Singapore Personal Trainer|The Fitness Truth

I have something inspirational to share. This is going to be a longer than usual post. However I promise you that it will be worth reading on.

Picture this - You have a loving spouse, beautiful joyful children, a great job and then…

You were told that you had only MONTHS TO LIVE.

What would you do with your life?

I asked myself this question for the last few nights and thought about my mother. When I was growing up (and am still growing up), I saw how my mother fought for us, me and my siblings. I saw her struggled for 7 years in a highly abusive marriage, saw her tortured by her then husband and I was forced to grow up quickly, became a mother, father and sister at 7 years old to my 6 year old brother. I watched my mother braved being a single mother before she found herself a good man whom soon become the only father I ever knew.

All was so blissful with a new family then the bad news came. When I was barely 10 years old, my mother was told that she only had months to live. OH MY GOD!

My parents called me one day and told me: “Diana you’ve to keep this low from your brothers. We have something to tell you.” I knew something was so wrong. My heart was damn in my mouth. And then the words came out… ” Mommy don’t have long to live…”

I did not cry. I just stared at my parents face and nodded. I understood. At 10 years old, I had seen enough torture to feel pain.

The irony was, deep down, I knew my mother was going to live LONGER than that! It was a believe I had about my mother. I love her so much and knew God would be kind to let her stay with us.

Days became weeks, weeks became months, months became years and today she is still alive. After close to 10 years, she is still very much there when I wake up and go to sleep.

My mother and I once had a conversation.

“Mummy, I know you’ll live long enough. I want to show you the world and take care of you and shower you with what you want.”

“Don’t worry a mother’s stength and love for her children will always give her the will to live. I will watch you grow up.”

She was so strong and always has been. When you look at my mother, you would never knew she had Thalassemia(blood disorder) and Heart problems. You never knew that she was the lady whom once had months to live. She looked like any ordinary woman out there on the streets!

My mother told me, one of her the secrets to her prolonged life was positive thinking.

My mother visualised that she’ll get better and that she was doing great and living her life. She drew positive energy around her and within her. She is a great testimony that visualization and positive thinking helps prolong your life.

Her next secret was love and faith. Her love and faith for me and my siblings, kept her soul alive. Literally. She told herself that she would live long enough to make sure my siblings and I grow up being people with good value system, morals and a strong desire to excel in life which would be selfless to their family and society.

That’s my mother for you. Sometimes when people around me or even people who just knew me said - “D, you are really strong aren’t you? You just won’t give up.” I would smile and remember my mother. I truly believe I possess the strength to face all the challenges I have from her. My mother unknowingly has build a strong character in me.

As I was playing the years of my mother’s life in my memories this Mothers’ Day, I found an answer to the question - What would I do with your life?

I would keep fighting on with whatever that I do and NEVER give up. I will make a difference in lives of others in every way that I can. It starts from now where I reach out to people about the importance of Health and Fitness and developing a strong inner-belief in themselves. IMPOSSIBLE IS NOTHING.

Till, today I still have adults telling me that Health and Fitness is not their number 1 priority in life. I used to think that way too, being a fiercely career minded individual until I felt burnt out clocking in the hours.

I learnt the HARD WAY and I do not want you to suffer the same!!!

Now look at it in another perspective.

Yes our family and career may be the outmost priority. However if you are going to fall ill, be easily succumbed to diseases, is that not shortening your life span to 1) Spend time with your family 2) Be highly productive and build a successful career?

If you understand where I am coming from, you’ll realise that taking care of your well-being emcompases every other aspects in your life. It is a priceless investment anyone can ever make.

With this, I would like to share with you one of my many inspirations in life, Prof Randy Pausch. He has God knows probably months or even weeks/days more to live.

He is such an inspiration to me and millions of others in the world. Watching this video has made an impact in my life that it had be thinking about my mother.

I decided that to keep you motivated to start taking care of your Health and Fitness and Life, was to share this video and my life story.

Now, for a person who has Pacreatic Cancer and not much time to live, he can do Clap Push-Ups which would put a lot of YOU out there whom are very healthy, with no deadly disease and some time on your hand to SHAME!!!

BE MOTIVATED. BE VERY MOTIVATED.

Prof Randy Pausch’s “The Last Lecture” On The Oprah Winfrey Show (Sep 07)

Prof Randy Pausch’s Final Farewell (May 08)

Hope you actually clicked on the play button and really watch the videos. You won’t regret it.

TAKE ACTION NOW!