BeckyKate

Happiness is a journey, not a destination. This is mine.

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Tuesday at the office... #rivieraboats #officelife #goldcoast #boatdays #oceanlover

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M O N D A Y B L U E S

Love a sunrise!

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Fun with Kayla?

So today I decided to start the Kayla Itsines 12 Week BBG Challenge.

I’m not a novice to the gym. I train 4-5 times a week, generally weights with the occasional HIIT session chucked in there just to make me remember why I prefer doing weights.

I have been getting a bit bored with my programs so decided to give this a try and let me tell you, 7 minutes has never felt so god damn long in all my life.

Kayla doesn’t ease you into it. First session is legs and cardio. I thought I would be ok, I squat regularly, I do two leg sessions each week at the gym... but this was a brand new kind of hell. The lactic acid builds up in your legs so fast that by the second set of jump squats all you can think is ‘THESE QUADS ARE ON FIIIRE!”

It was challenging, torturous, painful, mentally-draining, physically destroying and worst of all, only 4 sets of 7 minutes. It’s like the world’s worst trick! You think 7 minutes will be a breeze, but it’s far from it. If I only had 7 minutes left to live I would do Kayla’s circuit because it’s the longest 7 minutes I have ever experienced.

I look forward to tomorrow, when I’ll be cursing Kayla because driving my manual car has never been so excruciating and going to the toilet presents a whole array of issues, such as ‘How am I going to get down there’ followed by ‘How am I going to stand up’.

I look forward to the next 12 weeks and being able to say at the end that I have survived the Kayla epidemic that is invading all my social media platforms, and the world.

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Public holiday bliss! This place makes my soul happy.

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Home is where the heart is

Not sure

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Goodbye Adelaide, it's been an interesting ride. On to the next chapter!

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Started my baby Heisenberg again! Wasn’t happy with the first version but much happier with this. For the #Ageswap comp #arts_hype #sketchbookpro #artist #art #draw #breakingbad #heisenberg #walterwhite #iamtheonewhoknocks

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This is what my amazing fiancé does when he's not working or catering to my demands!

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Can't wait to be back at my happy place! Bring on Saturday!

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Actually, I just woke up one day and decided I didn't want to feel like that anymore, or ever again. So I changed. Just like that.

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Suburban compliments.

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Coffee solves everything!

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Wake Up!

“Actually, I just woke up one day and decided I didn’t want to feel like that anymore, or ever again. So I changed. Just like that.”

It sounds like such a stupid concept. How can it be that simple? Change is scary, change is hard! What if the changes make your life worse? If you’re already miserable then wake up. Change is the best thing for you. You just need to wake up, and decide to change.

It does sound like a ridiculous concept at first, but it works. I was stuck in a dead-end job, a dead-end relationship and a dead-end life. The only thing I felt like I had control over was my body. I was training to be a fitness model. I felt as though if I could get on a stage and show everybody I had abs and minimal body fat, I would be a winner. To be honest, I was miserable and I was lost and the only person to blame was myself.

I finally took responsibility for my own unhappiness and realised that nobody was going to change my life for me. I had to have the courage to do it myself.

So I split up with my partner of nearly 5 years. He wasn’t a bad guy. In fact, he was a really nice guy. He just wasn’t the right guy. He didn’t have any drive or ambition and he was happy living a simple life. The simple life that made him happy made me feel unaccomplished and angry and I used to blame him. It was not his fault at all. So I made the decision that would cause my life to change drastically forever.

I quit my dead-end job at a bar, moved home with my mum, and have never felt such an incredible sense of relief. I have never once looked back with regret and moving forwards, I know that I am totally in control of wherever my life goes, and I am so excited about the journey!

Taking ownership of your own happiness is incredibly empowering, and it’s also a reality check. You can’t blame anybody else for your life. You have the opportunity to make your own choices, make your own changes and make your own plans.

So be brave, wake up, and make a change. Just like that.