We made it though another year!! I can’t believe how time has flown by. I truly feel that time speeds up once you have a child. It feels like just yesterday he was only a couple of months old. Now he is out running around the backyard in his star wars vans (way too cute!) and playing with the dog. The best quote someone told me after having little man was “The days are long and the years are short”. Man is that true!!
Ok so we all know that with the New Year comes Resolutions, Goals and Challenges. I normally don’t make resolutions per se. I love doing goals and challenges because they just feel so much more attainable (posting more on this later). What better way to start the new year then with an awesome challenge?!?! I love challenges because it is a way to push myself, to push past what I think I am able to do and to make myself a stronger person both physically and mentally.
So here is the 2015 Burpee Challenge… for 2015 let’s do 15,000 Burpees!!! Yes, you read that right!! A whopping 15,000!! I must say that this idea was not my own and came from a fellow Spartan Chick (yes I got her ok to share this!). What an amazing ideas in my eyes. It will keep us accountable throughout the whole year and I guarantee we will come out stronger! Please don’t let the number scare you. We are all in this together. I have even made a Facebook page dedicated just to this. Here are the rules
Now how are we going to keep track of all these Burpees….well there are a couple different options. I will be keeping track with beads in a jar. I went to Michael’s and bought 1,500 beads (each bead will equal 10 Burpees). I also bought some fun glitter glue and letter/number stickers to decorate my mason jar. I liked the fact that I could see how far I needed to go and how far I have gone. You could also use money and then reward yourself at the end of the year. Maybe say a quarter for every 10 Burpees (that’s $375 at the end!). Either way make it something that will motivate you!
I even used the glitter glue to write some motivational words on my jar. I never realized how hard it is to write with those things so excuse the sloppy writing 
And for those of you that are Spartans, I’m sure you noticed the very specific colors I went with 
Are you in?!?! Let’s do this together and start the year off with a Burpee
~ Larissa
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