Taking a Look Back to Move Forward

As with most people we all want to better at something in the New Year than we did in the previous year. Well, I'm no different. Since I started this blog in July of 2011 (as part of a business training group), I've not been consistent with posting here for a number of reasons. When I started this blog I didn't know ANYTHING about blogging and I still don't know much more now then I did back then. So I want to try restarting without dropping this blog and starting a new one. I'm going to repost a few of the post that I like most. So here I go!

I've been asked "Why FABULOUSLY Fit 50?"

The year my paternal grandmother, Anna Mae Smith (affectionately know as Ma-Mae) turned 100 was such a special year for me. This photo is of her in 2002 at her 100th Birthday Party with the Mayor of Clinton, NC present. I had never known anyone who had lived that long and Ma-Mae was the only grandmother I had ever known, since my maternal grandmother died before her 41st birthday due to stroke and heart disease. As we planned for the big event I tried to imagine what it must be like to have lived that long. Finally the day came to pack up the family and head to Clinton, NC. It would be the first and last time that my mother and grandmother would meet face to face or ever see each other again. We arrived a few days before the event so that we could spend time with Ma-Mae. I remember her telling me "Shug, I don't know what Walter (my uncle) is making all this fuss about just because I'm turning 100, I'm gonna be around until I'm at least 106."  It was at that moment that I told my grandmother that I hope to be as active and full of life as she was when I reached half her age. From that moment on I hoped to be active like my grandmother by the time I turned 50!

This is me on my 53 Birthday!

Next year I will be 55 and it's also the 10 year anniversary of my mother passing away from heart disease, so I have set a couple of goals to reach for. I want to raise $10,000 for the American Heart/Stroke Associations in honor of my mother, I want to have helped 55 people reach their HEALTH/Fitness goals, I want to complete 55 races (10Ks, 10 milers, half marathons and marathons), be able to hold plank pose for 55 minutes and to do 5500 sumo squats in an hour! I've got my work cut out for me to I better get going. Thank you again for your show of love and support, please let me know if I can help you reach your HEALTH/Fitness goals this year. Abundant Blessings from FITNESS Focused FAITH!