By:Octaviano Luis Longoria, Certified Personal Trainer

People who live a healthy lifestyle are really just looking to improve their quality of life. They are living for a better tommorow, a healthier person, a happier person, a balanced person and to be examples for others around you. You must live to inspire, but you must first perspire. If you let go of who you are, you can become the person you want to be.

What drives you? What lifts you up and out of that bed in the morning? What is the purpose of just bothering with everyday chores or responsibilities? We all have different answers for each of these questions, and we all need to go the root and cause of your inspiration for taking the choice to live a healthy life. I believe that we all can agree on a common ground like wanting to improve our quality of life!

I want to have a better day everyday knowing that I am doing right by me and by what I believe! I believe we all do but we forget about or core beliefs and walk that fine line between good and bad. I know that I am faced with decisions everyday and I can choose what ever I want regardless if it is good or bad. Free will alows me to be enslave by addiction to a desire. The desire to be praised or the desire to be heard.

A man once made an analogy and compared our life to a garden. He told me that we will always have addictions in our lives it is about tending to the garden and pulling out the weeds! It is about choosing the right things to plant and that can be positive and have a positive outcome. It is about getting rid of the bad and replacing it with the good. Every action has a reaction as Newton stated so doesn't that mean that every positive reaction would have a positive reaction.

All I ask or propose to you is that you analyze your quality of life and how you can tend to your garden. I propse to you to be bold and do things right even when everyone else is jumping over the fire. Remmember if you play with fire you will be burned.