My entire life has been backed up by this phrase no matter what journey I was on. For instance, eating what I want, going where I want, seeing what I want, listening to what I want and so on. You get the picture. YOU ONLY LIVE ONCE resounding in your mind as you embark on your journey of how you choose to live your life. But lets say your life comes to a screeching halt. Not lifeless, but lets say something serious happens to you. Can't walk anymore, lose your memory, have a heart attack, go blind.... sure everything happens for a reason. Let's say you could have prevented it. Meaning listening to your parents when they said "No" or "I'm just looking out for you" or maybe it was "I don't think its a good idea." Intuition is sometimes the best instinct to go with. It gives you the feeling that something is or isn't right and you should pay attention to what you feel or what it is tugging on your heart. The same goes for your health. The reason I'm presenting this issue, is because I am in an industry where I help people and sometimes I help people who have waited too long and it takes more effort, more work, more time out of their day just to get back to healthy. It takes more dedication to quit bad habits and really lean on the support of people outside of your friends and family. That's where I come in. The role I play and have a passion for is support. Its letting my people know that they ARE COMPLETELY CAPABLE of accomplishing absolutely ANYTHING they want, but they have to STICK WITH IT. In fact I named this blog STICK WITH IT because I know I can always resort back to this & remember that I DID & STILL stick with it because of what it has enabled me to do. What I have become is a better person. The one I was searching for all those years but couldn't find her because I was surrounded by negative influences. Why? Because I chose to ignore what was really important and what really mattered; my health.
This is who I am now. This girl you see above is the happy, healthy, vibrant, full of life person I was always searching for. I decided that YES, I do only live once and it was time I started caring about myself form the inside out. It was time to put away the bad habits and the carelessness of what I ate or drank on a daily basis. Believe it or not, I've been immersed in a TON of things people cannot see me doing today because that IS NOT the person I was meant to be. I have many a times screwed up, tried things no one should & missed being killed numerous times. I woke up. I was sick and tired of being SICK and TIRED and I needed a change. We all need change. Its what keeps this ONE and ONLY life adventurous. We grow when we change. We learn new things we can pass onto others and maybe impact them enough to want to change too. You can always have a new beginning but you can never have a new past. What's been done is done and in some circumstances, there is no reversing it. There is always one thing you can change of the many things we wish we could. Its called your health. I reversed mine. I was TOO IMPORTANT to ME not to want to live a fuller life and enjoy myself. I cannot explain how good it feels to know I can do the things and wear the things I always wanted to when I saw them on other people or saw other people doing the things I wanted to do. Doors have flung open for me and I am fulfilled! 
