Are You Worthy?
Kettlebells are not for the faint of heart.
They are not for those who whine about the heat or the cold or dirt or sweat -- or any other thing for that matter.
Kettlebells are best battled outside in the rain or sleet or sun or wind where you can beat them or they can beat you, and the story is told only by the pock marks in the grass and the dirt on your hands.
Though they will do so, they are not meant to make prettier muscles but better muscles. They are meant to temper from the inside out, testing your mettle, strengthening muscle, ligament, tendon, and even a little skin.
Those who fear such a challenge from a small metal ball and do not wish to bear it's mark are not worthy of its gifts. And they should go home.
----"Elitism, June 22, 2008
(I picked this up off the net sometime ago -- sorry, forgot where -- but she says it so well.)
What is Strength?
Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.And Pain?
----Arnold Schwartzenegger
Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take it's place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.
----Lance Armstrong
What the world really needs
Do not ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
----Howard Thurman
A little (big) secret
Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal; my strength lies solely in my tenacity."
---Louis Pasteur
I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine.
--- Bruce Lee
Enduring faith is not blind or obedient, it is keenly attentive and responsible; it is not fed by awe, but by quickening interest; prosperity is not the disappearance of problems, but the continual engagement with the process of finding solutions. Wisdom is not given from on high, but must be painstakingly unraveled from the knots in his own guts.
--- Deane Juhan, Job's Body
In SEAL Team, when things looked the worst, when the mud was up to our ears, when the night was the coldest, when the mountain looked the highest, when the guns felt the hottest, the only way around it all was through it. "Get amongst it," we'd say.
. . . This above all will unleash the warrior inside each of us . . . . don't look for ways to get around life. Grab it, jump in it. do something, anything, but get amongst it!
---Richard Machowicz, Unleash the Warrior Within
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward. But properly learned, the lesson forever changes the man.
-- Bill Hinbern
If you're gonna be stupid, better be tough.
-- Jeff Martone
FAR BETTER to dare mighty things,
to win glorious triumphs,
even though checkered by failure,
than to take rank with those poor spirits
who neither enjoy much nor suffer much,
because they live in the gray twilight that
knows not victory, nor defeat.
-- Theodore Roosevelt
Question: What does it take to have a great company [ . . . person]?
Reply: It takes major setbacks and overcoming those.
-- Jack Welch, CEO of General Electric
The mercenary fights for a buck, the soldier fights because he is ordered to, but the warrior fights for a cause. He doesn't fight for pettiness or mindless bloodshed. The warrior fights because he believes that he is fighting for something good, something positive, something that will improve the quality of the world around him. The warrior never forgets that he is the example and so will always remember to act accordingly. He is a leader, and when there is no one else to lead, the warrior must lead himself forward to a different, higher standard. The warrior knows that he cannot and will not hdie the truth from himself, because to do so would be to breed weakness. The warrior knows if he chooses the weakest path, ultimately the person he truly cheats is himself.
. . . . To choose the path of a warrior means you must develop an inextinguishable passion for life. When you do, the amazing value of it is always in the forefront of your mind and propels your body.
---Richard Machowicz, Unleash the Warrior Within
Absorb what is useful. Discard what is not. Add what is uniquely your own.
--- Bruce Lee
To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.
--- Bruce Lee
Strong people are harder to kill than weak people and more useful in general.
-- Mark Rippetoe
Don't ask for an easier life.
Ask to be a stronger person.
-- unknown
“If a man hasn't discovered something that he
will die for, he isn't fit to live.”
- Martin Luther King Jr.
"Alright men, they're in front of us, behind us, to our left, and to our right...they can't get away this time!"
-Gen. Lewis B. "Chesty" Puller (USMC)
- "Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better."
- --Ralph Waldo Emerson--
- "There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure."
- --Colin Powell-- (1937 - )
Warriors aren’t born, they’re made. They’re forged in small towns and in garage gyms, and they’re hardly ever what people expect. They’re usually the ones who simply bust ass every day while others blab about the latest reality show or game station. They’re out there . . .
-- Scott Sonnon
It is better to have lived one day as a tiger than a thousand years as a sheep’ - Tibetan Proverb"Out of every one hundred men, ten shouldn't even be there, eighty are just targets, nine are the real fighters, and we are lucky to have them, for they make the battle. Ah, but the one, one is a warrior, and he will bring the others back."
