tent, the water station but you don't turn around, you continue going and pushing to the finish line. Our #21DFX is more than 21 days for me it's race after race where I will continually be better, beat my own records and challenge myself to push, to focus to see the me I want looking back at me in the mirror.
We Don't go back to the Start we push to the Finish line celebrate the accomplishment and then Restart our race again the next day. It's a lifestyle of training, of fueling your body and enjoying your progress each time.

Our Nutrition wasn't hard to stick with away, we didn't pack junk snacks, when you want chips if you only have apples and almonds guess what that's what you eat. When you bring your approved meals and opt out of restaurants you eat your own healthy cooking. But, I'm a sucker for enjoying life and eating food I LOVE food I love the healthy salads, berries, apples and goat cheese to a point of too much of a good thing is bad. Yes, I ate too many containers this weekend so I was thinking I eat when I have time of my hands I eat a bite here and a bite there. Do I START over? No I learn to Think before I eat and keep track using my app don't let a good time sabotage my results.

This is a learning curve for me again, each program is a challenge, with new moves... remember the resistance bands that is a work in progress, even trying new foods and new portions, but that's what changes me to be better, a challenge can either change you for the better or keep defeating you and sending your back to the Start line.

I have a choice to Start over or to Press on and Monday we chose to press on and do better this week and even better the in the following weeks because we are not doing this short term we are running a race of life a healthy life filled with starts and finishes and lots of celebrations for learning, growing and stretching our boundaries.

I love being on this journey with my Hubby the support is great along with the competition in the gym and the victories of saying no to junk food together.

Do you want to start racing toward the finish line? are you tired of Starting over are you ready to celebrate your success?

Let's set you on a path to your own finish line! contact me today if you are ready to race...  http://goo.gl/forms/bpLJv3utCi

JoyForFitness
Have a Blessed Day!

We made it a family thing 

Habits = lifestyle good or bad you do get to choose

Day 7 already! Time to Excel

Day 7 already! Time to Excel

God didn't create us to be average we were created to excel Eph. 1:4

I feel 21 days honestly comes and goes faster than anything. I feel it's a blink of an eye from being focused on getting started day 1 and then already a week into it.

Fitness: Yes, I'm super sore from the workouts, learning new moves and using the resistance bands has been a challenge but I'll see results for sure.

Nutrition: I really love the competition plan I thought having more reds to eat was going to be hard but it's not just more focused on eating schedule and prepping. Next week I'll plan to do more of the competition eating plan and less of the extreme plan to test my control and my bad snacking habits.

It's so important on an journey to take it one day at a time but trust me if and when you skip that 1 day exercise, 1 day if choosing healthy foods and that one morning of devotions; one day can lead to 2 and before you know it you are back on day 1.

You are worth more than always starting over, personal and of physical growth comes from sowing seeds and nurturing them daily, tending to body, mind & soul everyday so you will indeed have a harvest it's your life, your family, your body and it takes effort. But He thought I was worth it and in return I'm offering Him my life, my body, my mind I'm a Made to be and do more than sit and indulge in earth's mundane pleasures.

Last week I felt heartbroken, but My heart has calmed from a few days ago. I'm learning that I am ok feeling that I'm meant for more, to live beyond my wildest dreams not mindlessly but fully focused on eternity and that as long as my heart and mind are away looking for His fulfillment that's just fine. I may never see all the ideas I have in my head come to life, but spending time camping with my family this weekend has affirmed my desire to provide a loving, trusting, disciplined yet fully dependent on Him environment for my children.

I'm never going to know the full erect of His plan for my life but I do feel I'm headed in the right direction.

How's your week going? Are you caring for His Masterpiece?

Joy


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God says "Give me your whole heart"

Hi friends, do you ever wake up and feel this world is big and scary and you feel so incredibly small and frail and hopeless?

I know, I've been there many times, today might just be one of those days I feel like Solomon having all the blessings in the world and I'm still stuck searching for the meaning of it all. 

I pray and trust His promises for my life and for the failures I've face and continue going through. It just keeps me looking up, yes I yell, I get frustrated with Him and ask why He's not giving me what I want now! 

But then He sends me a simple "wink" the I see you my child stay strong and take courage in My Word and my promise to fulfill the desires of your heart, but first give me your whole heart" 

I've wanted to throw in the towel so many times for all of this Joyforfitness coaching & motivational stuff because I'm week my feelings take over to say no one cares, no one needs me to share or offer help who do I think I am? I'm a dime a dozen, pea pole want quick results for happiness not life commitments. Isn't this what   I'm saying I'm searching for "I want true happiness now I'm just like everyone else."How can Iead others if I'm still searching?

I'm not meant to be this person although I feel in my heart I am my whole life has been leading me here to this today but the hurt, the rejection, the daily boring task that take me from day seem unending at times the constant no the I'll just visit and watch answer, which makes my temper flair for the consequences of avoiding the elephant in the room...our health (you have no idea the words, the quotes, the yelling I hold back when excuses fill my inbox, I call it my Jillian M. from the Biggest looser comes out of me) I'm THAT passionate and emotionally  involved friends which is why when I feel I've failed I want to run the other way and then the WINK comes and I'm reminded my mission is complete when I share Him, when I shine so bright the only thing others can see is Him in me. I'm struggling today to shine bright and I wanted to share my thoughts because I haven't yet felt complete I'm still searching but each day I'm trying my best to allow myself to give Him my whole heart to truly submit. It's the hardest thing for me. 
Today I will not run and hide I will overcome with His help.

Yes it's day 2 of #21DFX but not one thing of that matters I know I pressed play I know it was hard and I'm sore I ate super healthy clean food.  But today my heart needs a little less fitness and a lot more Jesus. 

Joy 

Day 1: Thoughts, Prayers, Fitness and Cravings - Loving His Masterpiece

Day 1: Thoughts, Prayers and Cravings

OK, so I made it through my first day of competition eating plan and waking up at 5:25am to press play, Oh my goodness I don't know but I bet you can relate tell me I can't have something and I think about it all day long. I was not hungry, but my kids have left over Valentines hearts with chocolate candy in them I literally wanted to toss them out because I wanted them so badly, but honestly I didn't my mind thought I deserved just 1 right! Mind over Matter for sure.

My devotion today was focused on Solomon in Ecclesiastes 1:12 - 2:11 searching for more that he had, a man full of wisdom and treasures untold, anything He wanted he had except that one thing the thing that made everything else in his life feel empty and lonely. To look around and continually seek something you can't see but earn for greatly makes one live in that place of here but not here, my mind is reaching and thinking of more of the empty space that is inside I know who wants to fill it but I am still searching and I feel I need to seek more to be more and to do more I feel I was made for more. I guess my question is what will truly fill this space of more and will I be satisfied when I find that thing I'm looking for or is it really nothing and I should stop trying.

My prayer: Lord, I want to seek You in all things my desire is to understand and be thankful that everything is a blessing from You to show your love to me and as I continue to seek and search for something more my prayer is that I do not place my hope or future in my work, money, others, positions or my surroundings but I continually seek You and follow Your will that I will find true happiness in You.

Fitness: Today was ok it was a Plyo with weights day my legs hurt my head lightheaded but I made it through because I'm determined to push past excuses, for too long I just go through motions of most everything thinking of the next thing on the list. My goal is to focus on my muscles, my heart, my mind and truly see our cool God's creation is and how much I limited myself due to my thoughts and whispers of "I Can't"

Nutrition: I touched on this earlier, I thought it would be harder than it was I understood it was a mind over matter. When I saw something I would have normally grabbed and taken a bite or I drank more water  and when I was hungry I ate my portioned containers. I felt good I felt energized all day and I was proud that not one thing was off even on day 1. I know I have 20 more days of this and it will test me but I also know this is help me CRAVE HIM more and the desire to grab things my body doesn't want nor need will be replaced with HIM. Cravings? No! Desires yes! we don't tell ourselves NO enough, do you agree?


I do like this idea of pushing past all of my excuses and limitations that I place on myself and I look forward to taking this one day at a day #21DFE 

JoyforFitness' journey on 21 Day Fix Extreme

Hello Friends,

I thought I would go back to my blogging roots and blog my way through the 21 Day Fix Extreme

This is not just to show the process of fitness and nutrition or before and afters, I want to share my thoughts and devotions during this journey, to push past the excuses and the negative thoughts that arise in my head, To overcome the constant desire to eat because I see food and also the mindless action of eating and realizing the habits I've created and also the power to tell myself to put the food down.

I know I need more I want to have a CRAVING for Jesus and less craving for food so I'm paring this up and I'm working on His Masterpiece, Me.

The next 21 days I'm focused on yes completing the fitness portion and yes sticking to the extreme / competition plan. But to also share my thoughts about my heart , my mind, as I read through 31 Days To Happiness by David Jeremiah.
I want to find that happiness that only God can provide to live in His will and His way, to be fully complete in Him and blessed with His happiness for me.

My desire and goal for the next 21 days is to share me with you and share how Jesus is allowing me to work on the masterpiece He designed so long ago. I walk around as His Temple representing Him and I will do everything I can to honor, cherish and love what He has blessed me with, but in the end I know only He can truly bring the happiness I crave so deeply.

He is my Happiness and I am His Masterpiece

I hope you'll follow along with me to see where He takes you.

Do you Crave Happiness and Do you need help working on His Masterpiece?

Are you Currently doing a fitness program?
Are you current;y reading a devotional?
Are you treating your Body as His Temple?
Are you feeling Lost and Craving Happiness?

Would you like to join me? I invite you to email me JoyforFitness@gmail.com or comment below and we can chat or just share your story. 

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