Motivation on Pinterest

A picture is worth a thousand words, and that's the whole concept behind Pinterest - a fun new social network that allows people to create virtual pin boards of their favorite images. About once a week (sometimes more) I'll scroll through Pinterest looking for images that resonate with me, adding them to the GirlsGoneSporty pin boards. Depending on my mood, I might add fashion, beauty, fitness or product pins, slowly accumulating a virtual wall of images that reflect "who" GirlsGoneSporty is.

I'm not going to lie, though - scrolling through the images posted under "Fitness" sometimes depresses me. I guess I just don't understand how posting an image of someone else's body and writing "Motivation" next to it will ever work as long-term motivation. It's not that we can't say, "I want to be stronger, I want to be thinner, I want to be healthier" while appreciating other women who are strong, thin and healthy, but taking an image and saying, "This is what I want to look like," simply isn't a good way to approach personal health and fitness. That's why I decided to create a Motivation pin board designed to focus on quotes and images that promote personal bests, rather than promoting body envy. I hope you'll check it out and follow our Motivation Pins along with our other fun pin boards. Here are a few of my favorite quotes from this week's pin accumulation and the websites they were gleaned from: