Posts filed under 'Motivation'
Hey it’s great to see you came back! I only say that because I didn’t think you would be back after our last meeting! If my memory serves me right I came down a little hard on you because you were procrastinating…. on starting your own training program! Wait a minute I can’t believe my eyes…. is that tuna salad your eating! Gee I take what I said back! I think you just needed a little wake-up call to get moving…. because it seems to me that your eating alot healthier also you look like you toned up! Well this only tells me one thing…. you can expect me to continue to be tough on you! Remember I’m here for you! I’ll do whatever it takes to get you moving in the right direction….. without any EXCUSES!!
Actually you remind me of some of my clients… I used to train in my personal training days! Gee I think you just helped me out….. on what our next discussion is going to be about! I’m going to share with you…. what motivated me into becoming a personal trainer! I know what your thinking… your thinking what alot of people have told me! There question to me was simply this …. Nino how can you be a personal trainer with your disability? It’s just impossible to imagine! I guess they were in for another huge surprise!
Well it’s like I told you before when I was repeatedly told by critics…. that I wouldn’t be able to compete in bodybuilding and be successful with my disability! Well if I recall they were wrong because I not only became successful…. but was then known as “The No Excuse Natural Bodybuilder”! Well God told me this was no different….. HE was going to now also make me known as “The No Excuse Personal Trainer”! Gee I felt in a strange way “special” that God has given me these nicknames…. not by any means did I want special treatment! I believe what God was telling me was simple! I was going to be successful in both categories without making excuses….. for my disability!
In my next blog…. I’m going to share with you how God helped me once again to acheive what many have told me impossible!! I’ll be totally honest with you I was getting sick and tired of hearing that word “IMPOSSIBLE”! I sincerely hope that this will inspire and motivate other people with disabilities… to start accomplishing things that they’ve been told by others to be impossible! Like you heard me say time and time again if you just believe in yourself and in God…. nothing is impossible! Ok I think you get my point so let’s get moving!
Are you ready?
Here’s how I got the nickname “The No Excuse Personal Trainer”!
Well I knew the first thing I had to do was to get my training certification…. I also knew that I was probably the only one taking the exam with a physical disability! On the day of the exam the instructor said to me….. Gee in all my years of giving this exam Nino your the first! I knew what he was getting at…. so I just told him those famous two words “No Excuses”! So I passed with flying colors….. next step was to get a job! Believe me I knew it wasn’t going to be that easy for me…. let’s face it there aren’t too many trainer’s out there with a physical disability who work at a gym! I mean who would have enough nerve to even try…… remember it’s just impossible to imagine!
Well what do you know as luck would have it…. a new gym was opening up where I lived looking for some trainers! So I decided to go and apply…. but I was not expecting what was about to happen when I walked through the doors! One of the owners standing at the front counter…. asked me how could he help me! I told him I was here to apply for the personal trainer position! I wish you could have seen his expression on his face… it was a look of shock! So I filled out the application and gave it to him…. but I wasn’t expecting what was coming next! I guess you can say it was my turn to be shocked! He asked me….. Nino when can you start?
Well the news quickly traveled that this new gym called “VISIONS” had a personal trainer named Nino…. that people just had to go and checkout!! Well your just going to be amazed of what I’m about to tell you next! I couldn’t believe my eyes… there were a line of members who were signing up with me to train them! I’m sorry but I just had to ask a client why “ME”! This was the response I got….. Nino I’ve been looking for a trainer like you for a long time! Nino I’ve been making tons of excuses why I don’t have time to workout! I look at you and you certainly made the time for yourself…. with definitely no room for any excuses! Can you help me achieve a “No Excuse” physique and attitude like you? I knew that God specialized me with tremendous skills in those two areas…. I was ready to start changing peoples lives!
So there you have it…. Gods reason for giving me the nickname “The “No Excuse” Personal Trainer! I strongly suggest that my critics go back and define the word “impossible” in the dictionary! I know how I would define it…. there is no such thing as “impossible” for me in my life! I sincerely hope that this message was extremely inspiring and motivational…. for my fellow disabled friends! I’ll be honest with you I don’t like using the word “disabled”!
Listen all it will keep you from doing …. is to stop you from living your life to the fullest! I certainly know one thing I know I have to this point…. and I’ll continue thanks to God! Don’t you think it’s about time you find out…. what you’ve been missing out on in your life!! Well I suggest that you start proving to your critics…. about how wrong they’ve been about what you can accomplish in your life with your disability!! I’ll make one thing clear to you! I use the word “disability” very loosely in my life…. and so should you without any excuses!!
February 25th, 2007
Hey how have things been going for you since the start of The New Year? I’ve been wanting to ask you how your resolution is going so far! If I recall you were going to start your own training regimen…. well how has that been going so far? Wait just one minute what is that your eating….. a Big Mac, large fries and a shake! Well I think you just answered my question in a big way…. in how your resolution has been going, it’s not! I sincerely hope that you have a good excuse for me…. remember their isn’t one good enough for me so let me hear it! Gee Nino I don’t have your will power! In reading your story it said…. that you blew up to 240lbs!! I’ve had one question that I’ve been dying to ask you Nino! How did you go about losing all that weight?
Well today must be your lucky day my friend! In my next blog…. I’m going to let the cat out of the bag and tell you the secret to my weight loss! Well I guess it won’t be a secret any longer… that’s ok because my mission is to help you.. remember? I will do what ever it takes to motivate you to finally start your resolution…. without anymore EXCUSES! Listen if I have to I’ll start telling you all my secrets to my success…just so you can finally start living your life in the way you should be with NO EXCUSES!! Well I think it’s time that you put down that Big Mac and listen closley! I have a strong feeling once I tell you my secret to my weight loss….. your not going to be eating Big Mac’s anymore!!
Are you ready??
Ok…. here we go!!
Well let me first say that it was extremely difficult for me to even think about how I was going to go about losing the weight! It was getting very difficult for me to carry all 240lbs on my crutches…. let alone being able to take care of myself! I know your probably wondering why I allowed myself to get at such a high weight! Well after the corrective surgery in attempting to straighten out my feet failed…. I became depressed! I felt the only solution was to eat everything in site!! Then I had a wake-up call my doctors told me if I didn’t lose weight… I was going to be placed in a wheel chair!
So that’s when the light bulb started to go off in my head! I knew I wasn’t going to allow myself to be confined to a wheel chair….. so I needed to take quick action!! I took a long look in the mirror…. and said good-bye to my 240lbs frame it’s time for a change! I also knew it was going to be a challenge for me to transform my body… with a disability!! Well as you know I just love to be challenged… even back then God planted those famous two words in me NO EXCUSES!!
Well are you ready for my secret??
Here it is!
Believe or not there is no secret…. you’ve known it all along since day one of my mission! Would you like to take a chance and tell me what it is? Ok let me help you out it should really be of no shock to you…. NO EXCUSES!! I knew what I had to do to change my lifestyle…. without making any EXCUSES about my situation! Listen I’m not trying to be funny here! If you thought I was going to tell something HUGE that would blow your mind….. sorry to have disappointed you! I simiply did what you’ve been putting off…. I started a workout program and drastically changed my eating habits and never looked back!
So there you have it…. my secret to my incredible weight loss!! Like I’ve said you’ve known it all along! I sincerely feel that our society today is hooked on the fact…. that they need to take the miracle pill to lose the weight! I’m sorry that’s just another excuse they have come up with…. instead of achieving it the old fashioned way!! Ok your probably wondering on what that is it’s simple….. do it the Nino way NO EXCUSES!! I think it’s time for you to put down that Big Mac….. and finally start your resolution!
Listen I’m not telling you it’s going to be easy…. you might have to break a sweat! I say it’s time to go for it because that’s the only way… I’ve gotten to where I am today by sweating my butt off!! Well it’s up to you!You can keep eating those Big Mac’s and hardening your arteries, or start hardening your muscles! I definitely know what I’ve chosen! How about you??
February 18th, 2007
Hey it’s GREAT to see YOU again! How are things going with YOU lately? I CERTAINLY hope YOUR answer is going to make MY day! YOU should be feeling like ME GREAT…. since NINO’S MISSION has arrived! Remember NO EXCUSES!! Let ME first go on the record to say I’ve noticed a little CHANGE in YOU…. and YOUR probably wondering on what that might be! Well I’m about to tell YOU… YOUR head is UP alot HIGHER than it was at the start of MY MISSION! I CERTAINLY wouldn’t want YOU to start thinking that I’ve SUCCESSFULLY completed MY MISSION!! Well even if I HAD… God would DEFINITELY tell ME the opposite, it’s ONLY just BEGUN!! Well before YOU pat YOURSELF on the back…. WE have ALOT more ground to cover! So what do you say…. WE get started on our NEXT discussion!
Are YOU ready?
OK…. here we go again!
Well as YOU now know… MY FAITH and TRUST in God is VERY strong! Like I’ve said over and over to YOU, I WOULDN”T be where I am today if it weren’t for HIM!! I guess YOU can go as far to say… God is MY one and ONLY idol that I look up to! GEE I’m so EXCITED I just let the cat out of the bag…. on what MY next blog is about! Who is Your Idol? I’ll give YOU some time to think about it… I’m going to EXPAND more on WHY God is MY only idol in life! I REALLY want YOU to listen CLOSELY… because I also want YOU to understand there’s NO comparison when it comes to GOD!
Well I can first go by saying… God has created with his OWN human hands the EARTH and ALL living things! I don’t know ANYONE else who has done that… do YOU? OK maybe YOUR not impressed by that ONE! I think this ONE might convice YOU… HE can MOVE moutains and PART the sea’s with a BLINK of an EYE! When is the last time YOU heard Arnold Schwarzenegger do that! LISTEN I can go on and on with this…. the message I’m trying to get across to YOU is quite SIMPLE! There is ABSOULUTLEY NO living being ABOVE GOD….. HE’S in a class ALL by HIMSELF!! If YOU know ANYONE who is ABOVE God, I DEFINITLEY would like to meet this SUPER HUMAN! Good luck on YOUR search…. because there is NO ONE GREATER than GOD!
It’s that time again!
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Who is YOUR Idol?
Listen YOU shouldn’t really have a tough time….giving ME an answer this time around! I GET IT your probably STILL idolizing those professional athletes, who CAN’T stop talking about how GREAT they are! GEE I hate to break it to BOTH of YOU….GOD has allowed THEM such status! Make NO mistake GOD can TAKE ALL their GREATNESS away…..with a snap of a finger! I tell YOU what DON’T take MY word for it …WHY NO ONE is above GOD I challenge YOU to read THE HOLY BIBLE!! I promise YOU there are SEVERAL times, where the word IDOL is mentioned! YOU will see for YOURSELF GOD is the ONE and ONLY idol….YOU should have in life! If YOU read further YOU’LL see what happens to those people, who put themselves ABOVE God! Let ME just say the END result is NOT good!
Listen I’m NOT at all telling YOU….who YOU should be idolizing! I KNOW from MY own personal experience, since I’ve put God FIRST in MY life it’s been an UNBELIEVABLE ride so far!! I REALLY want YOU to start EXPERIENCING that same ride, because once YOUR on….. there’s NO getting off! I DEFINITELY feel that YOU should NOT be patting YOURSELF, on the BACK just yet!! I STRONGLY suggest to YOU stop making EXCUSES, for why YOUR NOT putting God at the TOP! Do I have to keep reminding YOU of the FACT… that it’s because of God SACRIFICING his life so YOU can have ONE!! How can YOU NOT put God as YOUR ONE and ONLY idol after that! I DEFINITELY don’t know ANYONE who would be WILLING, to give their LIFE for YOURS!! Like I said I ONLY have ONE idol…. GOD and so should YOU!! NO EXCUSES remember!!
February 3rd, 2007
Hello again! It’s GREAT to see that YOU came back, because business is about to pick up! By now we have covered alot areas in reguards to MY MISSION! I feel that I’m molding a pretty well laid out plan on the direction that I want YOU to start taking in YOUR life from now on! I TRULY feel the direction that YOU have taken to this point, Has you putting LIMITS on what YOU can accomplish! I’ll be straight with you GOD and I have a HUGE problem with that approach! I know for a fact God has put NO LIMITS in MY life, for ALL the things that I have accomplished for HIM so far!
I DEFINITELY know God has NO plans for that to change for ME, but God’s plan for YOU has ALREADY begun to change! In case YOU don’t know what that is it’s been right in front of YOU…. NINO’S MISSION! Soon those LIMITS you’ve been putting on yourself will END, because more LIMITS come more EXCUSES!! This is Totally UNACCEPTABLE behavior for God and MYSELF, and so should it be for YOU!! What a way to get things brewing for our next discussion!
Are you ready?
Here we go once again!
There is one question that I’ve been asked by many people, and I have a feeling that YOU’VE been dying to ask me that same question! Nino what motivated you to start bodybuilding? Well in this next blog, I’m going to tell you TWO factors that lead up to MY decision to start bodybuilding! I’m hoping after I tell YOU it will light a fire in YOU, to do something that someone has told YOU for years that it can’t be done! Well by now YOU know MY answer to that, NO EXCUSES!
I would have to say the first factor that lead up to my start to bodybuild, was when I was told by Doctors I would be VERY limited in the things I could do! Well were they in for a SURPRISE!! God told ME that HE was going to make ME the EXCEPTION to their rule, so GOD chose bodybuilding for ME! Well let ME go on the record to say God sure picked a sport, that is EXTREMELY tough to compete in let alone with a DISABILITY and be SUCCESSFUL!! Well as YOU see by MY accomplishments how WRONG they were. My message is simple here I DIDN’T allow my doctors to control MY LIFE, I let GOD take the wheel instead and so should YOU!
The second and MOST important factor was when I was REPEATEDLY told, by all the critics out there I WOULDN”T be able to compete in open-classes! They told ME I should try my luck in the wheel chair division and save myself the embarrasement! GEE I have a STRONG feeling that their the ONE’S feeling EMBARRASSED…. I’m feeling GREAT! NOW knowing how SUCCESSFUL I’ve been in competing in open-classes with the WILL of GOD…. and I have no intentions to STOP!! I guess they DEFINITLEY didn’t know, who they were talking to until NOW!! The message that YOU should be getting here is DON’T judge a book by its cover! YOU might be SURPRISED on what YOU find, when YOU open it up!! A MOST MUSCULAR picture of ME telling YOU…. NO EXCUSES!!
I DEFINITLEY know that these two factors, have set a FIRE in ME that will NEVER be put out! I will continue with the STRENGTH of God, to bring MY bodybuilding to a WHOLE new level of SUCCESS!! Listen I REALLY hope that I was able to add fuel, to start a fire in YOU to accomplish something that YOU have been told for year’s to be IMPOSSIBLE!! Well that’s about to STOP right? It’s time for YOU to start standing up for YOURSELF, and show those critics a thing or two about LIMITS!! There’s only ONE limit that God has set for ME that’s to obey the SPEED LIMIT, when driving and the same goes for YOU!! Remember this is a team effort from now on…. NO more EXCUSES!!
January 20th, 2007
Welcome back! Before we start talking about our next topic of discussion I want to share with you about what I’ve been seeing ALREADY with my MISSION! I’ve been reading the comments that people have been leaving me, in reguards to MY blogs that I’ve written to this point! I’m very EXCITED to see how much of a POSITIVE effect my MISSION is beginning to have on their lives! That ONLY tells me that my MISSION that God has me on, is off to a very SUCCESSFUL start!
Like I pointed out to YOU in the beginning I have several goals I’m hoping to accomplish here, I TRULY feel that two of them are well on there way to being SUCCESSFUL! I hope that YOU have an idea to what they are? Let me help you…. to MOTIVATE AND EDUCATE people, in how to start living a “NO EXCUSE” wonderful NEW life! If I CAN achieve everything that I’ve done to this point with a DISABILITY and be SUCCESSFUL, without making EXCUSES so can YOU!
That brings us to our next topic of discussion, I SINCERELY feel that my next blog will change YOUR view in how YOU define a disability! I hope by now YOU are becoming better educated in this area, in what YOUR answer should be! Before you give me your answer if YOU haven’t noticed, I have a disability at least I think I do! I know what your probably thinking GEE NINO I completely forgot, It’s hard to believe that YOU even have a disability!That’s EXACTLY my point I DON’T have a disability, it ALL depends on how you define it!
It’s VERY simple in how I define MY disability, as a TREMENDOUS blessing thanks to GOD! I truly believe that God has blessed ME with THREE important characteristics, that we ALL should have! They are CREATIVITY, STRONG WILL, and last but not least a NO EXCUSE attitude! What I’m about to say next might surprise YOU! I SINCERELY feel that I wouldn’t have achieved everything that I have been telling you, if it weren’t for MY disability! God has shown me how to UTILIZE these three characteristics VERY effectively in my life in helping to show others that I am NO different than they are! So now you know how I define MY disability a REAL BLESSING from GOD! I will not STOP until YOU too share MY same view, because I TRULY feel that our society needs a WAKE-UP CALL! God has chosen ME, as that being an IMPORTANT part of MY MISSION! I TRULY feel that our society has been ASLEEP, way to long on this subject! Don’t YOU agree?
It’s that time again!
How do YOU define a disability??
I DEFINITELY have given you some time to think about it, I hope you have come up with the CORRECT answer! If your still thinking of one that’s fine, God has ALSO blessed me with ALOT of patients! Listen I’m not going to pressure YOU on the answer that I’m hoping to hear! I truly feel when your ready to tell me, It might be one that even shocks YOU! I’ve NEVER been shocked, with an answer anybody has given to me yet! Who knows YOU might be the first, YOU would DEFINITELY bring a smile to my face! If it’s NOT going to be the answer that I was HOPING for, that’s OK that will just tell ME YOU need to be EDUCATED more! I will NOT stop UNTIL YOU define a disability like the way I do, and that is “WHAT DISABILITY” I’ve been blessed by God!! I REALLY want YOU to have that same ATTITUDE, because that is the ONLY way to LIVE!!
In the meantime I will continue to EDUCATE and MOTIVATE you, UNTIL I feel that MY message is LOUD and CLEAR to YOU and the WORLD!!! In case YOU need a refresher on what that message is, a DISABILITY is only that if YOU think of it that way!! Unlike ME I’ve taken MY disability and turned it AROUND, to say “I CAN” NO EXCUSES and so should YOU!!
January 12th, 2007
Hello again and Welcome back! I see YOU made it through the Christmas hustle and bussle! GREAT because we ALL know what comes next, that’s right NEW YEAR’S! YOU know the time when everyone makes those resolutions to themselves that ONLY a handful of people accomplish! Well in this next blog I’m going to discuss some of MY resolutions and try to help YOU, have a NO EXCUSE attitude to follow through with YOUR resolutions this year and the years to follow! I believe NINO’S MISSION has arrived just in time, wouldn’t YOU agree! By the time I’m done telling YOU my resolutions and knowing without ANY doubt GOD will help ME accomplish them successfully, I’m CONFIDENT that YOU will end up accomplishing YOUR resolutions also, because now YOU have NO EXCUSES not to!
Are you ready?
I hope by NOW the picture has become much clearer for YOU than it did in the beginning! If NOT maybe after sharing my two resolutions with you, the picture will become crystal clear I at least hope it will! First I’m going to teach you how to see YOUR resolutions through successfully from start to finish without ANY EXCUSES! Your probably NOT used to that are YOU! Well I got news for you better start getting used to having ME around because that’s the way it’s going to be from now on!
I realize the commitment it takes to start a resolution, let alone finish one successfully that you can be proud of! For instance wouldn’t YOU love to prove to yourself that YOU can complete a resolution this year because of those famous TWO words, that’s right YOU guessed right NO EXCUSES! I’m VERY pleased to see that you’ve been paying ALOT more attention this time around. That only tells me that YOU are interested in learning more about MY MISSION! Wouldn’t it be GREAT to FINALLY complete ALL those resolutions,that YOU have piled up over the years! The ONLY thing that was keeping YOU from accomplishing them, were those EXCUSES YOU were making which kept you from completing them successfully! Listen I’m NOT trying to make YOU feel guilty.. ok your right I am it’s for your own good!
On to MY second resolution, I truly feel that this ONE will even put ME to the TEST! God has chosen ME for this mission NOT only to help MOTIVATE and to help YOU build a NO EXCUSE attitude, but also to help YOU build a stronger relationship with HIM! I know for ME GOD has done AMAZING things in MY life, that could NEVER have happened WITHOUT HIM at the helm! Just imagine ALL the AMAZING things that GOD can start doing in your life, all HE wants is for YOU to trust HIM with EVERY situation in your LIFE! So why NOT start the NEW YEAR off, by allowing GOD to come into YOUR life! I PROMISE you, that will be the BEST resolution YOU could make happen this year! If YOU do, I ONLY see God doing AMAZING things in your life, wouldn’t that be a TREAT!
It’s that time again! I’m going to ask YOU that same question! What’s your NEW YEAR’S resolution? After all that I’ve told you… you still need time to think of ONE! Listen God has me on a MISSION, time is of the essence! I’ll help you with ONE here it is, NO MORE EXCUSES! Let God in your life and HE will make sure, that your resolutions won’t be a DREAM from now on but REALITY!
I sincerely hope that I was able to give YOU a CLEAR picture, to see how your NEW YEAR is going to begin! I’ll do everything in my power that GOD gives me, to change your path in life to a MOTTO that YOU will live by from NOW on! In case you have forgotten; I’m beginning to feel like a broken record, NO EXCUSES!! Just let GOD take YOU by the hand, and walk you through your resolutions from the beginning to the end. The result being SUCCESS!! The one thing I know is I’m off to a GREAT start with MY resolutions this year! How about YOU??
January 1st, 2007
Hello Again and happy holidays! Before I get started, I first want to give thanks. I want to give thanks to God for giving me this opportunity to publish a website. It’s been like an early Christmas gift to me! I also give thanks to HIM for bringing a group of VERY special people into my life, who helped make NINO’S MISSION on the Internet possible!
It’s a privilege and a great GREAT opportunity to be able to share with YOU and many others MY life story, and to share how I’ve overcome so many challenges to get where I am today. It’s all about those two words: NO EXCUSES! To be able to compete in bodybuilding and to share, motivate and inspire others are some of the best gifts that I could ask for.
Although GOD has blessed me with many gifts, the first is that HE gave me life! Just think, if it weren’t for HIM, none of US would even be here on this earth and yet we sometimes take life itself for granted! God has endowed all of us with special gifts from the day we were born. I am truly grateful HE has shown me what my gifts are and MANY ways to utilize my gifts to help others while glorifying him!
I truly believe that God has used me - through my success in bodybuilding - to help show every person that they has a gift and that they can not only achieve personal success, happiness and fulfillment by finding and using their gifts, but also motivate and inspire others in the process!
I’m now going to ask You the million dollar question that everyone should be asking themselves: What gift has GOD given YOU?
Some people feel as if only other people were given special gifts. Sometimes they even feel as though things have been taken away from them or kept out of their reach… maybe due to a disability????
Well, if you don’t think you were given any gifts, boy are YOU in for a SURPRISE! Believe it or not, God has given every single person on this planet a special gift. It simply doesn’t occur to some people that maybe what looks like a disadvantage may turn out to be a gift. Or maybe your gift is plain to see. Maybe it’s in sports, music or even politics - they’re ALL given to YOU by GOD!
Here’s another MILLION dollar question! Have you been using your gifts to give glory to GOD and to help others? Or have you been giving yourself all the praise instead? I guess in order for you to know that, you have to have a relationship with him! Personally, I know for a fact, that it was God who gave me my gifts and it’s because of GOD that I’ve been successful in everything I have done to this point in my life, so I give him the credit. I also know that I will continue to use the gifts that I’ve been given, for as long as I’m alive, for GOD’S glory and to help others!
Listen, during this holiday season when we are all focused on the giving and receiving or material gifts, I would like to encourage you to really think about the gifts you already have - the ones you were born with - the ones that can’t be bought or sold. Then ask yourself those big questions again: Have you even recognized and appreciated these gifts you already have, and if so, have you ever even “opened” them?
December 18th, 2006
Welcome Back! I hope by now you are seeing a pattern in the blogs that I’ve written so far. Whether it be a blog on training, goals, motivation or any other subject, the all share ONE theme! Do you know what it is? I certainly hope by now that you do, or haven’t been paying attention!
If you didn’t guess already, the answer is… “NO EXCUSES”!
I don’t care what excuse you try to sell me, there’s never one good enough!
In todays blog, I’m going to ask you a question, which is…
What’s Your Disability?
Come on, don’t be SHY! You know mine, by now. I understand you might need time to think about it, but don’t take to much time because you’re going to miss out on all the fun!
Believe it or not, GOD has given us all a “disability” that we have to deal with in our lives. Mine is physical. Yours may not be. But somewhere in your life, there is an obstacle or challenge you are faced with.
Whether your disability is visible or hidden, GOD does NOT DISCRIMINATE; we our all equal in his eyes!
I’m simply trying to make a point… with the grace of GOD, I’ve done positive things with mine, when I was repeatedly told, “NINO, you can’t body build or for that matter, compete in shows with your disability and be successful!
Well, I’ve competed in SEVERAL shows with a GREAT deal of success thanks to GOD! All I’m saying is if you go by what other people say you can or can not do with your “disability,” you’re just allowing other people to make EXCUSES for you!
I’ve been truly blessed by GOD, because he has allowed me to achieve so much despite my disability, when others told me it was impossible! I did whatever I had to do to make it possible!
So what makes my disability any different than yours? ABSOLUTLEY nothing! The only thing that might be a little different right now, is that I’ve made NO EXCUSES about mine! I have made things happen to help others understand that having a physical disability should NOT be thought of as being a negative thing BUT a positive one!
I guess it’s all in how you choose to interpret and attach meaning to your circumstances and how YOU choose to live yoru life!
So… you can keep on listening to what other people are telling you about what you can or cannot do or your can take MY advice! It’s YOUR choice, I know what mission GOD has sent me on! No matter what challenges YOU are faced with in life, there are NO EXCUSES, and NO REASONS why you can’t acheive success!
December 12th, 2006
Hello again! I hope by this time you are realizing by reading my recent blog entries, that I allow absolutely no room for excuses in my life!
We all make excuses from time to time - that’s just human nature -but we have to realize it when we are making excuses and then stop ourselves and admit that our excuses do not hold water!
You cannot come up with an excuse good enough that I cannot give you a answer for! Oh, I know that You might be trying to think of one where you can say it’s legit, but let me save you the trouble — there is NEVER an excuse good enough, because I’ve heard them all and they are all lies!
Thats right - Making excuses is rationalizing your failure to succeed or your failure to attempt and rationalizing is “rationing lies!”
Here are two of the most common:
“I don’t have time”
or this next one tops them all
“I’m too tired!”
How can you say you don’t have the time? Ridiculous! We all have all the time in the world - 24 hours a day! I have 24 hours a day and so do you. So does Donald Trump, The President, Tiger Woods, Oprah Winfrey, and Bill Gates. Why do some people succeed and others don’t? It’s not about time. It’s what you do with your time and how you prioritize your time that matters.
You’re too tired? how do you know that? have you tried to see just how much eating properly and exercising will Increase your energy!
While others try to come up with more excuses about why they’re not doing anything to help themselves achieve their goals, I WILL BE MOVING FULL STEAM AHEAD TOWARDS FULFILLING MY MISSION, and I urge you to do the same.
My message to you and other people around the globe is simple… three words for you. NO MORE EXCUSES… no matter what!
so it’s time to get on the action track and off the excuses track because before you know it, life will pass you by and you won’t be able to get it back. You only get one shot at life. If you don’t get past excuses, at the end of your life, you will suffer with regrets and questions.
Even if you’ve been an excuse maker your entire life, don’t worry. It’s never over until God calls upon you. It’s not too late. Begin now!
would you rather keep on making excuses or find out what kind of potential you truly possess, but are not using yet? Would you rather keep on making excuses, or find out what Mission God has in store for you? I could have made excuses, but instead I made plans. They say God helps those who help themselves and as I had the courage to move past excuses and take action on my plans, God revealed to me my mission and purpose, which I could not see until I had climbed over that first obstacle that appeared to block my way.
November 27th, 2006
I’ve been asked by many people what is the true motivation behind my mission and my success. Well, it all starts with my belief in GOD… he has been the driving force behind everything that I have accomplished to this point in my life!
One point I would like to get across with my mission is to allow people to understand that GOD has a special purpose for all of us no matter what situation or circumstances you are dealing with!
When others say to me, “How can you be so motivated with what you have to deal with?” My response to that is simple: when I feel like giving up - and yes, even I have those negative thoughts pop into my head at times - there is a phrase I always say to myself:
“GOD CHOOSES WHO HE USES AND USES WHO HE CHOOSES.”
God has given me a gift and I would like an opportunity to share with people the AMAZING GIFT that he has given me.
I believe that God has chosen me for a special MISSION with the purpose of teaching other people about how he can work in their lives, in a positive way. No matter what someone is dealing with in their life, which makes them feel as if they have nothing to offer, they DO have something to offer, something to teach others, something to live for.
It takes courage to look for the gift or benefit in adversity or disability and even more courage to share it with others. All I can say is, no matter what you are going through, find your gifts, discover your purpose and MAKE NO EXCUSES! I MAKE NONE, so WHY should YOU?
BELIEVE IN YOURSELF, but most of all, BELIEVE IN GOD!! HE WILL NOT LET YOU DOWN!
November 7th, 2006
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