Spending Or Investing: Increase Your Portfolio Now...

   Memorial Day Warm-up...

“Sexiness wears thin after a while and beauty fades, but to be married to a man who makes you laugh every day, ah, now that's a real treat.”

I use to hate to repopulate our blog with topics already addressed, but one will find - especially a writer - many things have already been covered, and it's not our job to leave them lie never touching beautiful topics we continue to deal with everyday. It's to read past glory then add our own. Hopefully someday, someone adds to me.

I go to a cool ass church with a pastor who is above all, a student, then teacher. He learns so that he may teach, and man did he teach. Even the cross haters get it when cool people talk, and this dude said some pretty cool things.

The best lines in any speech, be it sermon, state of the union, pep-talk, are those moments when the audience shuts the hell up and can't quite breathe. That feeling in your throat when you can't tell if a sock just found its way into your mouth, or if your eyes are gonna tear up. And if you don't think about something like baseball for a second, your reaction is going to be all over your face for everyone to see. These are vision moments.

Vision Moments:

Vision moments are those times when we are awarded our real sense of being. It's where "we" can know "us". Think about that, when you're revealed, and you really can know yourself. 

I believe these moments are around us everyday. The problem is they just usually need to look like a tornado instead of a cloud for us to go to our basement of realization. They both contain the same rain, but one makes ya get the hell up. 

I was clear enough, and present enough to see one of these "visions" pass before me, and well up in my throat just days ago, and what good timing.

When you begin to doubt. Right when you begin to question, "Am I doing what I am suppose to be doing?", "Am I missing something?", nature seems to always send you the answer. It may not be the one you want, but it will come when it is most needed, and as long as you're "present" you will see it. Then and only then can you decide to "invest" it...or "spend" it.

In fact, that's what the guy asked the followers, "Are you spending your life, or investing it"?

Spending:

Living pay check to pay check in the literal sense is a stressful way to get by...I know, I am an entrepreneur. I am aware of exactly what it's like living no check to no check, but I wouldn't change that for the world. In fact, I would qualify that as investing.

Becoming a professional spender pretty much ensures your investment portfolio is bare. And lack of investing your blessings guarantees you're committing, in my opinion, the worse sin there is "NOT LIVING UP TO YOUR POTENTIAL".

I believe we are so scared of what we could be, and the hardships or embarrassments that may clutter our path along the way, that we would just rather occupy our rather limited time with superfluous activities that are much less glorious, and in fact much more offensive when compared to how we were made and what we can do.

Spending  is fifteen hours in front of a video game when your marriage is falling apart. Spending is reoccurring eighty-hour work weeks in the name of supporting your family, all the while your kids only ask, "When's Dad getting home?" Spending is completing tasks that are just marks on a paper rather than notches in someone's heart.

Investing:

As you can imagine, Investing is exactly the opposite. Good investing means you continue to do it, and are constantly credited with more than when you began.Good investing means relationships you created whip back on you when you're in need it most, and make you better. After all, we all need someone to invest in us whether or not we invested in them first.

As I said, this Vision Moment struck me at a time when I wonder repeatedly, "Am I doing the right thing, can I do more? Am I making investments, or spending?"

My answer, as our own personal answers usually are, was relieving in an uneasy sorta way. It made me feel pleased with the right thing part, but anxious about the enough part. And this is where we must audit ourselves. I feel I have invested in others well for that is where I believe our lives should be spent...in the service of others. Yet I feel my life accountant could still tag me with a penalty or two when it comes to times I simply am busy to be busy, helping no one, finding potential no where including myself.

Today, audit your own investments and see if they are truly areturning relationships as dividends and helping others as profits. Or see if you're living day by day, check by check working for the man, staying busy to be active living the biggest sin of all....the sin of wasted potential.

Strength:

Thruster

RXD-95/115/135/155/185/205/225/245

Scaled-65/85/95/105/115/135/155

*Regional Rules. One shot at each weight as long as successful attempts. Twenty seconds per station, ten second transition.

For Score:

5-Clapping Push-ups

7-Rotational Box Jumps

9-Unbroken Wall Ball

AMRAP 8 Minutes

Post successful weight achieved and rounds and reps to comments.

Comments

[Mindy]

Spent the last few days with South Lake Tahoe CrossFit....my first drop-in experience. They welcomed me like family for the weekend!

Half Murph - 34:04 - running and doing a WOD at that altitude is a whole new challenge in itself!!

Jb, Ry, Chas, Kara, Min and all my trainers...thank you so much for all of your time and one on one attention, to help with modifications, form, mobility, injury, etc., over the past few months. You know you have a special box, a family rather, but you don't know really just how special it is until you have something to compare it to!! Your knowledge, and the time you all give to each of us is unmatched!!

[jb]

Mindy

Glad you got to hit other boxes, hope travels home r ok for ya...

[runmelrun]

totally changed the workout.
DB ground to overhead tabata instead of thrusters.
5 hspu/7 burpee wt jumps/9 kb amrap 8 min = 4 rounds + 5 reps
thanks Renee for doing hspu with me :)

[Bonnie Mac]

105/5+5++

14# wall ball & 24" box

Fun morning with everyone!

Runners - great work these last two days!

[jen w]

105/5 rds

[Shelly]

#85 Thruster
4 Rounds even
(m) push ups
+ for our "group run" after the WOD :)

[holly]

135 thrust
5 rds m no twisties for me on the box!

[NP]

"Thruster:
The barbell starts on the ground, and the athlete must elevate it into the rack position. There is no requirement to stand up fully before beginning the thruster, nor is standing up prohibited. The thruster begins when the athlete squats below parallel with the barbell racked on the shoulders (or at least below the chin). Then, in a single movement the athlete drives the barbell up out of the squat and overhead. The finishing position has the knees, hips and arms fully extended with the barbell stable over the heels. Once the athlete hits the bottom of the squat, there can be no rebend of the knees and/or hips, and the feet must remain stationary. The bar can stop near the top and be pressed out if necessary, but any descent of the barbell (after upward movement in the thruster has begun) constitutes a no-lift. Any stepping, splitting, repositioning of the feet, rebending the hips or knees or jerking all constitute a no-lift. Going up on the toes is permitted as long as the feet remain stationary. The athlete must wait for the judge's signal to drop the weight."

^^Games standards.. can't shuffle the feet or its a no rep!

[JCoby]

155 thruster
6 rds

Congrats to Mindy! Her "Plus Size" article is up on the CF mainsite affiliate page!!

[holly]

yay Mindy ! they shouldve put one of good pics up with it! Mindys a crossfit model NEVER a bad photo

[Bonnie Mac]

I concur! A pretty Min pic would have complemented that article on the mainsite quite nicely. Lucky PCF-ers get those all the time. Silly anorexic models (and the industry) thinking you're all hot shiz. Go skip a meal.

[Pj]

135 Thruster
5rds + 7

[Min]

You guys are too sweet. I'm glad everyone enjoyed the post so much... thank you for all the kind words and comments today and yesterday.

Jen and I were discussing the possibility of overhead squatting an actual person... we voted on using either Foster to Lunden to put overhead. Now THAT would be photo worthy!

115 thruster
Mod wko... 5 c2b pull ups and 7 ohs... got 6 rounds

[JN]

Nice display of one arm pushups Ken!!!

155 Thruster
185 power clean pr
6+2(m)

[Min]

No doubt... that was down right impressive, Ken. You too Sammy!

[keena]

95
4+12 m

[Ken]

Have to school the youngin's every once in awhile! Thanks big Jon!
Good times - thanks Sammy for the challenge.
155 Thruster
5rds, +5

[NP]

185 thruster
5 rounds + 12

[Dave]

135 Thruster
5 rounds +1

[Rachael]

115/6 rnds