Day 14: #fallbackintoshape2017. It's a rainy day, which I absolutely love as it reminds me of home. I've been working myself hard so I think a little relaxing yoga is in order for today's sweat sesh.

My main focus in this challenge has been to up my mental game and really find some things to beef that up. I know that to be a great leader I need to be open to and constantly in pursuit of learning. Plus, I love to learn. I don't think we can have too much knowledge!

In Funny Side Up today Rita told me: "Your mind only knows what you tell it (62)." She talked about interviewing Muhammed Ali and learning of his famous affirmation "I am the greatest." She said that he admittedly didn't start out the greatest but that the mantra kept him going. He believed in it. And it came true. Never give up on your dreams, and more importantly, yourself.

I am going to be successful no matter what. I know how powerful the mind is and how much belief creates my own experiences. I am tired of shrinking so that other people don't feel small. And spending my valuable time with people who actively choose not to be positive. In order for me to grow I have to be around people who challenge me to be my best and who are chasing their own dreams.

This is why I admire my husband so much. He had a rough upbringing and there was (and still is) no accountability in his family. It's dog-eat-dog, everything's a competition, aggression and compulsive lying but putting on a happy face and pretending everything is hunky-dory sort of environment. I don't know how he is who he is coming from where he did. But since we've been married he has become such an incredibly strong person. He has always been almost obnoxiously positive, unconditionally loving and forgiving man I've ever met. In the beginning I honestly wondered if he was faking it - and to some extent he was - faking it til he could make it. It was a coping mechanism for so long and he took on a parental role at a young age. He couldn't let anyone else see he was struggling. He was the rock.

Recently though, he's started to see himself a bit more like the rest of us do: awesome! He is an amazing human being. And even when he isn't feeling 100% or like he has everything under control he never blinks at going after his dreams. Nobody can tell him what he will or won't become. He's determined. He knows what he wants and where he is going. This inspires me to pick myself back up (about weekly) when I am not seeing results quickly enough and want to (temporarily) throw in the towel on my aspirations.

I'm so grateful for such a positive partner in my life that is always supportive of the things I want to do, however crazy or out there they seem at the time.