and the winners are.......

Scott Schwab:
Thank you to everyone that joined this challenge. Even those that are doing the challenge secretly, it is a great thing. Congratulations to all contestants. This challenge we had more participants and success than in past challenges. We hope to role this momentum into the next challenge.
Speaking of momentum, I feel that I learned some great things about the subject and wanted to pass them on. Last Friday I sat terrified as my Boise State Broncos had a game with all of the elements of a great game, accept we came out on the losing end. However, the process offers some great teaching elements. We can look at the game and think, "oh if that call wouldn't have been called or if that person wouldn't have done that", we would have won.
Not so fast, the game of football and truly anything is a game of momentum. It is a force as real as you or me. However, if we live in the maybes, what ifs, buts, and casting blame, we will not progress. Progression comes from accountability and accepting the good, the bad, and the ugly. Life is very similar! There are things that we cannot control. We will lose, I assure you, but how do we respond?
That is yet to be seen from my little team of the blue "smurf" turf. I am sure that all of us as sports fans have seen and experienced these things before and the good news is that life goes on. Unless we step up and move forward we will live our lives through the foggy glasses of what if? Despite the bad calls, penalties, fumbles that life will surely give to us, we must move forward. No one else can pull us along. We need to push forward with resolve and hope for a better day.
Momentum has as much to do with personal effort as it does with hope. If we can hope for the best and then go and work for it, we will eventually get exactly what we worked for. That may seem like a bold statement, but I will tell you that people generally get what they work for. That doesn't mean that they always get what they deserve, because people usually will experience things that are not fair, or that are hard, or down right wrong.
If we want to grow, we will not ask why, we will ask why not. We will look life in the face and challenge ourselves for more. At times we will be all but spent, and that is when we dig deep and define ourselves by our personal depth and resolve. All of us have greatness within. Find it today and everyday after that. Let the momentum of today push you into tomorrow and the next day, and the next. Never, give up! It is always harder to start the ball rolling, then just to keep it going.
Make it happen today, do something you think you cannot. Start a great habit, a goal, an achievement. Life is too short to wonder and think about doing things. Do them! This Friday we start a new challenge. The goal is to do your best and improve from the past challenge. We do not set specifics, because you will succeed more when you do them yourself and implement the changes that you need. You do not need to be perfect, just be accountable. Diets do not work, lifestyle changes do. Determine what you will do to improve and then let us help you and you help us. Together we will achieve more and accomplish whatever we desire!