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February 4, 2015

Find Something Worth Dying For

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Find something worth dying for then live for it.


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Published on February 04, 2015 07:00

February 3, 2015

The Greatest Gift

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The greatest gift you can give to somebody is your own personal development.


I used to say, ‘If you will take care of me, I will take care of you.’


Now I say, ‘I will take care of me for you, if you will take care of you for me.’


– Jim Rohn


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Published on February 03, 2015 13:15

I Do Not Fear, Though I…

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I’d like to introduce myself – I’m the rookie – I’m the new guy.

I just started thinking of this last night – while I have been in the gym doing what I love for a few years now, I’ve only really taken it as seriously as it gets for 3 months. 3 months. So now I look at myself and go…”Kid, this is your rookie season.” I want to perform well. I want to be incredible at what I do. But man…do I still have a lot to learn about playing in the big leagues. Now, after having broken through barrier after barrier to get to this point, I feel like I am truly ready to stretch and go for it.


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I remember an old coach telling me that the best players in the game are those who are constantly adapting and adjusting to the changes the opponent is making towards them. You consistently are tweaking little things here and there to make yourself better – but you can never rest on the achievements of yesterday because there is someone or something always making adjustments to you.


Life works in incredible ways. Sometimes you are going to be up. Sometimes you are going to be down. But that’s how it works. Enjoy the ups when you have them. Enjoy the feelings of pure happiness and live in that moment. It’s not that you should expect everything to fall apart, but I have to say entropy is a hard thing to ignore as well as the balance of all things. Life is about as balanced as it gets and it always sorts you out in one way or another.


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I don’t view it as things falling apart. I view it as this life trying to keep me humble. Trying to keep my mind focused on today. When you start riding the waves of yesterday or trying to catch those of tomorrow, you end up in a world of impossibilities. As fun as it is to dream about the future, you actually can’t go there. As tragic as it can be to be living in the past, you can’t go back and change anything as well. These moments we have are right here, right now. That’s it.


The one minute. The soldier’s minute. In a battle, that’s all you get. One minute of everything at once. And anything before is nothing; everything after — nothing. Nothing in comparison to that one minute. – Peaky Blinders

I remember hearing that quote while watching one of my favorite shows and writing it down because I thought it was such a powerful moment. All you have really are these seconds and minutes in front of you. In totality, nothing else matters before and after because this moment determines if you live or die. Talk about grinding human existence down to its core. We have the power to go places in our minds that we cannot possibly travel to anymore. However, in reality, the only place we should be is right here in the now.


In thinking about what I wrote last night, I wanted to piggyback off of a thought I was having about how I live my life and what happens when I make mistakes. Yes, I make mistakes. I make a lot of mistakes. In fact, ever since I started this journey I have made more mistakes than I ever made before. But there’s something much different about me now then all those years ago…and it’s purely rooted in fear.


i do not fear loss, despite the depth of its mark. i do not fear mistakes, though i constantly make them. i do not fear pain, in the face of my sufferings. i do not fear the darkness, during my trek through it. i do not fear the light, however blinded by it. i do not fear myself, though i seek to create it. 

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I do not fear all of these things despite feeling them fully. Deep down in my bones they strike me, but I always remember, they are just emotions and feelings. They will eventually pass as all things do.


Don’t be too hard on yourself…you may just be in your rookie season


– Evan Sanders




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Published on February 03, 2015 08:58

February 2, 2015

For The Love Of The Game

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You have to love the game.


Without it, you are going to be pounding the pavement miserable step after miserable step wishing you were doing something else. What’s the point in that? That should literally be the first indicator that you really should be doing something else – if you dread going in to do the work. For me, I found something that I truly love. My love of the game has grown beyond anything I previously thought possible.


Step into this moment.


You know, the moment where you smile during the struggle, enjoy the pain, laugh at how hard it is and cut your rest periods short because you want to challenge yourself more and more. Some can be methodical about their goals and dreams, but for me, I’m acting like life is one big stage and there is a grand orchestra behind me playing all different kinds of tunes.


I am dancing through life right now. Some periods of time are slower, some much faster…but I am dancing nonetheless.


 


 


You always remember the people who were there to congratulate you when you achieved your dream. Unfortunately, that’s not always who you thought it was going to be. But that’s ok. For one reason or another, things are never going to be what you thought they were going to be. They will turn out differently in many ways – sometimes for the better and sometimes for the worse. But that’s life. That’s how the cookie crumbles.


Each day I go a little bit deeper into trying to be the person I wish to be and bring out the good traits in myself that were hidden for such a long time. I am learning. There are rarely days when I don’t travel deep down into the rabbit hole and search for things hidden inside. I don’t know if I could have it really any other way. In fact, that journey has been going on for almost 4 years now and it’s impossible to suggest that I’ll ever go back to that man before the man I am today. One thing I do know for sure is that I haven’t spent any time finding myself, but rather have spent almost all of my time creating myself. I think there’s a huge difference there.


It’s creating vs. finding because in all truth and honesty, I didn’t have anything to actually “find.” I had to drop everything I had learned to become and everything I thought I should be in order to become the person I had always dreamed of. Not the person society or others told me I should be…but who I knew I could become deep down inside.


I make mistakes. Sometimes I come off too strong or start pouring things out too early. But I don’t run scared anymore. I used to – I used to be scared of everything. Scared of making mistakes…scared of myself…scared of losing…scared of abandonment…and I finally found ways to drop those one by one because they turn your life really into nothing. They take everything out of you and there you are…just one big ball of being scared.


Our lives are a series of interpretations of what is actually happening in reality. We bring with us stories and past events that shape what something means to us when it happens and that usually dictates how we act. If we can change that interpretation, we can change our entire world.


I’m working on changing a few of mine right now. We will see how this pans out in the end.


You have to love the game.


This game of life. Without love…then what? What’s the point if you don’t love what you are doing?


One last thing – if you go hard in life and do everything rooted in love and passion, it’s going to be pretty damn hard to knock yourself when you cross the line. Just keep that in the back of your mind. Make mistakes going 100%. Sure there will be spectacular wipeouts, but you will recover and be on your way again. There’s no doubt in my mind.


– Evan Sanders


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Published on February 02, 2015 22:46

In Victory

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Two days ago, January 31st – for the first time in my life I achieved a huge goal I had set out to accomplish. I had dreamed of the moment since I was 12, I had suffered through seven years of self-destructive habits that ruined my chances of reaching my dream, but through all of that…through all of the misery, pain, anguish…and even more – despite of myself, the dream stayed alive and I seized it.


I actually seized the day.


It’s hard for me to begin to describe to you what this whole process meant to me, how incredibly difficult it became right at the end, and the feelings I am feeling now. In my new book that comes out February 20th, I will get into it a little bit more, but for today, I want to roll with whatever comes up in my head as I’m sitting here writing away.


Pride. This deep sense of pride comes to mind. It’s pride without the slightest ounce of arrogance. It’s the type of pride that comes from battling away for years and finally coming out on top. Despite being at my lowest at times, I can tell you that over these past handful of years, never once did I actually believe that it couldn’t happen. I didn’t once say that it wasn’t possible and that I could never reach my dream. While furious amounts of opposition came to attack me at all times, especially during the last few days, I just kept my head down and tried to stay focused on making in through the next hour, day, and week.


Chains and shackles fell a few days ago.


I’m sure there are many out there who are struggling with things that are controlling them in their lives. In fact, I am sure of it. If any of you are like me, those vices and bad habits stick harder than sap to your fingers. If you let them, they will completely take over your life and any progress you have made trying to make moves forward towards your dreams. They will fight you in your mind, and once they win that battle they have also won the war. I’ve lost many many times on account of losing the mind game, but this time was different.


This time felt different from the beginning.


I had an incredible support system, new and amazing people were attracted into my life in the most positive of ways, and I finally began to believe in myself. That’s exactly where I want to head today with this.


Belief.


Without it, nothing will be seen through. With it, the world is full of possibilities. I truly do believe that the man I was before all of this happened had wonderful intentions and a fantastic vision on helping other people live powerful and impassioned lives – but he himself did not have that one thing that helped him truly see the power of his dreams. That all changed the other day. The feeling that struck me when it all happened went down deep inside of my bones…and I will forever be a changed man because of it.


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You don’t need to be perfect to start. It’s probably safe to say that most people who began their journey towards achieving excellence or greatness had massive issues to begin with. They were either at significant disadvantages because of their current situation or had some other obstacle to overcome. In many of the speeches I listen to on a daily basis, there is always a story of great strife before the hero was able to see the light. That’s how it is for all of us. We are all set up with certain cards, and instead of sitting there staring at the crappy hand you were given, you have to be able to learn how to play the game. You have to be able to have faith that something good will come along or that your talents will give you the ability to get to where you need to go – no matter what cards you have in your hand.


There are going to be some situations that will be incredibly hard to work your way out of and there will be situations for others that seem much easier. But it’s not our job to compare out lives against others. Everyone deals with different issues in their own ways and it’s our job to be accepting and empathetic instead of judgmental.


I will never look at someone in the gym who is overweight and judge them for being there. I can’t do it because I know what it’s like to struggle and I know that encouragement will take them miles beyond what either silence or discouragement could ever produce.


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Your dreams are very possible. They are so possible you might not even be aware of it. Your potential is massive. You have the ability to achieve things you probably never could even imagine. Once you go down the path of dreams, you will also find that you have the ability to go far far beyond what you even dreamed up in the first place. But you have to be willing to walk down that path. It’s scary. It’s going to take everything for you to not give up and run back to safety. But if you keep going, you will land on the shore one day after countless days in the open water and the satisfaction and pride you will have running through your veins will be something that is incredibly hard to replace. Ride that momentum. Don’t take too much time off. Success is one of the best motivators and placeholders for future success.


– Evan Sanders




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January 27, 2015

The Fight For My Life | Entering The Arena

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The Arena


I’ve dreamt of this place


What it would look like


Feel like


Smell like


I’ve dreamt of making it into this arena


This empty arena


In which one of the greatest battles


Will be fought in front of an audience of none


I entered 2 days ago


Feeling the crunch of gravel under my feet


Smelling the musty air


From battles of old


From failures of past


From mistakes made by others


With dreams that failed to last


I’ve made it to this place


To fight the battle I knew I could fight


But before, never quite believed


I would come out on the other side


And there it stands across from me


Looming


Impending


Dominating


Fierce


Eyes as black as night


Ready to destroy me


As it did so many times before


This creature


Built from all of my fears, doubts, and failures


Larger and stronger than ever


I’ve seen it pass over me before


I’ve seen what it’s capable of


I’ve known how it doesn’t have to fight me physically


But can instead infect my mind


And destroy me from the inside out


And yet there’s something much different about this day


Meeting it here in the arena


The place where men come to live or die


There’s something different in the air


There’s a tension


Not from my side, but from the other


It can sense it


It knows I’ve never been here before


But it knows that in my mind, I’ve been here for years


Fighting to get to this place


Preparing


Sweating


Toiling


Developing


So when the day came


The day I would be judged


I would come forth as a built man


One who created himself with his own hands


And unshackled his life from the chains of old


Knowing I had one fight left


One last attack


To finish it off


And I knew


That this was the only chance I would ever get


To face it like this in the arena


That empty arena


I hear the tip of his sword dragging on the ground


And I know this is my one shot


To break free


To defeat


To conquer what seemed so unconquerable


The battle for my life is here


This is the moment


It can only be seized


Here’s my charge.


- Evan Sanders


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Published on January 27, 2015 08:29

January 23, 2015

Invictus | Unconquerable Soul

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Out of the night that covers me, 


Black as the pit from pole to pole, 


I thank whatever gods may be 


For my unconquerable soul. 


In the fell clutch of circumstance 


I have not winced nor cried aloud. 


Under the bludgeonings of chance 


My head is bloody, but unbowed. 


Beyond this place of wrath and tears 


Looms but the Horror of the shade, 


And yet the menace of the years 


Finds and shall find me unafraid. 


It matters not how strait the gate, 


How charged with punishments the scroll, 


I am the master of my fate,


I am the captain of my soul.


- William Ernest Henley


Unconquerable soul. What does that mean to me? 


To me, that means…no matter what, you go on. You never stop chasing that dream. Dreams seem to have something else about them that strikes you deep down in your bones. You’re going to have to walk away from certain situations that aren’t good for you, but dreams are different. Dreams command something deep inside of you like nothing else does. Dreams are beyond powerful. Dreams are one thing that you can kill with inaction, but the roots never truly die. greatness-lies-within-invictus


 


I have 8 days left. 8 days until a dream comes to life. Every single day I am seeing more and more results and I truly do not know where all of this is going to end up. This week, my peak week, is going to deliver me into the best shape of my life. What’s a little bit surreal about all of this is that I’ve never actually seen myself like this before, and I have absolutely no idea what my final peak day is going to make me look like. 


I’m almost to the shore of the place I had envisioned 11 weeks ago. What a journey it has been. For the past 11 weeks I have worked harder than I ever have before and found out things about myself that I will never forget. I felt like I had so much more in the tank, and the answer to that was…I did. I really had a lot more. I was able to find that and now here I am so close to the finish line. 


It’s funny when you get to this place because you once saw it so far off into the distance and now here you are. It’s almost a feeling of “I never though I would make it” but deeper down below the surface you always knew. In fact, thats why I keep trying for years and years. I knew I could do it. I knew I could make my world change in front of my eyes if I gave it one good go. If I believed. 


The trouble was I didn’t truly believe in myself and therefore I never got even close to what I wanted. But this time I believed. It also helps to have someone believe in you as well. I couldn’t have arrived here if it wasn’t for the help of my trainer. He has walked with me through every single step of the way and I couldn’t have asked for more. 


Invictus…unconquerable soul. It’s just perfect. It really is. 


I’ve had some rough patches in my life…I think absolutely everyone has. I know I will have many more. But this has changed things. I used to fear these patches because they were always so bad and I knew they were coming. But now, it just feels different. I am on the brink of conquering one of my greatest visions and goals and everything feels like it is changing around me. It’s more of a feeling than a physical change to the reality around me. Although there are physical changes in my body, I guess…I just am seeing through a different set of eyes. 


But if we want to take this deeper on another level (which I am always guilty of doing) it could be that my changed body, stripped of years an years worth of crushed dreams and the injustices I have performed against it, is occupying a new space in the world. It’s possible. Everything is moving and changing…maybe I have recreated the type of energy I give off. Anything is possible. 


(This is where I took about 6 hours off from writing this post)


7 days tomorrow. 


I can’t believe I’m here. Years upon years of wishing and working for this…and I’m here? Like…I’ve made it? It’s just hard to understand right now – so I’m actually not trying to understand it, I’m just working as hard  as I can each day and I know that my world will change right in front of my eyes. All I need to do is hold onto the one thing that has helped me arrive here: my belief. 


There were a few moments today where I really did stop and appreciate what was going on. Frankly, I never even knew what I was capable of. And as for yesterdays post about having a body that occupies a different type of space and gives off different energy, it’s hard to argue with that idea because of the way that other people are interacting around me. People are smiling and watching…as if waiting to see what I can do. 


I just know deep inside of me that this is what I am supposed to be doing with my life. Not fitness – that’s not the passion. The passion is going after dreams – whatever they may be…and helping people achieve theirs as well. This process has changed my life permanently. They say that once your mind has expanded you can never shrink it back to it’s old form. That statement is nothing short of the truth. I can’t wait to see what else I am capable of. 


Next Saturday will be one of the happiest days of my life. 


Next Saturday, we beach it full bore on new land. 


- Evan Sanders 




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January 21, 2015

Blood On The Leaves

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How do you stop the bleeding


When your soul was already punctured?


The terror of loss


Like a wound straight to the heart


Tears drip down


Just as fast as the blood from your fingers


Draining


Soul slipping


Trying to find the time to breath


Only to be suffocated by more


Then you reach a point


Where you start losing yourself


Imbalanced


In pain


Trying to find a way back to center


With a broken compass


& right when you are about there


More wounds


More tears


More blood on the leaves


& you skip off course


As the tread gives way to the road


For a second you park


Pull over on the road of life


& shut everything out


To breathe


Breathe



Breathe



Breathe



Breathe



What once was lost


Can always be found


No matter how empty you feel


Words wound as much as knives


& they never are shallow scars


They are deep


Deep within our hearts and minds


To be forgiven


But much harder to be forgotten


You wonder how things could turn to this


How great things could turn


You into a pushpin for anger


& yet you know better than anyone


That there are some things you aren’t supposed to know


You’re just supposed to experience them


You look down and see that puddle of red


A little bit of you lost in this day


Deep within the woods


With that broken compass


& despite your past telling you to scream to the sky


To tear everything down


Writhe in pain


Rip everything apart



You breathe


& smile


You’ve stood in your flames before


Never laying down to turn to ash


So you light a match


Over that puddle of blood


& send that black smoke into the sky


- Evan Sanders


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Published on January 21, 2015 10:13

January 20, 2015

When You Have The Choice To Fly

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There are these moments when you have the choice to fly.

These days I’m learning more about myself than ever. Two weeks ago I crossed into waters never drifted upon before and from that point on, it has been new experience after new experience. The smell and sound of fresh waters is encouraging, exciting, full of adventure and scary at times. Dangers in the water come up on you fast and you have this choice…


You have the choice to fly. 

These choices are made every single day. When things get really really hard…everything burns and you feel like you have nothing left…your brain is telling you to stop…you have a choice to make – quit where you are at or finish what you are doing. I’ve been learning what it really means to never quit. Because that decision to stop doesn’t mean you didn’t work hard…it just means you weren’t competing with your potential.


That’s how you get results. 

Every single day you have to go out there and compete with the version of yourself that’s a little bit faster than you, a little bit stronger, a little bit more motivated than you. Eventually you catch up but then it just keeps running an arms length out of your reach. You can be discouraged by this or you could understand that you are getting better because you constantly have something to chase. You are consistently aiming higher and higher – and there’s nothing wrong with that. There’s nothing wrong with it as long as you are happy with getting better every single day. 


I’ve heard many say over my time blogging that “it sounds like I’ll never be happy with myself.” False. It has nothing to do with happiness actually. For 90% of my days, I am incredibly happy. I think that’s a damn good place to be. It’s about not being satisfied…about always staying hungry…and about never settling for your past performances. I’ve been a competitive knucklehead since I came out of the womb and I truly learned what it meant to compete when I starting facing off with myself. That’s when magic started to happen. 


Sports teach you many things about dedication, passion, desire, competition etc…but there has to be another switch turned on inside of you to get to a point where you can truly go after yourself. You have to dig into the mental side of the game and tap into visualization of what you are capable of. I had a small glimpse of that from a sports psychologist in college, but I only found out how influential your mind is when I started to take my new passions seriously. 


To those out there riding the fitness wave from New Year’s Resolutions – I want to congratulate you. But the fitness world has done you a bit of a disservice from the following claim. You’re going to hear something like this all the time…”It’s 70% food and 30% gym…It’s 100% food and 110% gym” or something of that nature. Those percentages aren’t exactly wrong, but they make you focus on the wrong things. It’s bigger than that. It’s 100% in your head. That’s it. In. Your. Head. 


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If you don’t believe that you can do it – then nothing out there in this world is going to help you. No weight loss pill. No drug. No expensive trainer. Nothing you can think of is going to fix it for you. The enemy is going to fight you in your mind over and over again because that’s the easiest place to destroy everything else. So start with your mind. Dedicate yourself to something and decide that no matter what you will achieve it. No matter what. 


Because it’s hard. 


It’s ridiculously hard and if you don’t have all of your own support behind you, then you will fail. That was my story for years and years and years. I didn’t truly believe I could do it…so guess what – I never did. That story will play over and over and over again if you fail to fix the problem – it’s all in your dome. 


So you have a choice. 

You have a choice in everything you do to make a greater effort because you know you can or to give up. You start to get really good at what you are doing when you view mediocre efforts as not even an effort at all. Nothing short of your best becomes the standard. You’re going to feel rocked every single time you do it, but trust me, you will get stronger and faster and better at your skill. Then, you gain confidence. Then, you start pushing yourself ever more. More confidence will arrive. You will go even harder. And WHEN ADVERSITY HITS….because it will…I guarantee it, you will be ready. You’ll be ready to roll right through it because you have a foundation that you have built.


No one can take that away from you. No one can strip the pride and courage you have built into your bones from the endless work you put into something. Don’t you dare let them try either. This is yours. No one elses. 


You’ve earned it. 


So fly. 


- Evan Sanders 



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January 19, 2015

& I Wonder


I wonder.


I wonder because I have no idea what to expect. All I know is what is right in front of me today. Isn’t that the way we are supposed to live? Isn’t that what I’ve been going for all these years? Right here. Right now. This moment?


It is.


That’s what you’ve been working for. In fact, this journey has shown you so much more than just living in the moment. It’s shown you…what it really means to be living. No matter how tired you are right now, you feel alive. You feel connected. You feel as if, for the very first time in a long time, that what you are doing is completely worthwhile.


It is.


It is worthwhile because it’s something that you love and respect more than anything.


I’ve come to respect the work. I’ve come to respect the burning feeling I have coursing through my muscles. I come to respect coming off a machine completely exhausted with my hands on my knees trying to catch my breath before the next set starts.


I hit a wall today. But I hit back.


I’m almost there. I can’t be stopped. Not now. Not with 12 days left. I’m so close I can taste it. I am there. All I have to do is put in these last two weeks of very hard work and what I had dreamed of for such a long time will be mine.


Yes I can.


Yes I can


– Evan Sanders


& I Wonder is a post from: Inspirational Stories About Life



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