What motivates me to get active?

Well hello there, my official first blog, a brief introduction to who I am...although, the more you read my blogs, I am sure that you will easily get to know me!
I'm Debbie Miller-Wright and for the past 4 years I have run my own fitness and Martial Arts clubs, called, Fighting Fit Devon. I started this business after being made redundant from another job, I basically turned what was my hobby, into my business and life.

I guess, from that introduction and the title of this blog, 'what motivates me to get active?' that it should be fairly self-explanatory. The thing about this blog and this campaign, it's about us girls, and we are far from simple to understand! With our wonderful feminine creative personalities there is way more that motivates me than just my work.

I started Ballet at 3 years old, basically I was uber active from young. How you are now has a lot to do with how you were brought up, and how you were as a child.
I was active, excitable and my parents encouraged this in me with dance lessons, music lessons, Brownies, Girl Guides, after School sports clubs. They supported and encouraged me and with this it inspired me to be a 'do-er' from a young age.

I lost my lovely Dad to Cancer when he was just 54 years old. This life event changed me, in that I realised that life, could very possibly be short. Life had to be lived, but healthily.

So, what motivates me to get off my butt and go to the gym, to Kickboxing or even for a long walk with the dogs on the coastpath?
The fact that I am alive, and I can.
This Girl Can, so, the question is.......can you?