3/9 Whole Life Wednesday - Happy Birthday Nicole!

Happy birthday Nicole! We hope your special day is fill of love, laughter and perhaps a heavy barbell! We are grateful you are a member of our community. 
​We are in the final week of our New Year Whole Life Challenge. For the past 8 weeks we have been eating well, staying hydrated, exercising and doing mobility daily, sleeping 6-8 hours a night, and practicing a different healthy lifestyle habit every week. This week we are practicing gratitude. Every day this week we have been challenged to:

• Notice three things each day that you are grateful to have in your life, big or small, and find a way to express gratitude for them.
• You can say them to yourself or to someone else.
• You can write them down on paper.
• You can express each one as they come or save the expression of all three for one time during the day.

Practicing gratitude can lift us out of depression, turn around a mental funk, and provide a different perspective. Sometimes its easy to get caught up in the one negative thing, and loose sight of all the good things in our lives. Here's what the folks from the Whole Life Challenge have to say about gratitude:

Have you ever noticed how good a job your head does at reminding you what’s not right in your life? It can be like some sort of drill sergeant or even anti-coach at times. I mean, when was the last time you were truly motivated by a list of things that were wrong?
Shifting your attention toward what’s right in your life is a great practice for counteracting our natural tendency. It’s not like there is anything wrong with being aware of what’s not working for you, but the right/wrong balance in most of us is way out of whack.
By expressing thankfulness for what’s right, you will reinforce how many things are working in your life. It’s easy to take the small daily pleasures, like a cup of tea or a loving family, for granted. By pulling them into the fore of your mind, you reprogram yourself to see the great in your life automatically.

Today's Workout
"Death By" - Snatch 
Start with an empty barbell, add 10lbs every minute, continue until you can't make the weight in the minute.