As you may know, I am a huge fan of Beachbody. They are the company that are responsible for P90X, Insanity, Turbo Fire, and so much more! As I started researching Beachbody, I fell in love with their company! I started following as many of their staff as I could! That is how I found Chalene Johnson, creator of Turbo Fire and Turbo Jam!

When I start following Chalene on Twitter, I really liked what she had to say. She shared a lot about motivation, productivity, marketing, branding, leadership, and more. Over time, I became a huge fan of Chalene.

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In 2005, I started running. When I started I couldn’t run 1/2 a mile and I was overweight. It was very frustrating. I was slow. I always got passed by other people running. I often wanted to give up. It seemed like I had too far to go. It seemed like I wouldn’t make it. Ever been there?

Over time, I pushed through my fears and frustrations. I got faster, ran further, and lost weight. Eventually, I ran a marathon, looked good, and I was the one passing people! Those accomplishments made all the pain and effort worth it. I am so glad I did not give up.

Last summer, I saw an overweight girl running in my neighborhood. She was slow and looked exhausted and frustrated. I said, “Keep going! You’re doing great! You can do this!”

Why was I able to encourage her? Because I knew she was closer than she thought she was to succeeding, to becoming faster, to losing weight. I knew that if she’d make the decision to daily go after it, that after a short period of time, she would be achieving what she once thought was impossible!

We are all closer than we think to our goals. We’re closer than we think to losing weight, running a marathon, finding our future spouse, making a living . . . you name it. You just have to choose to keep going. Choose to take steps toward your goals everyday.

So keep going. Don’t give up.

You’re closer than you think!

As you all know I’m I really enjoy Beach Body products! As I started researching the company and it’s instructors, I started following some of them on Twitter. I started following, Chalene Johnson, who made Chalene Extreme and other exercise programs. I’ve never done any of her workouts, but I started following her on Twitter. I really enjoyed her tweets about leadership, motivation, and social media.

It turns out she is actually a motivational speaker, a business owner, and gets mentored by Brian Tracy.

In the beginning of the year she made a free 30-day challenge program available to anyone who wants to grow personally. I’m currently in the second week of it, and it’s making a huge difference in the way I live day to day. I’ve been learning how to become more effective at setting priorities, setting and attaining goals, and maintaining a daily to-do list. It’s helped immensely.

I’d recommend for you to go through the challenge. Once you sign up, you get a 5-10 minute video from Chalene e-mailed to you daily. The videos always come with something practical to apply to your life and often contain free documents you can download to help you through the journey.

http://www.chalenejohnson.com/30daychallenge/

It’s been so helpful, I thought I’d share it with you. I hope you’ll take advantage of it. It’s free! If you’re interested in growing yourself, you need to!

Enjoy!