{"id":45915,"date":"2014-10-15T09:31:30","date_gmt":"2014-10-15T14:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fitzness.com\/blog\/?p=45915"},"modified":"2015-02-28T08:50:16","modified_gmt":"2015-02-28T13:50:16","slug":"pushing-the-envelope-trying-things-never-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fitzness.com\/blog\/pushing-the-envelope-trying-things-never-thought\/","title":{"rendered":"Pushing the Envelope and Trying Things I Never Thought I Would"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_45924\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fitzness.com\/blog\/pushing-the-envelope-trying-things-never-thought\/fotor_81\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-45924\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-45924\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-45924\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fitzness.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/fotor_81-400x225.jpg\" alt=\"Damn this stupid headband! Fitzness.com\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fitzness.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/fotor_81-400x225.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.fitzness.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/fotor_81-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.fitzness.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/fotor_81-196x110.jpg 196w, https:\/\/www.fitzness.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/fotor_81-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.fitzness.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/fotor_81-600x337.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.fitzness.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/fotor_81.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-45924\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Damn this stupid headband!<br \/>Fitzness.com<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19067\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fitzness.com\/blog\/oakley-jacket-works-miracles-keeps-floridian-warm\/393010_10200254517706172_1407290824_n\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-19067\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19067\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-19067\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fitzness.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/393010_10200254517706172_1407290824_n-400x400.jpg\" alt=\"Oakley Ambassador Fun\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fitzness.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/393010_10200254517706172_1407290824_n-400x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.fitzness.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/393010_10200254517706172_1407290824_n-54x55.jpg 54w, https:\/\/www.fitzness.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/393010_10200254517706172_1407290824_n-90x90.jpg 90w, https:\/\/www.fitzness.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/393010_10200254517706172_1407290824_n-160x160.jpg 160w, https:\/\/www.fitzness.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/393010_10200254517706172_1407290824_n.jpg 853w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-19067\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakley Ambassador Fun<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>I had a thought that made me sick today.<\/strong> At first that thought made me think &#8220;Damn it!&#8221; And then I just kind of sighed and thought &#8230; &#8220;oh, what the hell?&#8221; So I&#8217;ll start this story with the fact that I like pushing the envelope. I&#8217;m never satisfied and always want more. I&#8217;m always HAPPY, but I&#8217;m never satisfied and there&#8217;s a drastic difference between the two. I realize life is short, and I have a billion things to accomplish both personally and professionally before I leave this earth. However, I sometimes lean on the old &#8220;I YAM what I YAM&#8221; mantra. And even with a constant craving for more &#8230; I&#8217;ve often gotten stuck in my ways. Some samples of my stickler issues are:<!--more--><\/p>\n<ul style=\"list-style-type: disc;\">\n<li>I love the heat and fear the cold, so I&#8217;ve never really pursued cold weather activities.<\/li>\n<li>I was raised on the beaches of Fort Lauderdale, Florida in bikinis and board shorts . Paired with my profession as a fitness pro, my style has always been pretty casual. I&#8217;ve been makeup and jewelery free to a fault.<\/li>\n<li>My sporting interests have been those that require constant mental strategy. I loved competing as a kickboxer not only because it was grueling, but because it was fun to trick opponents in to leaning their heads in to my foot. Stuck on THAT type of sport &#8230; my clients Kristen Seymour and Jodi Bennett started participating in half marathons. I swore adamantly I&#8217;d never join them. Left, right, left, right, left, right for 13.1 miles? No thank you!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fitzness.com\/blog\/pushing-the-envelope-trying-things-never-thought\/fitz_koehler_-5-of-9\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-45921\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-45921\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fitzness.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Fitz_Koehler_-5-of-9-266x400.jpg\" alt=\"Fitz_Koehler_ (5 of 9)\" width=\"266\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fitzness.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Fitz_Koehler_-5-of-9-266x400.jpg 266w, https:\/\/www.fitzness.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Fitz_Koehler_-5-of-9-681x1024.jpg 681w, https:\/\/www.fitzness.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Fitz_Koehler_-5-of-9-300x450.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.fitzness.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Fitz_Koehler_-5-of-9-399x600.jpg 399w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 266px) 100vw, 266px\" \/><\/a>And then &#8230; things started to change. I&#8217;m not quite sure what the heck has happened, but as I look back over the past few years &#8230; they have. I&#8217;m learning lots of new things, stepping way outside of my comfort zone and am growing hungry for more of that.<\/p>\n<ul style=\"list-style-type: disc;\">\n<li>Oakley took me on a snowboarding trip to Utah last year. I was a bit stressed out in anticipation, because I legitimately fear the cold. I wasn&#8217;t afraid of snowboarding (something I&#8217;d never done), I just didn&#8217;t want to become a Fitzsicle. Fortunately, Oakley jacked me up with all sorts of high-tech clothing and instead of being cold &#8230; I was sweating on the slopes! How neat is that? I had no idea cold-weather people had gear that actually worked. Now that I know &#8230; I&#8217;m planning to get back to the slopes as soon as possible.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul style=\"list-style-type: disc;\">\n<li>Because of my work on stages and in studios, I&#8217;ve been forced to up my game in the wardrobe and makeup department. A assure you that time in front of HD cameras and studio lights does not feel or look good without the proper makeup. So, after a few appearances looking like I&#8217;d just rolled out of bed on TV,\u00a0 I started hiring amazing makeup artists like my girls Kara Winslow and Quita Campbell to do me up. And then &#8230; since I travel so much for work and can&#8217;t always take them with me, I had Kara teach me how to do my own makeup. Sounds simple, but for me &#8230; it was a very big thing. And THEN &#8230; my sweet friend <a href=\"http:\/\/dietdiva.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tara Gidus<\/a> asked me to fill in for her on her talk show <a href=\"http:\/\/emotionalmojo.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Emotional Mojo<\/a> and I couldn&#8217;t get away with wearing cute workout clothes anymore. Damn it! I actually already have the professional clothes because of my busy corporate speaking schedule, but &#8230; I was told that I &#8220;needed&#8221; jewelery. Ack! I hated jewelry. But then &#8230; I borrowed a bunch for Emotional Mojo from my pal Susan Regalado, which then inspired me to BUY MY OWN. WTH? Oh! I forgot to mention that I also have been wearing false eyelashes and curling my hair.\u00a0 WHO AM I? This is getting silly. However, now that I&#8217;ve done it all a bunch, it doesn&#8217;t feel so bad and I&#8217;m actually starting to enjoy a bit of the latida girlie stuff.<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fitzness.com\/blog\/pushing-the-envelope-trying-things-never-thought\/fitz-princess-2014-four-medals\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-45922\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-45922\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fitzness.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/fitz-princess-2014-four-medals-400x400.jpg\" alt=\"fitz princess 2014 four medals\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fitzness.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/fitz-princess-2014-four-medals-400x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.fitzness.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/fitz-princess-2014-four-medals-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.fitzness.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/fitz-princess-2014-four-medals-350x350.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.fitzness.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/fitz-princess-2014-four-medals-550x550.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.fitzness.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/fitz-princess-2014-four-medals-830x830.jpg 830w, https:\/\/www.fitzness.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/fitz-princess-2014-four-medals-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.fitzness.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/fitz-princess-2014-four-medals-90x90.jpg 90w, https:\/\/www.fitzness.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/fitz-princess-2014-four-medals-600x600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.fitzness.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/fitz-princess-2014-four-medals.jpg 1756w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>And this is the thing that really erked me today. <\/strong>A few years ago, I literally ran a half marathon on a random whim provided by runDisney. This is the thing I confidently assured the world I&#8217;d never do. <a title=\"I Ran the Disney Princess Half Marathon without Training \u2026 and Survived!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fitzness.com\/blog\/i-ran-the-disney-princess-half-marathon-without-training-and-survived\/\" target=\"_blank\">You can read about it here. <\/a>I was more than surprised to be crossing both the starting and finish lines that day, but I did it and really had a lot of fun. And a few weeks later, because I was feeling so frisky on the &#8220;I can do a half marathon without training for it feeling&#8221;, I jumped in to a short triathlon which I also had not prepared for. It was awesome. Since then, I&#8217;ve done a bunch of half marathons and have loved them all. But my stance has remained. I&#8217;ve never crossed the finish line of a half marathon and thought &#8220;Gee, I&#8217;d like to do that again &#8230; right now!&#8221; So the dreaded full marathon has been off of my list of things to do &#8230; until today. Now, I&#8217;m not committing to anything here and I&#8217;m more ticked than anything. But, I was looking at this stupid headband of mine which is printed with a bunch of &#8220;13.1&#8221; marks and for one fleeting &#8211; one really stupid fleeting moment I thought, &#8220;Maybe I&#8217;ll need one with 26.2 all over it&#8221;. That was it! I hate myself for even considering it, but apparently I&#8217;m either a glutton for punishment or a girl who&#8217;s still making progress. At this point, I&#8217;m not sure which. The good news, I know that if I ever commit to a full marathon, I&#8217;ll end up better for it. And then &#8230; oh gosh. I don&#8217;t even want to imagine what I&#8217;ll come up with next.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>So here&#8217;s the moral of the story.<\/strong> I&#8217;m evolving. And I&#8217;m probably evolving because I crave so much more than I am and that I have. I&#8217;ve stuck with a bunch of semi-dumb thoughts and rules for a long time, and the more I unleash them &#8230; the better things are. Hating the cold, makeup, jewelry and distance running really didn&#8217;t get me anywhere. Since I&#8217;ve welcomed those things in to my life, I&#8217;ve had more fun and have become more successful along the way. I&#8217;m working hard to be more of a &#8220;yes person&#8221; than a &#8220;NO person&#8221;, because in most cases &#8211; my YESES lead to more fun.<\/p>\n<p>So, if you are also stuck inside some stupid box, I suggest you start kicking and screaming. Give some new things a try and stop hanging on to this person you think you&#8217;re supposed to be. Ready to be the fit one with the great job and adventurous lifestyle? Do it! Want babies? Have them. Want to move away from your hometown? GO!<\/p>\n<p>Life is short, and you&#8217;ve got a lot more fun to have and way more things to accomplish. So start pushing the envelope. I can even let you borrow some ski pants or jewelry if you need it!<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>What NO are you hoping to turn in to a YES?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/o8ztnlRQtlQ\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; I had a thought that made me sick today. 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