Quote For Today
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
Stephen R. Covey
What motivates you? Today I watched one of my favorite ministers talk about going through our closets to give away those clothes that no longer fit. Often we hold onto old clothes, and we tell ourselves tomorrow I will lose weight and I'll fit into that old dress again so I'll just keep it a few more years. We hold onto old clothes, even old excuses of why we are not moving towards our dreams. We make tons of excuses. One day my kids will be grown, one day I'll have more money to get an education, and then we put off our dreams for one more day. Before we know it years have gone by and we are still saying "one day". How many one days are we going to let go by before we motivate ourselves to manifest change in our lives?
Everytime I think of dieting there is that opportunity to get off track. The kids want pizza, or it's someone's birthday and boy does that cake look good. Oh what is ONE more day? Boy and then there is chocolate and it's nearing that time of the month so I say to myself, "What's just a little piece of chocolate?" Before long you ate the whole candy bar! Then you tell youself I'll go on that diet tomorrow.
Tomorrow..... gosh I don't know how many tomorrows there have been for me! I do know I have today! The key is to find that motivator. I use to hang up this dress in my bedroom that I never fit into thinking THAT would be my motivator. I can tell you this....that dress didn't always help motivate me. When it was out of sight, it was out of mind! My motivator has to be in my THINKING each second of the day. There was a time when I lost a lot of weight and the pizza in my mind was FAT. I had to remind myself 'not' to pick up more fat while trying to lose what I had already found. I become strong in my thinking and it took great will power, but I did what had to be done. I began exercising and taking notice of what I was putting into my mouth. So it's very important to find out what motivates you to manifest changes in your life. Take a look at your thinking today and see if perhaps you've been spending a lot of time wishing but not doing. Have you been waiting for tomorrow? Have you been making excuses of why NOW is not the time?
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