I shall not flag nor fail.

I don't think that I could necessarily consider this a "Flex Friday" photo but it is Friday, and I am flexing.  In an effort to commit myself to this new lifestyle, I wanted to very literally and tangibly commit. Whelp... can't get more committed then a tattoo.

So you ask, "Why 'Flag nor Fail'"?.  Originally... the phrase is actually a quote by Winston Churchill, but it is a little more then just the initial phrase. When I started googling all this fitness stuff at the start of my journey, I came across several quotes, websites, fitness blogs and competitor photos.  I was in sensory overload.  One thing that I kept running into was photos of Dana Linn Bailey.  I have blogged about her before.  Long story short, she's hot!  When Xavy and I were training together, he wanted me to get an idea of the physique that I was working towards.  He could make anything happen, I just needed to show him what direction I was headed in.  In my searches through hundreds and hundreds of photos on google, I found it.  I found it over and over again.  Each physique that caught my eye was coincidental the same person.  So... I made my pick.  I wanted to find out a bit more about Dana and I found that she owned a company called, "Flag nor Fail".  They hand print shirts and stuff with some bad ass motivational phrases and saying.  A sign?  Maybe.  I also noticed that their logo was very similar to the logo that I created for Motivated by Mud.  Another sign?  I think so. 

There ya have it.  I shall not flag nor fail.  I am in this for the long haul.  No matter how hard, how long, how grueling this journey is.  I shall not flag nor fail.  With its placement, if I plan to show it off ever and not look like an epic fail, I don't have much of a choice either.  How is that for motivation? 

Thanks Chris at Stone House.  Fantastic work!