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Loriana Hernandez – 100 Day Challenge

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Loriana HernandezI don’t know Loriana Hernandez personally. I know of her through my sister, and, over this past year, have been following her personal journey to fight leukemia. She is the epitome of “Feed Your Good Dog”.

Loriana is a journalist and former news anchor for Good Day Austin, KTBC Fox 7. She is using her gifts as such to educate the rest of us about life with cancer, and how to fight back. Foremost, as one quickly sees from comments to her Facebook posts, Loriana is a devoted mother, wife, sister, daughter, and friend.

Following is Loriana’s Facebook post today where she responds to the question “How can we help?”. Her answer is the 100 Day Challenge, wherein Loriana challenges us to “100 days of new life” to correspond with “100 days of HER new life” which begins on, October 29, Day 1 of her bone marrow transplant. The 100 Day Challenge will motivate Loriana to stay strong during the arduous bone marrow transplant process and the rest of us to stay on track to better health.

I’m in . . . she had me at “how we can help”. What about you? Read on for Loriana’s thoughts on the 100 Day Challenge and how to participate.

September 30, 2014, Loriana Hernandez – 100 Day Challenge – Facebook Post

Good morning everyone!!
You asked how you can help. Here’s an idea.

Have you been putting off getting to the gym? Not motivated to lose the extra weight you need to be healthy ? Or just want to feel better and eat clean?

Why not make my first 100 days of MY NEW LIFE after my bone marrow transplant the first 100 days of YOUR new life?!! Get off the blood pressure meds, cholesterol meds, get yourself out of the pre-diabetic/diabetic danger zone. You know health and fitness are my passion and nothing would make me happier than to see more good come out of this.

The first 100 days are critical and are hell. When you are “too tired” to get up out of bed and workout let my story and pain be your motivation. You can post your success stories and it will bring happy tears and keep me going. I don’t want to let you guys down either so you will all keep me strong. I can’t give up so you can’t give up.

This all started after Aly Frisque Kerr and I spoke and she needed motivation and we came up with the 100 day challenge AND all night I thought “hey why can’t we challenge everyone?”

Aly will be blogging. She knows she can’t give up.

What do you think ? Want to join Aly?

Aly’s 100 day challenge starts DAY 1 of my transplant. Oct 29th. So you have time to throw out all that bad food. Haha.

#ArmorUp
Share and Spread the word. Let’s see how many people we can take the ‪#‎100DayChallenge‬
‪#‎NeverGIveUp‬

And, remember … Feed Your Good Dog so your good dog always wins!

Life Lessons – Former Navy SEAL Commander Commencement Speech 2014

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Navy Adm. William H. McRavenWe all know that social media can wreak havoc on, and forever negatively change, a person’s life with a single post or comment, but it can also be, and has been, used to spread good news and stories to become a source of inspiration for positive life changes. For instance, I may never have known about the brilliant commencement speech delivered by Naval Adm. William H. McRaven to the University of Texas graduating class of 2014, if it weren’t for Facebook. Thankfully, my dear friend, Teresa, shared the New York Times article “10 life lessons from the SEAL who led mission for bin Laden” written about the speech and there it was on my wall to read and share. Adm. McRaven, former commander of the Navy’s SEAL Team 3 and current commander of the US Special Operations Command — the man who led the mission to get Osama bin Laden – shares the lessons he learned during his Navy SEAL training. Although we know the process of learning these lessons would be anything but, his advice on how to live a better life is simply put.

Admiral McRaven opens his speech humbly as he offers “suggestions” to his young audience “that may help you on your way to a better world.” With each lesson, he relates an experience during SEAL training, and then states the lesson. If you want a peek inside this world, here’s your chance. The ten lessons to adopt if, as he puts it, you want a better world are:

  • Start off by making your bed.
  • Find someone to help you paddle.
  • Measure a person by the size of their heart, not the size of their flippers.
  • Get over being a sugar cookie and keep moving forward.
  • Don’t be afraid of the circuses.
  • Sometimes you have to slide down the obstacle head-first.
  • Don’t back down from the sharks.
  • You must be your very best in the darkest moment.
  • Start singing when you’re up to your neck in mud.
  • Don’t ever, ever ring the bell.

My favorites right now and those that I know will make a positive change in my world: Don’t be afraid of the circuses; start singing when you’re up to your neck in mud; and, don’t ever, ever ring the bell. What are yours?

Monday Motivational Quote

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To honor the life and work of the late Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968)

I say to you today, my friends, so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: “We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal.” ~ Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Read entire speech here or listen to I Have A Dream speech audio from Internet Archives

And, remember…Feed Your Good Dog, so your good dog always wins!

Monday Motivational Quote

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Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow. ~Melody Beattie

Source: The Quote Garden

And, remember…Feed Your Good Dog, so your good dog always wins!