What's in a name??

For a long time I had been trying to think of a name for my team! 

I am part of an incredible team in Beachbody, but as I grow my own business I want to have a name that is my own. 

I thought about it for a long time and I just couldn’t think of anything that really felt right…..but once I heard it, I couldn’t get it out of my head, I just knew that it was the ONE!

The name “From This Day Forward Fitness” actually came to me one day in a church service!! The service was about marriage but the point of the message was that God accepts us as we are TODAY no matter what yesterday looked like.  God is a “from this day forward” kind of God! 

Pretty amazing to think about, right?

And hearing that made me realize that I want to be able give myself enough grace to be able to live my life “from this day forward” in all aspects of my life!!

Because I know I screw up ALL the time, I’m HUMAN!!

I screw up as a mom, as a wife, as a coach, I miss workouts, I eat foods I “shouldn’t”, I lose my patience, I’ve yelled at my daughter (which I hate to admit)… the list goes on!

And it can be sooo easy to get stuck focusing on the past – focusing on all of our short comings, on the” could have’s” and “should have’s”, on the things we failed at, all the mistakes we have made. 

But those mistakes DO NOT define us, and they certainly do not define our future, especially if we allow ourselves to LEARN from them and then MOVE ON!! 

If you don’t know, I LOVE quotes! Words can be so powerful!

And I’m not sure who said it, but one that I really like is -

“Your mistakes are meant to guide you, not define you!”

And I know that through every mistake there is a lesson to be learned. 

So although I will make mistakes, it doesn’t matter –what matters is what I do “from this day forward” to IMPROVE!!!

So, from this day forward fitness is just that – focusing on being healthier and better each day than you were the day before!!!

When we fall short (and we ALL do), you don’t dwell on it…you pick yourself back up and you keep going!!! And one day at a time, one foot in front of the other, you will get to your goal!