Hi everyone, happy Friday! Today I want to make you all giggle a little, and remind you to embrace everything that is you.

I always knew that my dad was color blind; he could see colors, he just had trouble with specific shades. For instance, he could see the color blue and know that it was blue but if we put the color purple in front of him, it was foreign to him… He would tell us that the color was blue or pink but he would never say “purple”.

When I was in junior high, maybe 13 years old, I got yelled at by my teacher for not following directions during an assignment. We were learning about the human heart and were told to color specific features blue and red. I was so confused, I followed directions and listened, my colored heart looked the same as everyone else’s, why was I being yelled at in front of everyone?! It turned out my heart was purple and red…. This is how I found out that I’m color blind! The diagnosis came completely out of the purple. LOL!

This really upset me initially, I felt dumb… I thought “wow, I’m like a child, I don’t know my colors”. I literally practiced my purple shades but obviously to no avail. However, I found out as many as 8 percent of men and 0.5 percent of women with Northern European ancestry have the common form of red-green color deficiency, so I’m not as alone as I initially thought!

Today I still think being color blind is a pain in the butt but it’s what makes me unique! We all have our things and we should learn to accept them, since they’re what make us, well, us! 

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Some of my favorite advice is actually adapted from an anonymous professional bodybuilder, who advises that “Never doing ten reps means that you never set an attainable goal and then reward yourself for achieving it. People who set a goal (ten reps) and then put the weights down to congratulate themselves upon completion will never see results and eventually quit. People whose goal is failure and complete fatigue are the ones who become monsters.”

Now, while I’m sure this was aimed directly at trying to look similar to Schwarzenegger in his heyday, it’s applicable to just about anything. Never stopping at what you think is the maximum attainable results means you’re constantly pushing yourself past what you think you can do, and building the metaphorical “muscle” up to endure more and more with each try. So whether it’s number of belts packed, calls made, photos edited, comments replied to, or actual repetitions at the gym, never stop at ten!