Closer than ever

If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Failure does not prevent success. In fact, failure is what leads to success. There is no failure, no disappointment, no mistake in your past that can stop you from taking a positive step forward right now. No matter how many times you may have fallen short of the mark before, success is closer than ever. Each time you get it wrong, you learn more about how to get it right. Keep putting that growing knowledge and experience to use, and you’ll reach your goal. Every disappointment...

Make Your Home Your Dream Home

I’m reading “Life is a Verb” by Patti Digh right now. I can’t seem to put the book down. If you like quotes and quirky life stories that help you see things from different perspectives, you will love this book. Here is an excerpt: “Dream big. But remember that unhappy people who win the lottery are just unhappy in a bigger and more public way. So enter the contest, but don’t gamble the life you’re living now. Keep on living that life just the same. Make your own house your dream home because of the people in it, even with that...

What are You focused on?

Forget about what you can’t do. Focus on what you will do. Dream big dreams and make workable plans that will get you there. Then put those plans into action and do what you will do. Allow the beauty and richness of your dreams to expand your concept of what you are willing to do. This is your life and you deserve to give yourself the very best. Intensely feel the accomplishment in your imagination. Let that incomparable feeling of satisfaction push you forward. Focus on what you will do and you’ll discover that it is more than enough. You have within you the...

Your Stories & Your Health~Are You ...

Do you ever have those moments where you think to yourself, “I hope I never remember this”?   I’ve had a few of those moments and ironically they are the ones that have taught me the most. Some of the moments I remember: the time my mom decided to have my little brother Aaron on my first communion (I know she didn’t really have a choice!)…I had to have my dad help me get ready for church & wear a dress (something I despised, the morning went like this, “Dad, I can just wear jeans. No, Dad, you don’t need to attempt to braid my hair. No, dad, I should...

Celebrating Silly!

Life is short. I want to live my life to my fullest potential.  My favorite feeling in the world is having a good, full-out belly laugh and even better when I’m sharing laughs with others. I love meeting people and hearing about their stories. I love celebrating life! This post is to share with you a collection of pictures that are ridiculous, random, and well just plain silly. I invite you to come back often; have a few laughs & enjoy life! Feel free to send me your “celebrating silly” pics to my email: Alisha.kruger@gmail.com and I will add them to this...

What I Think About While I’m Running �...

I love to run. I don’t run for time or speed but merely just to clear my head and to try to get rid of my little belly pooch and well from letting it become a  bigger belly pooch .   Recently, I’ve decided to up my mileage just to see how far I can go.  I was surprised to see that physically I can keep on but mentally the couch starts calling my name. My mind thinks this idea is absolute crazy talk so I’m out to change it. I find myself thinking about: The time when I was 13-15 years old. (This is such a bad memory the age is blurred…) I was a candidate for...

How the Little Things Can Change Your Li...

Note: I focus this blog on weight loss but it is about life in general. Everyone can benefit! I love helping people reach their weight loss & fitness goals.  However, when some reach their goal weight or get close to it, they are not as “happy” as they thought they would be.  Even though they fit into those cute Buckle jeans that they’ve been dying to buy for the past year, those Buckle jeans don’t give them that happiness factor they were looking for. You may be thinking, duh, that’s because it’s an investment in a materialistic object that doesn’t...

Are You Getting in Your Own Way?

I love helping people reach their goals and become the person they want to be. I find though, that majority of the time, we are the ones holding ourselves back from being what we want, having what we want and doing what we want.  How so?  Fear. Fear gets in the way.  We are not as bound and determined to get to what we want to be.  The fear of “I’m not going to get there” is what is holding you back.  If your goal is to lose weight, you need to let go of any fears you may subconsciously be holding such as, “I’m not going to lose any weight”, “it’s...