the school yard

where it all begins...

its funny thinking back to our youth, particularly high school.

I just taught a boxing class to 15 year old high school kids. All I could think, if I was you and I was your instructor, I would listen to me....LOL. The boys were fantastic and the girls...Not so. It was funny to interact with them and try to engage them as they are on a totally different wave length. 15 man! that was ...omg!! 16 nearly 17 years ago. Frightening to think. The girls pulled the typical, my backs sore, I have my periods blah blah blah. I said, great! 'you have period pain'! PMS. Lets punch the crap out of these pads! Motivating right? nope. Not for these bitches! But I was one of the kids at school that excelled at sports, loved it. All the periods between PE, SPORT, CARNIVALS etc. were a distraction. Except Art and Music. Loved Art! Anyways... the biggest thing I got out of today is that kids of today are lazy! to skool for cool!

No wonder the world is getting fatter. Schools try to encourage kids to be more active, but at the end of the day it does come from childhood. Before the school yard! Parents that buy their kids video games, snack foods and soft drinks should be in question. If you love your child do you reward them with nutritionally empty foods and buy them expensive toys. NO! you take them to the park and throw a footy around, play outdoor games with them. Show them that you care and be there. Giving them video games is the parents way out. Thats bullshit!

As a trainer, I will be in business forever. Unless...well there really is no unless, because the message is loud and clear for all to hear...but translation of the message into action is very distorted.

Usually it is about here that I jump onto my high horse. Because my passion does lay in getting people moving. But it makes my job 10 times harder if people do not know how to move. I am 17 years older than these kids (granted there is strength and experience) but none of them can move like I can. I am not saying this from an 'ego' space. Just a factual space to prove my point. Getting people moving and improving their body awareness is massive. They do not have to be elite, skinny or the seasoned athlete. People need to learn to take care of the body they were given, wear and tear in later years will take its toll and payback is a bitch!

Just a thought...

"RE"- Words

RE-juvenation
RE-invigorate

RE-vitalise

RE-charge

RE-energise
RE-fresh

RE-store

RE-set

This week has been about all of these things. In terms of clients and work. I have been allot less stressed and feeling like I have allot more down time. The clock is ticking till my departure, seven and a bit weeks. It cant seem to come quick enough really. So having some time to chill and not be on turbo had really helped. Going against the grain, i.e. my body clock and energy levels has been tough. But now I have let some of the extra work that I was doing go, I feel totally re-energised...


...except for some strange reason, after a fantastic week, I feel over it. Lying here this morning, I am snappy, sleepy, sulky and shitty (go the "s's")!! I have to teach a class at 2pm to school children, so gonna get my 2nd Nanna Nap in for the morning to see how I feel. Not a big deal, I'm sure once I get moving it will be all sweet, but till I do that's how it is!

re.assurance

I'm probably going to sound very un-enlightened in saying this, but I have a point.

Its really fuckin crazy how as individuals we can be so hard on ourselves to the point of detriment. I guess that's where the saying "you're your own worst enemy" comes from.

I worked with a young girl last night. 22 years old and just so insecure. I become very aware and attune to this sort of self talk, because I have gone through the journey and since moved on. I know that everyone learns at their own pace, but the degree of self loathing visible in this girl is insane. Very draining and pointless to add words of wisdom because there is still the ego of stubbornness present that does not permit anothers opinion or reassurance to advise otherwise. Very frustrating.

Learning to love and accept yourself, strengths, weakness, skills and flaws is an ongoing process. Letting go of hang ups, over coming fears, rising above criticism...they are all virtues that cultivate with age, experience and lessons. How open we are to receiving and learning more about our essence is determined by how we can deconstruct our ego. Which is our conditioning, from family, school, friends, repeated self talk. This is definitely one of life's major and harder tasks. Because this is teaching ourselves to unlearn what we once believe, which is usually a fictitious story of how we perceived a situation and RE-learn to approach the story based on facts with out attaching meaning. WOW! that's friggen hard core, but if we want to release ourselves from our 'mind speak' then this is what has to be done.

1 year ago. I used to battle with this allot. My mind taking over and propelling me into depression. Not clinical depression, but just feeling depressed! All I wanted to do is sleep in my room with curtains drawn, in hope that when I wake up everything will be dealt with. I would go out and drink, get drunk, barely manage hangovers, do it again, smoke cigarettes, smoke more cigarettes, eat poorly. Etc. This maybe normal for some, but for me...all these behaviours were contributing to my feeling of anger, frustration, stagnation and resentment. All toward myself...

1 year on. Present day. I can't say that I am "Lizzy Lama" (Dali lama, incase you didn't get that), (a long way off I'm sure, but you get my drift). But I am now able to recognise and realise what needs to happen before I let my mind start speaking and controlling my actions. My mind still speaks but I am better and quicker able to let go of whats irrelevant and apply whats relevant to keep me moving in a forward direction.