MORE COOL UPDATES ON MY "ALOHA THURSDAY!!!"

ALOHA EVERYONE!!!

AFTER MY "AWWWESOME" AND KICK ASS WORKOUTS DONE...  I HEADED OVER TO THE SOON TO BE OPEN, "YKHC FITNESS CENTER/POOL" FACILITY TO DROP OFF MY PAPERWORKS AND IT LOOKS LIKE I'LL BE WORKING THERE PART TIME VERY SOON!!!

THE WONDERFUL AND SWEETHEART, RAUNICKA!!!

MORE FITNESS INTO MY LIFE!!!

BRING IT ON "TEAM AWWWRITE!!!"

AFTER THAT I WENT TO GO PAY MY ELECTRIC BILL WHICH IS NOW LOACTED AT THE A.C. STORE AND WHILE I WAS ON MY WAY OUT, I PASSED THE FLOWER SECTION AND...

FELT LIKE PUTTING A SMILE ON SOMEONE'S FACE!!!

AND HERE'S WHY...

AWWWRITE!!!

WAIPA

AND THIS IS HOW I START MY MORNING... HAPPY "ALOHA THURSDAY".

ALOHA EVERYONE!!!

5:15AM...  ALARM GOES OFF...  TO THE MUSIC OF "COME HOME DADDY" BY BRADDAH DAN.

HIT MY PRE-CARDIO BREAKFAST:

100% NATURAL PEANUT BUTTER ON A SLICE OF DAVE'S KILLER BREAD.

3 SCOOPS OF "MELALEUCA - FIBERWISE".

MELALEUCA OMEGA-3.

MELALEUCA PEAK PERFORMANCE "A.M. VITAMINS PACK.

AND OUT THE DOOR AT 5:45AM TO MY "STEP AEROBICS" CLASS WITH THE "AWWWESOME" COACH DAWN!!!

MY STATS:

OH AND BY THE WAY...

HAU'OLI LA HANAU...  COACH DAWN!!!

YOU STILL HAVE TO DO YOUR BURPEES AND MATCH YOUR AGE...  LOL!!!

C'MON COACH...  21 IS NOT THAT MUCH...  LOL!!!

AFTER CLASS I HEADED STRAIGHT HOME AND HIT MY STRENGTH TRAINING!!!

MY STATS:

AND BY 8:30AM...  I AM DONE FOR THE DAY... BUT I DO SEVERAL ERRANDS TO DO AND THAT IS WHAT MAKES MY DAY SO EXCITING!!!

I'M HEADING OVER TO THE POOL TO GO DROP OFF MY PAPERWORK AND LOOKING FORWARD TO WORKING THERE PART TIME!!!

AND ALSO ON TODAY'S AGENDA...

ITS ANOTHER WAY TO GIVE UNCONDITIONALLY!!!

START YOUR MORNINGS BEAUTIFUL AND WATCH THE UNIVERSE UNFOLDS AT YOUR WILL!!!

TO BE CONTINUED...

AWWWRITE!!!

WAIPA

MY JUMP ROPE CLASS IS "AWWWESOME"... BUT I'M SORE LIKE A @#&!

ALOHA EVERYONE!!!

I JUST GOT DONE WITH MY "JUMP ROPE CONDITIONING" CLASS!!!

IT WAS BRUTAL!!!  IT WAS HARD!!!  AND IT WAS FUN!!!

AND I AM SORE!!!

THE PAIN OF WORKING OUT IS BETTER THAN THE PAIN OF REGRETS FOR NOT WORKING OUT!!!

MY STATS:

THIS IS WHAT I COMMITTED TO DO...  5 BURPEES EVERY MINUTE FOR 20 MINUTES!!!

20 MINUTES LATER...  ARGHHH!!!

BUT THE TIME I GOT TO MY 10 MINUTE MARK...  THOSE BURPEES BECAME MY FOUNDATION OF "MAKE IT OR BREAK IT".

BUT I DID IT...  "100 BURPEES" IN 20 MINUTES!!!  THIS IS WAS DEFINITELY IMPOSSIBLE FOR ME SEVERAL YEARS AGO!!!

AND NOW...  IT'LL ONLY GET BETTER!!!

I LOVE MY "JUMP ROPE CONDITIONING" CLASS!!!

ALSO A SPECIAL SHOUT OUT OF "MAHALOS" TO STEVE FOR THE WONDERFUL GIFT FOR KAHEALANI!!!

BOISE STATE IDAHO!!!

AND ANOTHER "MAHALOS" TO JOEY FOR LUNCH AT THE "MUD HUT".

YUMMY CEASAR SALAD WITH CHICKEN!!!

AWWWRITE!!!

WAIPA

MY "ALOHA WEDNESDAY" - COOL UPDATES!!!

ALOHA EVERYONE!!!

TODAY IS A SIMPLE DAY FOR ME BUT LATER ON IN THE LATE AFTERNOON I HAVE MY "AWWWESOME" JUMP ROPE CONDITIONING CLASS!!!

I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO IT ALREADY!!!

I ALSO HAVE TO SHARE THIS AS TO WHY ITS VERY IMPORTANT TO "INSPIRE" OTHERS.

I WOKE UP THIS MORNING AND DID MY USUAL BREAKFAST AND THEN OPENED UP MY "FACEBOOK" AND CHECKED MY "TEAM AWWWRITE!!!" GROUP AND SAW THIS POST:

I GOTTA TELL YOU...  THIS IS WHY I DO THIS NOW...  IT FEEDS ENERGY INTO MY LIFE IN SUCH A WAY THAT GIVES ME STRENGTH TO TACKLE UNEXPECTED "CHALLENGES" AND "OBSTACLES" IN MY PERSONAL LIFE!!!

THIS IS SO TRUE...

I'VE MADE ALOT OF MISTAKES, I'VE HURT MANY PEOPLE, I'VE LIED, I'VE ROBBED, I'VE NEGLECTED, I'VE IGNORED, MANY PEOPLE WHO WERE VERY DEAR AND GENUINE TO ME THROUGHOUT THEIR LIVES.

AND MY BATTLE BEGINS AND ITS A THE BIGGEST FIGHT OF MY LIFE!!!

I CAN NEVER GO BACK IN TIME AND CHANGE IT...  BUT WHAT I CAN DO IS "CHANGE" NOW AND LIVE A LIFE WITH HONESTY, COMPASSION, FORGIVENESS, FIGHT FOR WHAT I BELIEVE IS RIGHT, PATIENCE, ACCEPTANCE, AND TO PAY IT FORWARD AND NOT EXPECT ANYTHING IN RETURN.

I WILL ALWAYS EXPRESS "APPRECIATION" THE VERY MOMENT I FEEL IT...

I WILL ALWAYS EXPRESS "GRATITUDE" AT ALL TIMES...

AND I SAVE THE BEST & HARDEST ONE FOR ALST...

I WILL STRIVE TO LIVE AN "UNCONDITIONAL" LIFE.

I AM GRATEFUL TO EVERYONE ONE OF YOU WHO ARE PART OF "MY BEAUTIFUL LIFE", WHO ARE MY OHANA AND MY FRIENDS.

FROM MY LOVE & ALOHA...  I GIVE YOU MY ALL, TO INSPIRE...  TO MOTIVATE...  TO DEDICATE...  TO BE THERE FOR ALL OF YOU.

AND I WILL NOW SHARE THIS WONDERFUL ARTICLE I CAME ACROSS THE INTERNET...

THIS HAS TRULY TOUCHED ME AND AWAKEN A SIDE OF ME THAT HAS BEEN DORMANT IN MY HEART.

ENJOY AND TREASURE THIS AS MUCH AS I DO.

Hawaiian Forgiveness and the Three Transgressions

Everything should be forgiven, no exceptions

The Hawaiian concept of forgiveness is different from how forgiveness is approached in Western culture. First, in Huna, forgiveness is not complete until there is a complete letting go or release of the issue. One of my teachers, Etua Lopes, Kumu Hula (teacher of Hula), always says, "You forgive. You forget the incident. You remember only the learning. You remember what it is that you need to do in order to create your universe the way that you want."

In Western culture, after a husband and wife have a heated discussion, they both might say that they're sorry and make peace. Yet when another argument begins a week later, the husband says "See, you're just as hostile as you were last week." The wife retorts, "What does this have to do with last week? You're just holding a grudge because I was right." Neither of them had totally let go of the prior fight.

True pono doesn't happen when the forgiveness occurs. It happens when you forgive and you let it go. It is important to emphasize here that letting it go, releasing it, or forgetting it, does not negate wise discernment. Even in ancient times, if a person wronged you, you forgave him or her. But then from a place of being pono, you could make the decision about how you would relate to that person going forward.

Forgiveness in Hawai‘i must also be mutual. In the West, it's assumed that one party apologizes, the other accepts the apology. Most commonly though, one person says, "I'm sorry" while the other person thinks, "You certainly are, you sorry son of a . . .!" It's less common that there is a sincere response of "Apology accepted." But Hawaiians believe that it is best to get closure on an argument by saying "E Kala mai ia‘u", which means "Please forgive me if I have done anything wrong." Saying it this way volleys responsibility to the other person and calls for action from them. It opens up an energetic connection. Instead of a one-sided admission of guilt and repentance, it encourages a two way communication. In a sense, E Kala mai ia‘u says, "It's in your lap."

Hawaiians also believe that everything should be forgiven, no exceptions. Even the most egregious transgression is to be forgiven. The justice system in ancient Hawai‘i could be swift and firm. Some crimes were punishable by death and others required banishment from society. But even these transgressions were to be forgiven because, according to John Ka‘imikaua, the Hawaiians believed that holding on to unforgiveness only harms yourself.

The Hawaiian code of forgiveness says that there were three types of transgressions, all of which required forgiveness. The first is hala which means that you have "missed the path" or "erred by omission." A hala could be that you procrastinated getting something done or you weren't as clear as you could be in communicating. In modern times, this could mean perhaps you were unaware of someone else's feelings or didn't give a project your best efforts. Maybe you forgot your wedding anniversary! You commit hala to yourself whenever you feel guilty, repress emotions, or allow someone to ignore your personal boundaries. You can commit hala without even knowing it.

The second transgression, hewa, is another offense you can commit unknowingly. Hewa means to "go overboard" or "to excess." You commit hewa when you are being a perfectionist or are obsessed with anything. Hewa could be manifested today as addiction or an obstinately held opinion. It might be overeating, drinking too much, or monopolizing a conversation. Even being overly passionate about an issue and accidentally upsetting someone with a different view is considered hewa. Hewa to yourself might be holding feelings of anger or hatred, or wanting revenge.

Clearly, hala and hewa are easy transgressions to commit, knowingly and unknowingly. When I speak to a group, I've been taught to ask for forgiveness for anything that I may have said or may say that offends anyone listening. My intention is simply to share my mana‘o (my thinking) with aloha. But everyone has a different reality so I don't know if I do a hala or hewa while teaching. No matter how pure your intention, you may be misunderstood. But if you are coming from aloha, from the heart, ho‘oponopono is easy to do.

The third transgression requiring forgiveness is ‘ino. ‘Ino means "to do intentional harm to someone with hate in mind." It includes everything from vicious gossip to murder. Internally, an ‘ino might be harsh self-judgment or self-deprecation.

In the Hawaiian code of forgiveness, you still have to forgive for an ‘ino, no matter how big or heinous the crime. If you do not forgive, you cannot be truly pono. Again, you only hurt one person by holding on to your unforgiveness and that is yourself.

AWWWRITE

WAIPA

HAPPY ALOHA TUESDAY" EVERYONE!!!

ALOHA EVERYONE!!!

SADLY...  "STEP AEROBICS" WAS CANCELLED BUT I STILL HAD OTHER ALTERNATIVES AND WE'LL GET TO THAT LATER ON.

FIRST THING IN THE MORNING...  I HIT MY "STRENGTH TRAINING" AND DEFINITELY NOTICED AN INCREASE IN MY STRENGTH!!!  CHEEE...  OOOHHH!!!

MY STATS:

AFTER I GOT DONE WITH MY WORKOUTS...  I HEADED OVER TO THE B.I.A. SANDPIT TO GO MEET UP WITH MY FRIEND, JENNIFER AND HER SON AIDEN TO GO WALKING AND CHECKOUT THE PLACE!!!

AND I AM GLAD I DID...  I ALREADY SEE ANOTHER "TRAINING GROUND" IN THE MAKING!!!  I WISH I THOUGHT OF THIS PLACE EARLIER THIS SUMMER!!!  IT GOT KILLER HILLS FOR RUNNING AND BEAR CRAWLS, WE CAN DEFINITELY BRING OUR TIRE TRAINING HERE TOO!!!

AND FOR THIS COMING WINTER, THIS WHERE "TEAM AWWWRITE!!!" WILL MEET UP FOR SOME EXPLOSIVE RUNNING UP HILLS AND THEN WE SLED IT DOWNHILL AND KEEP DOING IT FOR 10 REPS OR SO!!!  AND I'LL COME UP WITH SOME MORE IDEAS!!!

I CAN'T WAIT FOR THIS TO HAPPEN!!!

I ALSO ENJOYED MY TIME WITH JENNIFER AND AIDEN AND ALSO WALKING 2 DOGS AS WELL.  WE WALKED THROUGH THE ENTIRE SANDPIT AREAS AND GETTING IDEAS FOR "WINTER TRAINING"...  CHEEE...  OOOHHH!!!

THANK YOU JENNIFER FOR INVITING ME OVER FOR A BEAUTIFUL WALK.  IT WAS MEANT TO BE AS IT GAVE GREAT IDEAS FOR FUTURE TRAINING DURING THE  WINTER AND NEXT SUMMER!!!

YOU ROCK GIRL...  AND AIDEN TOO!!!

AND THE DOGS TOO...  LOL!!!

I THINK I'M STARTING TO LIKE WALKING DOGS...  I'LL LOOK INTO THIS NEXT SUMMER!!!

AND HERE'S ANOTHER COOL ARTICLE FOR ALL OF YOU...

The 6 Most Important Questions You Can Ask Yourself Today

Think about it.  If I ask you, “Quickly, in one sentence, what do you want most out of life?” I bet your rushed response is going to be something like, “I want to be happy, and have a healthy family, and a career I like that pays well, etc."  Your response is going to be so common and ubiquitous that it basically doesn’t even mean anything.  Which is precisely why senseless, happy-go-lucky questions like this aren’t very helpful.  And yet, this is precisely the kind of questions we often ask ourselves.

So what kind of questions might you ask instead?  Questions that force you into a corner.  Questions that help you embrace the sacrifices it takes to get where you want to go.  Questions that motivate you to focus on the next step forward.  In other words, questions like...

1.  What is worth suffering for? – If you want the benefits of something in life, you have to also want the costs.  If you want the six-pack abs, you have to want the sweat, the sore muscles, the early mornings at the gym, and the low carb meals.  If you want the successful business, you have to also want the late nights, the risky business deals and decisions, and the possibility of failing fifty times to learn what you need to know to succeed.  If you find yourself wanting something month after month, year after year, yet nothing happens and you never come any closer to it, then maybe what you actually want is just an idealization, a fantasy, and a false promise.  Maybe you don't actually want it at all, because you’re not willing to suffer though the work it’s going to take to achieve it.

2.  Based on my daily routines and actions, where can I expect to be in five years? – This question just backs up the first one.  If you have an idea about what you want the next chapter of your life to look like, you have to DO things that support this idea every day.  An idea, after all, isn’t going to do anything for you until you do something productive with it.  In fact, as long as that great idea is just sitting around in your head it’s doing far more harm than good.  Your subconscious mind knows you’re procrastinating on something that’s important to you.  The necessary work that you keep postponing causes stress, anxiety, fear, and usually more procrastination – a vicious cycle that continues to worsen until you interrupt it with ACTION.

3.  What do I need to spend more or less time doing? – As Stephen Covey once said, “Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important.”  In other words, productivity is not just about getting things done, it’s about getting the right things done.  At the end of each day, look at how you have spent your time, and adjust the allocation as necessary for tomorrow.  Do your best to get rid of your schedule’s complexities so you can spend more time on the things that matter.  This means fine-tuning and eliminating all but the essential tasks, so you are left with only the ones that add value to your life.  And above all, know when to set aside the important things for the vital things, like family.

4.  What old rejections (or failures) are still holding me back? – All too often we let the rejections of our past dictate every move we make.  We literally do not know ourselves to be any better than what some opinionated person or narrow circumstance once told us was true.  Of course, an old rejection doesn’t mean we aren’t good enough; it just means some person or circumstance from our past failed to align with what we had to offer at the time.  It means we were graced with more time to improve our thing – to build upon our ideas, to perfect our craft, and indulge deeper in to the work that moves us.  Don’t let old rejections take up permanent residence in your head.  Kick them out on the street.

5.  What is worth smiling about right now? – A recent scientific study at Duke University showed that doctors who are put in a positive mood before making a diagnosis consistently experience significant boosts to their intellectual abilities than doctors in a neutral state, which allows them to make accurate diagnoses almost 20% faster.  The same study then shifted to other vocations and found that optimistic salespeople outsell their pessimistic counterparts by over 50%.  Students primed to feel happy before taking math tests substantially outperform their neutral peers.  So it turns out that our minds are literally hardwired to perform at their best not when they are negative, or even neutral, but when they are positive.

6.  Are the people around me helping me or hurting me? – A big part of who you become in life has to do with who you choose to surround yourself with.  And as you know, it is better to be alone than in bad company.  You simply cannot expect to live a positive, fulfilling life if you surround yourself with negative people.  Distancing yourself from these people is never easy, but it’s a lot harder when they happen to be close friends or family members.  As hard as it may be, it’s something you need to address.  To a certain degree, luck controls who walks into your life, especially as it relates to your family and childhood friends, but you decide who you spend the majority of your time with.

AWWWRITE!!!

WAIPA