Carey Kepler | empowerment + fitness

Raising your children to have Roots and Wings!

Apr 192013

I was told by a wise man that there are two tests that allow you to know that you have raised your children into society with character and integrity and two gifts that you want to give your children:

Tests-

1. If they Are keeping the faith.

2. If they are productive contributing members of society.

Gifts:

1. Roots – strong and deep

2. Wings -

I will focus on one of the Gifts here:

Roots:

I (Kris too but I must speak for myself) am currently working with my 7 year old daughter specifically on the roots. ( My son as well but I want to talk specifically about Her.) I have an internal struggle that I put myself through and don’t have to as I raise our children to have the gifts and to know that when they leave the nest they will be contributing members of society.

The Story:

She has a soccer game. She does not want to go. She wants to go with her friend to spend the night. Then go on the girl scout camping trip. Kris and I are in a wedding, dinner rehearsal tonight – we can take the kids. We need help from the other parents in order for her to get to do both. We have plan A and plan B.

A. She goes to her soccer game and then leaves with one of the moms and girls on the team off to the camp out.

B. She goes with another little girl after school today to spend the night and wake up go to the sisters swim meet and then off to camp.

Savannah wants to do B. She could really care less about the soccer game. (Mom struggle: I want her to have fun at all of it.) She’s only 7 what does it matter if she misses her game, she really just wants to have fun with her friends. She wakes up crying because she wants to spend the night with her friend and miss her game. I do not want to see her sad.

**Truth – she committed to her team to be there and she has to keep her commitment till the season is over. We thought we were going to have to leave early and she was going to have to stay the night with her friend later to find out that she could do both camping and soccer game!

Carey – stay strong in your parenting and grow those roots deep!!! Teach her commitment. Teach her that it is not just about her that when she misses her game she is also letting the team down. Hmmm… what does parent learn here? Commitment, staying true to your word. Stick till the end.

#lifelessons

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Another one bites the dust

Sep 302012

I am enjoying my life. I have been thinking about blogging the last few weeks. And a week will pass and will have not blogged yet. It is the strangest thing. these last few weeks I have felt like you people may want to hear from me. And then I take it upon myself to decide for me that you do not really care what I have to say. And then I decide that you do want to know what I have. to say. And then I choose not to blog. Blogging is interesting and it takes an available mind. One that is willing to share.

It took forever to figure out how to log in again. That’s what happens when you dont blog for six months.to the shot guns.

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What I am going to do because I choose to make time.

Apr 132012

I get it, I can’t really make time, but I can manage my activities so that I have the space to do the things I say I am going to do.

I have a couch that has a hole that needs to be stitched up. I have a pillow that sits on the couch that needs to be stitched up. I do not own a sowing kit. First thing first, head to hobby lobby, or JoAnn’s and get me a kit! Then I started thinking, do I need to take the pillow to match the color of the pillows so that it has a clean look? Answer yes. If I had a kit at the house I would just say F it, whatever color is around I will use.

I want to go to Yoga. My body is craving a little stretch. It is just so easy for me just to go to the CrossFit gym. It takes extra effort to get to the Yoga gym. Carve time out, get out of the routine, and get to Yoga!

Bake a cake for my daughter birthday! I have not baked in so long! I am ready to do this and add a ton of love to the recipe!

All in all I am looking forward to the weekend. I am pretty sure there will be some additional activity added. For example I will spend all Saturday morning cheering the CrossFit Central Women on at Betty’s on Boards! Super fun!

Enjoys yours and create some space!

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When was the last time

Mar 292012

you did something that scared you? I mean where you thought for just a split second you could die or maybe severally injure yourself? I was watching a scene from Transformers with my son Stone and in this one scene WitWiki and his hot girlfriend were in Bumblebee driving recklessly fast while being chased by Barricade and she yells out “we are going to die” and WirWiki is saying ” no we aren’t”. It is so intense that it struck me and took me back to when I lived my life on the edge often. Now, times are different, I have a husband, who I use to do some of that living on the edge with, 2 beautiful children, a business, and well lots of other stuff but those are the things that for sure keep me a little bit more reserved! Which is fine, but I started to reflect on the last time that I was really scared. It was 2011 Reebok CrossFit Games at 5:45am on a bus driving to the ocean about to jump in and swim 250m. I new I would do it, I had faith I would live, but I was scared to death. At one moment I had a look on my face that had fear all over it, I think I have seen the actual pick, the guys were coming our of the water, some were being rescued, Rob Orlando one of the greatest CrossFitters there is, comes out and takes a knee, he has been disqualified because he had to grab onto a kyak out in the water and be brought back to shore. Lindsay and Lisa were standing there and looked over at me and could tell I was about to lose it, Lindsay grabbed me, told me not to look and said lets pray. We all three huddled into a circle and Lindsay turned fear into faith! We held hands and prayed for protection and strength. I know in that moment I grabbed courage and the ball sack that I do not have, and said here we go! Reflecting even more on why I do CrossFit and I know that there is definitely a component of being scared that attracts me to it. Perhaps scared is the wrong word, but sometime I look at a workout and think, oh shit!

I asked Kris when was the last time he did something that really scared him and he said it was his Leadville race. He said he was standing at the start line and for the first time it hit him and for a split second he thought how the hell am I going to run 100 miles? And within that moment he told himself all he has to do is one mile at a time. Not sure if you know but he did finish the race in under 30 hours and got himself a belt buckle.

Put something on your calendar that scares you!

Reebok CrossFit Games 2011 Beach WOD

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Mar 082012

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Mar 012012

I am strong. I am fast. I am who I am.

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Are you ready for the OPEN?

Feb 242012

CrossFit 2012 Game season has arrived! Many of you have already done the WOD! Not me, today at 1pm it is on. 7 minutes of burpees. Can’t be that bad right? 7 minutes is such a short time. I am looking forward to the burn in my legs and arms. The breathing deep, the sweat that will drip off my belly when it is all done. I tell myself I am not that competitive. But I love to kill it! That is my way…for today is all I have, this moment in fact. I am in love with the burn. Game season is here! That gets me jacked up! Best to all you out there competing!

Kill it!

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Are you ballin?

Feb 172012

YOU get to choose if you are ballin?

What does ballin even mean? On internetslang.com it means “playing basketball” or “living the good life”. In this blog it is definitely living the good life. I am out in the world ballin! I just had a friend the other day tell me she was ballin and I could not help but laugh only because I never would have expected her to use that term to describe her life. I asked, “what does that mean?” She said “I am in the zone, life is good, and I am making shit happen.” There you have it, a women in the world that is out there ballin!

Are you ballin? Are you “living the good life”? What would that even look like for you? I know for me, I am on tract in every area of my life, my relationship with God, my relationship with Kris is on fire, my kids are amazing, nutrition is on, my workouts are focused and fun, I am pouring into my people at the gym, and I am grateful mostly just because I recognize my life being ballin!

So, are you ballin? I think this chick probably is, she is in the zone when she eats, workout, gets dressed and I am pretty sure is rock’en at her work as well! You get to choose if your ballin. Wake up in the morning and “make shit happen”!

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Achieving Results Through Greater accountability

Feb 102012

Gotch yourself an accountability partner? Are they holding you to a higher standard and not letting you get away with your pathetic excuses? What are you waiting for?

Or is that mindset the right approach.

Sometimes we get this accountability partner when it is to late. Almost as if you only get one when you are not performing. They are their to bring you up rather then to create results. In studying the Oz principal I am learning that in order to get the results that one wants it comes down to a personal choice. A personal choice to rise above one’s circumstances and demonstrate the ownership necessary for achieving desired results.

Knowing how to create a culture of accountability can be a great challenge. If you are operating with a high level of accountability you are clearly defining results, creating alignment around those results, delivering those results, and sustaining the changes that you are producing. Now, are you operating on high level of accountability?

A personal choice. The mindset or attitude of continually asking “what else can I do?” Seeing, owning, solving, and doing requires a level of ownership that includes making, keeping, and answering personal commitments.

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It’s that time again.

Feb 022012

When training starts to get intense. Intense in a sense that the Killa comes back into my blood. Or maybe it was always there it was just dormant for a bit. I just can’t help it. I have something in me that makes me just want to kill a WOD. I am liking my training right now. It has a perfect amount, well, really I would do it full time if I could… and if any of you really follow me then you know that I would tell myself that I could do it full time if I really wanted to…, but back to what is what I would call the perfect amount right now… I train with @ZUTFIT in the Oly gym (ReDBlack Gym) 2 x’s a week, I do Crossfit.com training at 1pm 4x’s a week, on the track for speed work 1x a week, I hit one crossfit/oly training + one SWOD with Travis and @Strickly_Strength and one more – ??? – dose of FUN!

It is open, regional, games!

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