Are you a GIRL with GRIT?!

GRIT is defined as ...

 a positive, non-cognitive trait based on an individual's passion for a particular long-term goal or endstate, coupled with a powerful motivation to achieve their respective objective. This perseverance of effort promotes the overcoming of obstacles or challenges that lie within a gritty individual’s path to accomplishment, and serves as a driving force in achievement realization.

This definition goes hand and hand with my daily mantra, my mental repeat if you will!

I wake up each day and before my feet hit the ground I try to take a moment to just be thankful for the breathe I get to take and the surroundings I have been blessed with. I then remind myself that each day is a gift and I need to go out and do something with it!

I need to GO OUT and WORK TOWARDS MY GOALS! I need to MOVE WITH PURPOSE & GO AFTER WHAT I WANT!

It's not to say that as the day carries on and life happens that I don't I find myself getting smacked around by the unexpected pulls and chaotic demands of life.

It's not to say that I don't feel weak and unmotivated or completely lost in which direction to go at times. This is real life stuff right?

But guess what?!

You gotta DIG DEEP GIRLY!!!

There's zero time for pity parties here!!

And if you think there aren't days where I don't kick, scream or cry, think again! But I refuse to PLAY VICTIM and more importantly I refuse to let anything kick me down for too long!

I pick myself up, dust my self off and get back to the GRIND!

I want to be a GIRL WITH GRIT

and at that I want to surround myself with GIRLS that have GRIT!

No matter how challenging life can be or how side ways the day can go WE WILL NOT GIVE UP!

We will DIG DEEPER than our DEEPEST EXCUSES!

And on the days when WE DON'T WANT TO SHOW UP, WE WILL SHOW UP ANYWAY!

Who's with me?!

It's all about empowering one another to make the rest of our life, the best of our life!

Let's DIG DEEP together to create the healthiest, happiest versions of ourselves!

TEAM GRIT!

Here's to being healthy & happy,

Valerie