"If you take two steps forward and one step back, you’re still getting someplace. Don't give up the moment you slip up. Press on!"
For most of my life I have felt like a complete failure any time I haven't been 100 percent or if I blew my eating or failed to workout. I tend to be an all or nothing person. All that has ever done for me is cause me to spiral downward in my spirit of failure. I might take a break, rag on myself, or I might give up all together---feeling it was useless and I'd never be successful and reach my goals.
As time has gone on, the quote from Motivation to Live Well has given me encouragement. I am not 100 percent all of the time or ever, for that matter. I am on a journey to make more right choices every day. In that, I am feeling successful.
I am also working more on my thought processes. I've honestly thought I wouldn't succeed. I've thought I will fail and, therefore, that's exactly what I do. Even as I walked on the treadmill today (good choice, step forward), I recited to myself that I can and I am going to do this and be in good physical shape. I believe I'll be in better mental shape as well. Mind and body!
Proverbs 23:7 "As a man thinks in his heart. SO IS HE."
I want to be different so I'd better keep working at thinking differently!
Goodbye
6 years ago
I agree with you so much. Frame of mind and positive thinking will get you far.
ReplyDeleteI watched part of the Michael J. Fox show the other eveing and he said he tries to do the "next right thing" instead of trying to do the "next thing right". I think that is brilliant, and advise that really applies to the journey of becoming healthier.
ReplyDeleteAwesome and timely. This has been my biggest change this time around. If I renew my mind when it comes to other walks of my life, why would I not when it comes to weight loss I finally realized.
ReplyDeleteIt's amazing the defeat that can come from our own members. I'm grateful to our Lord that He gives the power to overcome.