Be Brave

Do you ever have that voice inside your head or heart that says why would you want to do that? You are not good enough, smart enough, influential enough, outgoing enough, bold enough, fit enough....etc. I do! Some days it is super easy to blow that off and press full steam ahead. Others....I give in. I shrink back and think maybe......I can't or shouldn't.

I am here to encourage you this morning that you CAN! If you are sitting here and reading this you are already one step ahead with a great cheerleader by your side. I believe in you and I know if you have a desire and a passion for something you can knock down those walls of self doubt that hold you back and go full speed ahead towards whatever it is that sets your soul completely on fire.

The wall I knocked down this week was signing up to become a REFIT instructor! The training is at the end of April in Tennessee. My hope is that I along with a friend can run some classes for our small group that we have been working out with since last summer and then by the middle to end of the summer I may actually be on a regular schedule to teach somewhere in town. A class....on my own...in front of other people!!! Crazy! I can tell you a million reasons that popped up as to why I maybe shouldn't or wouldn't be good at teaching the classes but the one reason I could not extinguish is that it is my passion. Taking the classes, sharing them with other ladies who now do the classes with me. What you may not know is that REFIT is all about working the whole body. Yes, you get an amazing cardio workout for an hour but after class there is a group prayer and quick quick devo (like 1-2 minutes). For me faith and fitness totally collided with this opportunity to share two things I am deeply passionate about so I have to go for it!

A great challenge for today would be to pick an exercise or workout that you look at as intimidating and just conquer it! Or if you have been contemplating starting to workout again then just go for it! If you do not have a gym membership get outside or go to youtube! You can literally look up any workout known to man for free. Pick one that you normally wouldn't do and see how good it feels when you finish it. Even if you just give it your ten minutes we talk about all the time. That is enough especially if your are just beginning. Take that momentum into all that you do this next week and start knocking down those walls...one at a time.

What walls did you knock down this week? What did you go for that the voice in your head tried to keep you from? What goals are you hoping to accomplish? If you do not know spend some time today thinking about, praying about and putting some of this on paper.

For God has not given us a spirit of fear and timidity, but of power, love, and self-discipline. 2 Tim 1:7