I know that I have written about things to motivate you in your fitness goals, but someone asked me a question not long ago which I wanted to share with you all.

The question was "what do I use to inspire me?"  Thats a good question because it made me realise that I havent shared what I use to motivate me.   So what is it?  Well it is a combination of things.

I obviously have a handful of fitness guru's who I admire and learn a lot from.  These guys inspire me all the time to achieve the best knowledge I can and to deliver the absolute best training methods to all of you who read my blogs and train with me.

Then there is always the inspiring story of famous people who overcome adversity to achieve their goals.  Some of them are:

Sylvester Stallone

Muhammed Ali

Lance Armstrong

Oprah Winfrey

Rodney Dangerfield

Michael Jordan

Henry Ford

Colonel Sanders (Yes the KFC Guy)

There are a whole heap more, but this is a start of my top list.  If you dont know the stories of these people, go and google them and read their stories.  All of these people could have quit at any time as they had adversity given to them time and time again, but they just kept on going and pursuing their dream....No matter what life threw at them!

Then there is something else that truly inspires me.  And that is the every day person just getting over their own problems to get on with life and working for their dreams.

This could be anything from raising a family on welfare and still having a positive attitude and raising their children with positivity and moral values.  Or it could be the person who overcomes a terminal illness, or watching the kid in the park practicing his footy skills with his dad with the dream that one day he will be the best!  This sort of stuff inspires me the most, and it is because it is all done behind closed doors...they dont have the world watching them and willing them on, they dont have fans, they dont have millions of people telling them how great they are....but they do what is right and they use their inner belief to achieve the extraordinary and knowing that no one will really ever know the massive achievement that they achieved.

Then there are a whole heap of quotes I love to go over and over that get me going all the time.  So here are some of my favourite quotes

"If you think that you can or you think that you cant, either way you are right"

"To be extraordinary you have to do what the ordinary will not do"

"What the mind can conceive and believe it can achieve"

"Getting knocked down is a setup for a comeback"

"A real decision is measured by the fact that you have taken new action.  If there is no action then you havent truly decided"

"Success is something you attract by the person you become"

"Losers quit when they are tired, winners quit when they have won"

"Pain is temporary, It may last a minute, an hour, a day or a year, but eventually it will subside.  If I quit then it will last forever"

Finally I cant end this without saying that my wife (Jo) inspires me every day.  She lives her life by her values and there has not been a day she has steered away from this.  She is passionate about her family, her beliefs, her goals and life.  She is a real person that will never go against what she believes in, no matter what....and with that I want to leave with you a an old parable which I came across a long time ago and have just rediscovered it again.