Jillian Michaels Quotes

I've always believed fitness is an entry point to help you build that happier, healthier life. When your health is strong, you're capable of taking risks. You'll feel more confident to ask for the promotion. You'll have more energy to be a better mom. You'll feel more deserving of love.

- Jillian Michaels

Love, Strong, Healthier, Fitness

When you eat a piece of white bread, think of it as putting a tissue on a fire. But if you eat something that has wholegrains, whether it's a little bit of oatmeal, a little bit of protein, it's like putting a log on the fire.

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Bread, Think, Putting, Log

For years, I always thought it was hilarious that I was this fitness guru, because fitness was just a tool I utilized to help people improve their confidence. For me, it's never been about fitness. It's always been about helping to empower people.

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Thought, Guru, Been, Hilarious

Whenever you have a failure or setback, you need to take a step back and find out what you can learn from the scenario. What did you do to contribute to that failure? This way, you can make sure you don't repeat that pattern.

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Learn, Need, Sure, Scenario

When you're strong physically, it improves your strength in every other facet of your life. You're more confident, your self-esteem is higher, and your self image is better.

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Strong, Self-Esteem, Image, Improves

I had a second-degree-blue-belt test, and I broke two boards with my right foot, and the next day I walked into school, and no one ever picked on me again. I suddenly believed in myself and respected myself. I had some inkling of my power, so the bullying stopped instantly.

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Next, Some, Boards, Picked

I was picked on as a kid. I had a nose the size of a softball plus braces and acne. It was rough.

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Nose, Softball, Rough, Picked

Life? You can't manipulate it or bend it to your will. You have no choice but to roll with it.

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Will, Bend, Roll, No Choice

People that know me know I'm very good about doing my own thing and minding my own business.

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Business, Doing, Very, Minding

Obesity in children is growing out of control. A big part of this is economic. Fake foods are more affordable. It's enticing people to eat more because they think they're saving money when they're really just buying heart disease.

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Big, Big Part, Foods, Fake

If there's something I hate the most, it's feeling helpless, powerless.

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Hate, Most, Powerless, Helpless

When it comes to the chocolate, I allow it every single day, but I only get 200 calories worth. So I work it into my daily calories. It's a candy bar. But I usually only need it after dinner.

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Worth, Candy, Allow, Every Single Day

I'm part Bridget Jones, part Larry David. I'm shy; I'm prude.

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Shy, Part, Bridget Jones, Prude

People believe practice makes perfect, but it doesn't. If you're making a tremendous amount of mistakes, all you're doing is deeply ingraining the same mistakes.

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Practice, Making, Amount, Same Mistakes

If I'm looking at a client, I can say, 'Oh, wow, this is where you're weak; this is what you need to work on.' I can correct her in a matter of seconds, and then she's practicing specifically on the thing she needs to work on instead of repeating the same mistakes. Having that feedback is essential for beginners.

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Mistakes, Matter, Correct, Same Mistakes

I find television to be a bit like a meat grinder. It's like, you have a cow, you put it through a meat grinder, and out comes a hot dog. It's almost unrecognizable.

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Through, Like, Almost, Grinder

You can look for external sources of motivation and that can catalyze a change, but it won't sustain one. It has to be from an internal desire.

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Desire, Internal, Sources, External

My mom gave me enough self-worth to carry me through difficult experiences. She was very loving and accepting. She was like, 'Whelp, you're gay? OK, cool.'

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Through, Like, Very, Accepting

Whenever I've had a rough day, I like to pour my frustration into my workouts.

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Like, Rough, Whenever, Workouts

Strong, not skinny, is now sexy, and long workouts are a thing of the past.

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Strong, Past, Sexy, Workouts

Sometimes you've got to make your work and workouts co-exist.

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Work, Sometimes, Your, Workouts

The adoption process was not an easy one. The paperwork took nine months. It's a full-time thing!

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Full-Time, Nine, Took, Paperwork

I was an overweight kid, and my father struggled with his weight, too. We would go for a ride on his motorcycle on Sunday morning to get doughnuts, to make pizza together, or go get ice cream. I quickly learned that food equalled love and attention.

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Love, Kid, Sunday Morning, Ice Cream

I train in different modalities so that each muscle is targeted twice a week, with two days of rest in between.

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Rest, Week, Two, Twice A Week

Stop turning to fad diets and use common sense.

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Stop, Common, Turning, Common Sense

Everyone is trying to make ends meet, and even if you aren't, no one wants to get ripped off.

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Meet, Everyone, Off, Ripped

Politics aside, you look at Barack Obama, he is ripped.

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Politics, Barack, Aside, Ripped

Gardening is not my thing. You're digging in the dirt, and then a couple of months later, something happens.

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Later, Couple, Months, Digging

I will teach people not only how to identify their goals and dreams, but subsequently give them the tools to make those dreams a reality.

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Give, Will, Identify, Goals

If you don't learn from why you're in the position you're in, you are doomed to repeat it. You need to bring meaning to every setback.

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Learn, Need, Bring, Setback

I was an overweight kid, and I went through a period where, oh my God, they were making cow sounds at me when I walked down the hallway and just humiliating me. Kids can be mean.

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Through, Making, Period, Humiliating

It's like, 'Oh, well of course you want gay marriage, you're gay.' I think when heterosexual people are talking to their peers and they're like, 'This is an equal rights thing,' it's a little bit easier.

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Talking, I Think, Peers, Gay Marriage

The key is to master a few simple ways to exercise that will burn the most calories in the least time. And you also need to figure out how can you eat more of the good stuff and less of the bad stuff without feeling deprived so your diet regimen feels manageable.

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Bad, Feels, Least, Regimen

You can be predisposed genetically, but it's not a sentence. I'm genetically predisposed, but I manage my weight. The root of obesity, though, is usually emotional. The poor habits are a symptom of a deeper emotional issue.

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Habits, Sentence, Though, Manage

I have this intrinsic sense that everything will be okay.

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Will, Sense, Okay, Intrinsic

I think that when moms just give themselves up, the kids know. They feel guilty; they resent their mother for making them feel guilty, and then they grow up and do the same thing. Whereas my mother showed me that it's okay to focus on yourself.

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I Think, Resent, Same Thing, Whereas

Oh, God, food is a constant struggle for me. With exercise, I get my workout done, and I'm done until tomorrow. With food, I eat, and then an hour later I'm hungry again!

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Constant, Again, Oh God, Struggle

We can't sit around waiting for big government, big business, big religion etc. to save us. We need to get informed and take inspired action.

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Waiting, Big, Informed, Big Business

You can dramatically affect the expression of your metabolism and your biochemistry by the way you eat and the way you live.

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Expression, Eat, Affect, Dramatically

Transformation in real life is extraordinarily incremental, and that's all I'm going to say.

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Real Life, Say, Going, Extraordinarily

I like to train the body from as many different angles as possible to use every modality available to do it.

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Angles, Like, Use, Train

I really want to train Hillary Clinton.

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Want, Clinton, Really, Train

If you have the means, I would highly recommend using supplementations for optimal health.

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Means, Using, Would, Highly

Lazy doesn't exist. Lazy is a symptom of something else. The person who can't get up off their butt is just a person who's depressed. It's usually a pervasive lack of self-worth, or a feeling of helplessness.

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Lazy, Something Else, Else, Pervasive

Think of it this way: If you got a flat tire, what would you do? Change the tire? Or get out of the car and slash the other three tires? No! Get back on the road. Don't dwell on it; don't beat yourself up. That gets you nowhere.

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Dwell, Back, Other, Tire

My agenda is trying to help people live a better life.

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Help, Better, Better Life, Agenda

I felt the calling to adopt. You just know in the deepest part of your being that you are meant to find this little soul and guide them through life.

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Soul, Through, Meant, Guide

You have to learn how to listen to your emotions, letting your internal compass guide you. Your emotions let you know when you are on and off track.

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Learn, Emotions, Internal, Guide

I have watched as a people and as a country and a culture over the course of my teenage-into-adulthood life, and I do still think there is a tremendous amount of homophobia that exists.

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Think, Country, Over, Tremendous Amount

There's still a tremendous amount of homophobia out there in the world, but it is what it is. I am who I am, and the people in my life are who they are, and they love us, hate us, for whatever reason. It is what it is.

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Love, My Life, Reason, Tremendous Amount

I've wanted to be in daytime television for a long time, because that's where you can convey a message.

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Long, Television, Message, Convey

In my experience, honesty is the best policy. And being a friend to somebody is not always the best way to help them.

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Best, Always, Best Way, The Best Policy

The irony is that I'm actually a very empathetic person, but I don't believe in sympathy at all.

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Person, Very, Actually, Empathetic

Everybody has haters.

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Everybody, Haters

I was homophobic because I obviously didn't know that I was gay.

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Know, Because, Obviously, Gay

Gay is not a choice.

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Choice, Gay

I was 175 pounds at 13 years old and 5 feet tall.

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Feet, Old, Pounds, Tall

The gay thing has always been hard for me.

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Me, Always, Been, Gay

I'm on the younger end of Gen X, and for me, growing up gay was not cool.

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Growing Up, Growing, Gen, Gay

I was a gay kid who didn't know I was a gay kid, which was really challenging because you think there is something wrong with you until you understand what it is.

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Think, Kid, Which, Gay

Fake fat, fake colours, fake flavours, fake sweeteners: this is poison.

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Fat, Poison, Colours, Fake

Witnessing the bond between a parent and their little ones firsthand really brought home to me how much I was missing.

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Parent, Brought, Witnessing, Missing

By the time I'm 40, the hope is that I'll be solidly in daytime television and producing the various other experts we've brought along the way.

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Other, By The Time, Brought, Experts

I change the workout every month, so you never adapt and never plateau.

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Change, Never, Month, Workout

I looked to my mom as an example. And this is what I try to tell so many women: that my mom had a career, and she went to the gym. She took care of herself.

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Career, Took, Looked, Herself

People tend to think that metabolism is genetically predetermined. That you're either cursed or you're blessed. And that's not true.

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Think, Either, Tend, Predetermined

Not to say you should let your physicality define you, but there are some things that can make people feel really insecure. So, if there is something you want to fix that allows you to feel a little bit more confident, I support it.

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Confident, Feel, Some, Insecure

I'm not sympathetic. I have zero sympathy. I understand about emotional eating, I understand how painful the process can be, but I also understand that change is possible.

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Change, Process, Sympathetic, Painful

I used to tell moms that for the sake of their well-being they had to put themselves first. But I know now that's not always possible.

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Well-Being, Tell, Always, Moms

There are millions of people who do want help. I'm not going to waste my time convincing people who aren't receptive.

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Waste, Going, Convincing, Receptive

Let's just say I believe in healthy love.

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Love, Healthy, Say, I Believe In

I wish I had some strapping football player husband. It would be such a dream to be 'normal' like that, but I'm just not.

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Normal, Some, I Wish, Player

I supplement a lot. So I'll take a probiotic, and I mostly eat green food.

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Lot, Take, Mostly, Supplement

My dad was a crazy person, but some of the best qualities about me came from him.

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Some, About, Dad, Qualities

People will accomplish anything if they believe the goal is worth it - they are worth it and that they are capable of achieving it - and that's exactly what my 'Maximize Your Life' show will do.

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Goal, Worth It, Will, Maximize

There is a huge misconception that if you do something like hot yoga, you'll burn more calories, and the opposite is true. You want to heat your body from the inside out, not the outside in.

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Heat, Burn, Like, Calories

Make 80 percent of the food you eat healthy, then take 20 percent of your daily calories and make them fun.

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Them, Your, Then, Calories

The fad diets are doing way more harm than good.

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Doing, More, Harm, Diets

There's a confidence and sense of self that comes with age that I didn't anticipate.

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Confidence, Self, Sense, Anticipate

It seems at times fate knocks on people's door, and they are too afraid to pursue it.

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Fate, Door, Times, Knocks

I completely appreciate the importance of fathers but millions of children are without loving homes. I think a child is lucky with one parent who truly loves her.

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Parent, Think, Lucky, Homes

The more you change and stress the body the quicker it's going to adapt and change.

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Stress, More, Going, Adapt

Allow yourself a few parties, but be mindful the rest of the time.

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Rest, Few, Allow, Parties

My partner loves gardening and beekeeping and chickens and all that stuff.

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Gardening, Chickens, Loves, Partner

When you think of 'Biggest Loser,' you think of it as a TV show. But people are coming to lose weight. I take that very seriously.

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Think, Very, TV, Seriously

Parenting is not for sissies. You have to sacrifice and grow up.

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Sacrifice, Grow, Sissies, Grow Up

I don't believe in eating throughout the day. I eat every four hours.

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Eat, Hours, Four, Throughout

There is really no room in any healthy diet for trans fat, artificial sweeteners, and artificial colors in food.

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Healthy, Fat, Artificial, Colors

I'm done with 'Biggest Loser.'

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Done, Biggest, Loser

I could open up a little gym, and I would be blissfully happy.

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Happy, Could, Would, Gym

Seeing my two kids together is a magical feeling.

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Seeing, Feeling, Two, Magical

When you feel strong and you accomplish something physical that you didn't think you were capable of, your heart and mind open up to many possibilities that previously felt out of reach in other areas of your life.

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Strong, Possibilities, Other, Physical

I'm unbelievably superstitious.

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Unbelievably, Superstitious

I don't lock into one type of exercise.

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Exercise, Type, Lock

The results I've seen with Bodyshred have been far superior to any program that I've ever created.

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Been, Far, Ever, Superior

Every now and again, you just gotta hit something. Not someone - something.

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Now, Someone, Gotta, Hit

If I was ashamed of who I am, I would be in the closet.

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I Am, Ashamed, Would, Closet

I think that anything in life is about the middle ground.

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Think, Middle, I Think, Ground

You need to cultivate your passion and crystallize your vision. If you don't know where you're going, how are you going to plan a road-map for how to get there?

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Need, Going, Your, Cultivate

When it comes to kids, it's just not hard to get them healthy. I don't find it hard and don't understand why people find it hard.

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Understand, Why, Them, Healthy

I only eat healthy food, and I only want healthy love!

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Love, Want, Only, Healthy

We all have to work for happiness. And you cannot listen to other people. That is the worst mistake you can make.

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Happiness, Mistake, Other, Worst

Put your choices in perspective.

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Choices, Your, Put, Perspective

Look several months ahead, see where the obstacles lie, and figure out ways to overcome them.

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Ahead, Figure, Months, Obstacles

I had my nose done when I was 16 years old, and I'll be honest: it did change my life.

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My Life, Nose, Old, Honest

You've got to listen to the universe, to life, to God, whatever you want to call it. Because its going to speak to you.

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Want, Call, Going, Universe

I love yoga, but the namaste thing only takes you so far.

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Love, Far, I Love, Yoga

It's important in life to celebrate any victory in life.

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Celebrate, Important, Any, Victory

Try not to say, 'I'm a failure.' Instead, ask, 'What can I do better? What did I do wrong?' Then re-approach.

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Try, Better, Ask, Failure

Life has a way of working out the way it's meant to.

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Life, Working, Way, Meant

It's impossible to put yourself first when you're a mom.

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Mom, Yourself, Put, Impossible

I'm trying to get into the best shape of my life for 40.

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My Life, Trying, Get, Shape

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