Words of Wisdom

As you travel along the road towards your weight loss goal, there will be occasional road blocks.  At those times, you need to energize yourself with inspirational thoughts to help you refocus, recharge and remember why you began the journey in the first place.  To encourage you, to empower you ... Words of Wisdom.

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Don't say you don't have enough time.  You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Louis Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardi di Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.

There are only two options regarding commitment---you're either IN or you're OUT.  There's no such thing as life in-between.

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves.  The process never ends until we die.  And the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.

If you fail the first time, consider yourself normal and try again.  If you fail a second time, consider yourself special for you have what it takes to succeed. If you fail a third time, consider yourself extraordinary, for many people would have already given up.

Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

Progress is impossible without change, and those that cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

It isn't sufficient just to want you've got to ask yourself what you're going to do to get what you want.

We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.

Plans are nothing. Planning is everything.

If you can dream it, you can do it.

Whether you think you can, or think you can't, you're right.

Focus on what you are getting, not what you are giving up.

What we ponder and what we think about sets the course of our life.  Any day we wish, we can discipline ourselves to change it all.  Any day we wish, we can open the book that will open our mind to new knowledge.  Any day we wish, we can start a new activity.  Any day we wish, we can start the process of life change.  We can do it immediately, or next week, or next month, or next year.  We can also do nothing. We can pretend rather than perform.  And if the idea of having to change ourselves makes us uncomfortable, we can remain as we are.  We can choose rest over labor, entertainment over education, delusion over truth, and doubt over confidence.  The choices are ours to make.  We created our circumstances by our past choices.  We have both the ability and the responsibility to make better choices beginning today.

You don't drown by falling in the water. You drown by staying there.

The reason most people fail instead of succeed is that they trade what they want most for what they want at the moment.

There is a difference between interest and commitment.  When you're interested in something, you do it only when it's convenient.  When you're committed to something, you accept no excuses, only results.

There's more to climbing a mountain than reaching the peak. In between any desire and the fulfillment of that desire lies a vast middle ground of focused and consistent effort——much of it tedious, some of it painful, all of it necessary.

No matter how strong your desire, just knowing where you want to be will not get you there.  You've got to cover that middle ground between where you are and where you're going.  Before you can climb the mountain, you must first reach its base with the training, the resources and the energy necessary to make the climb.  Then there's the climb itself.

Success comes from doing the dirty work, having the patience, making the cold calls, getting yourself prepared, being disciplined, staying committed, doing your homework, accepting responsibility, and continuing to take action.

Winning comes not from crossing the finish line, but from running the whole race.