"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!
