Tag: mental health
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Message Of The Day: Practice Self Respect & Self Love Will Come
A little rant here and maybe controversial but I’m sick of all these self love quotes and social media posts. I’m sorry but you shouldn’t be trying to convince yourself how great and special you are after sitting on the couch all day, as you order your second round of McDonalds. Or telling yourself you’re…
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Message Of The Day: Happiness Is Earned Not Given
Too many of us feel we deserve to be happy, we feel we’re born and then should just be able to go through life without having to invest in ourselves and our happiness. Just like training our bodies for running a marathon or lifting weights to get stronger we need to train our mindset by…
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Planning & Moving Forward
Blog Update #11 It’s been a hectic 4-6 weeks, you’d think the COVID-19 pandemic would’ve slown me down due to gyms closing and work drying up, however as a labourer and as someone who’s had access to weights I’ve been very fortunate. My work and training routine has been anything but slow, it’s been crazy.…
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Reflection & Goal Setting
Blog Update #10 April marks 12 months since trekking the Kokoda Track, a life-changing experience that lead to a year of experiences that many would be happy to have in a lifetime. I’ve been on top of the highest mountain in Europe, the highest mountain in Africa and the highest mountain in South America. I’ve…
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Motivational Think-piece #6
THE CORONAVIRUS – TURN NEGATIVES INTO POSITIVES, WORK ON YOURSELF With the coronavirus rapidly spreading where seeing our lives being drastically impacted in a short period of time. Jobs are being lost, shops are being closed, gatherings are being outlawed and our fast paced “important” lives are being slowed down. We’re being forced to stay…
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Riding Life’s Lows & Highs
Blog Update #6 December the 11th, 2019. I’m not gonna lie it’s been a difficult and miserable couple weeks for me for multiple reasons, at the start of December I was hit with an all too common bout of depression. I’m used to these though and it’s normal for me. It comes and goes just…
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Getting Over Depression
Blog Update #5 November the 24th, 2019. Well that escalated quickly, last blog update I was writing about running my second 100km ultramarathon and now only a month later I’ve run my first 50km, my first 100 miler and I’ve been hospitalised with Rhabdomyolysis. Even crazier is how close my third second summit attempt Aconcagua…
Thomas "The Tank" Dade 