Author: Keri McKibbin

THEN there’s another BIG thing if you are too scared about the consequences of doing “too well”. You fear that if you give this your all, then your friends will treat you different somehow and you don’t want that, you don’t want to “upset” anyone, upset your “tribe”.

The truth is there is NO tribe, no code of conduct needed because people who don’t want you to do well DO NOT HAVE ANY HONOUR, please don’t be scared of being yourself, because its killing your chances of being truly happy.

The more committed attitude means that you are finally “turning pro” and you have turned a page in your life, and you start to remember when life really started changing for you.

Turning pro means showing up all of the time, putting priority on your health, you really want to fulfil the true talent you had as a kid, and the sense of pride, fulfilment and achievement you now have is finally making you incredibly happy in all areas of your life.

Don’t be scared of where doing your best takes you, there’s every chance it ends up as your purpose in life, what you were meant to do or become.

Great health and fitness sets perfect conditions for you to achieve everything you really wanted from life.

The people you meet along the way will be like minded, they will cheer on every step of your success and your view on life will have changed to one of positivity and endless possibility.

Escape the trap of being half-hearted and throw everything into this and just watch where it takes you.

On the way back down, I bumped into someone in his 60’s. After a brief conversation, he said “you’re getting older mind, better be careful”. I responded that this was the very best way of fighting off old age but he ignited something in me, I was the worst person to tell that.

I suggested he do the same, I was joking but only HALF joking, I really thought he should.

Then this give me a bit of a kick inside. The doubts were still there on my way back home, but like a couple of weeks ago, I felt I needed to attempt at least some of the mountain on the way back I was prepared to skip.

Thoughts came into my head of why I was doing this run, and why I was intent on pushing a little bit more. I thought of my family, and how long I wanted to stay full of energy, and I want many years to do important memorable things in life.

Looking up the hill again, I knew it would again give me a moment of truth and ask some hard questions out of me, and how strong my desire really was.

The deeper I thought of what I really wanted in life, the smooth my running became, my stride became stronger and after halfway, I never thought of quitting.

To be honest, that moment is there with me on EVERY run, I’m always tempted to quit but I really want that feeling of accomplishing something too, which outweighs anything.

We went swimming as a family afterwards, played football before and after the Wales football game this afternoon, and did a little gardening.

Then the Sunday evening run comes up, I’m the one usually nagging but tonight the kids did. So we went and took advantage of the light nights and great weather.

We all felt incredible after appreciating great views up the mountain and to be honest, now I feel incredible and ready for a new week.

What you do always has a cost and reward. The more you push, the more you get. It’s not always fun especially after a few Guinness”s in the party friday night!,. it’s never easy but in deep times of discomfort.

You have to decide whether you want to fight for what you really want in life, or you throw the towel in and laze on the settee and be too tired, which has it’s own consequences on your body AND mind.

Vital moments every day, choose your battles wisely and you have it in you to win every single one of them!

You have to get used to CRUSHING them, there’s no other way. This is when you show you DO give a damn, and you want to protect everything you have and you need to give it everything you have.

Don’t surrender to negativity, someone or something trying to get one over you. Stand your ground and show you give a damn.

The ones who give a damn are the ones people don’t even approach to get one over, because they know these individuals will stand up and fight their corner.

Giving a damn means you NEVER stop training, you never stop moving and you realise eating healthy foods ONLY makes you STRONGER. With every week gone up you become even more unstoppable and your resolve that much deeper and stronger.

When you give a damn, you realise you have honour, you have pride in keeping fit and healthy, and you’re proud to tell anyone that exercising is now a deep part of you and what you do everyday to feel incredible.

Giving a damn means flat out that you’re going to attack every day and smash anyone’s pre-conceptions about you that somehow you don’t have great ability.

Tomorrow is another day, give a damn how you represent yourself and show enormous pride on how far you have come.