working on my fitness

I have pretty much been active my whole life.

According to my mom as a kid I was always running around and playing.
I can recall many many days when we lived in Washington spending time outside playing basketball, baseball, football, kick ball, climbimg trees, roller blading, riding bikes and just loving it.

Then I started playing soccer. Soccer was my life in high school. High school season was always intense, and then when that season was over we started another for rec. And if a season wasn't going on we were always practicing. There is nothing more fun than the competitivness amongst teammates to make eachother better and nothing more fullfilling than reaching a new goal of number of juggles you can do in a row.

I also did cross country in high school. That opened my mind and body up to the world of running. To those who have never competitively ran in a race before there is a lot more strategy to it than one might think. And as fun as it is to race, it is even nicer to just run and have time to think about things other than how fast of a pace you should be running, who to pass, when to pass them or when to start your final sprint.


Then college came and life got "too busy" to be as active as I was before. It is not the fact that I have been in this sort of cycle of "gaining some weight and then losing weight", that has had me thinking about how active I was but more of the fact that with my major being "exercise physiology" I feel like unless I get back in the habit of being active everyday I will have to consider myself a hypocrite. So starting tomorrow my days of being "too busy" are over. Not only am I going to start eating better and exercising more but I also want to just do more outside. Florida may be hot, but I feel like after living here for so long I should be use to it.

Lesson to learn here: If its not easy then its not worth it. I am really going to have to work hard and push myself to do these things. I know I can but it will take time before it starts to get easier and more or the norm. Im excited to see how it changes my life though. When I live this way it makes me feel just more happy overall, and that is a great way to feel. Plus a healthy body is more inviting to the spirit too because it shows that you care about this precious gift that was given to us. That will be my motivation!

Failed Blogger

So basically the title says it all. Thus far in my blogging experience I have failed. Failed to have a point to my blog, failed to keep up with it. I have just failed, and I have accepted that. Well now that I know I have failed I have decided to once again try to do this again only this time I want to succeed. My motivation to do so came from a couple of very spunky sisters I met a couple months ago who keep wonderful blogs themselves. Reading through their posts made me miss typing out my thoughts for people to read, that is if they care to.

With a new name, a new layout and with having summer(so I will actually have time to write), I think I am ready to begin this new online journal-esque experience. To those who will actually read this I hope I don't bore you, and I will apologize in advance for any rambling that may occur in future posts.

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This will be my first little thought. My new name "Another Day Wiser".

I have to thank "Yours Truly, Madison" for coming up with it, as well as for designing my header since I was too lazy to do it myself :)

Anyway, as I was thinking about the title "Another Day Wiser" and how I could tie that in for a sort of theme for this blog it made me think about this past semester I had at Brigham Young University-Idaho. It was an amazing semester and I can honestly say that my experience there has made me the happiest I have ever been in my life. A main part of that came from the people that I met, my roommates in particular.

We would always have hour long talks about the gospel and life, and one principle amongst the many that I truly came to appreciate through those talks is the fact that in this life we are constantly progressing, and that progress will never end unless we let it. While we may think we know a lot, there is ALWAYS something new to learn and that is so exciting to think about. So with this blog I want to try and focus on that principle. The lessons I learn each day, and how I become in a way "another day wiser".