It’s not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
~ Edmund Hillary
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Motivation
Do not be fooled
Do not be fooled:
~ unknown
Success is not the key to happiness.
Happiness is the key to success.
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Success makes noise
Work hard in silence.
~ unknown
Let success make the noise.
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Take big swings
The great thing about taking chances when you’re younger is you have less to lose, and you don’t know as much. So you take big swings.
~ Amy Poehler
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Wake up and chase them
Every morning you have two choices: Continue sleeping with your dreams, or wake up and chase them.
~ unknown
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Right place and time
I’ve always been in the right place an time.
~ Bob Hope
Of course, I steered myself there.
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Daily Routine
You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.
~ John C. Maxwell
The secret of your success is found in your daily routine.
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Life’s challenge
Men and women may in the end be forced to admit: “I made a fool of myself,” and still be fairly happy. But no one can possibly be satisfied, and therefore no one can in my sense be happy, who feels that in some paramount affair he has failed to take up the challenge of life. For a voice within him, which none else can hear, but which he cannot choke, will constantly be murmuring:
“You lacked courage. You hadn’t the pluck. You ran away.”And it is happier to be unhappy in the ordinary sense all one’s life than to have to listen at the end to that dreadful interior verdict.
~ Brett McKay from, http://www.artofmanliness.com/2016/09/10/manvotional-lifes-challenge/
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Long-term Consistency
Long-term consistency trumps short term intensity.
~ Bruce Lee
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Do Something Fun
Every morning when I wake up I say, I’ll never be as young as I am today. Today is the youngest day of the rest of my life. Get up and do something fun.
~ Rochelle Ford
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Do Not Trade
Don’t trade away your happiness now to earn money in hopes that if you make enough you’ll be able to buy it back later.
You can’t.
~ Unknown
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Every single day
You don’t set out to build a wall. You don’t say, “I’m going to build the biggest, baddest, greatest wall that’s ever been built.” You don’t start there. You say, “I’m going to lay this stone as perfectly as a stone can be laid.” You do that every single day. And soon you will have a wall.
~ Will Smith
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Meditate upon death to motivate yourself
This blind spot in our perception is why we confidently tell ourselves that we’ll start that business, lose the weight, repair our relationship, get organized…in a few weeks or a few months, because then we’ll have more time. It’s an illusion. It’s a self-deception that allows us to soothe the pangs of our unfulfilled desires with the panacea that now is not the right time. The mirage of the time-filled future can string a man along until he’s 80, has one foot in the grave, and realizes that the expanse of time he imagined would open never appeared.
~ Brett McKay from, http://www.artofmanliness.com/2011/03/20/what-man-understands-that-he-is-dying-daily-this-is-your-life/
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Struggle
Strength doesn’t come from winning, strength comes from struggling.
~ unknown
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Motivation: You’re doing it wrong
Motivation is going to promise you things, and then leave you when you need it most. When you can capitalize on that motivation by lowering the amount of inertia you have to overcome to take action every day, the more likely you’ll be to succeed.
~ Steve Kamb from, https://www.nerdfitness.com/blog/2016/08/11/motivation-youre-doing-it-wrong/
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Judge Not By Success
Do not judge me by my successes, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.
~ Nelson Mandela
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A Plan and A Deadline
A dream is just a dream.
A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline.
~ Harvey Mackay
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Remember
Never forget why you started.
~ unknown
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Trample it beneath your feet
I don’t run away from a challenge because I’m afraid. Instead, I run towards it because the only way to escape fear is to trample it beneath your feet.
~ Nadia Comăneci
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Moving forward
(Part 51 of 72 in series, My Journey)
I really struggle with believing that small, daily efforts lead to long-term changes. On the treadmill of life, I always seem to want to start sprinting to get ahead, especially when the treadmill picks up speed working against me. I find little injuries or other setbacks are really demoralizing. Curiously, I don’t seem to be demoralized by the things I’m not yet able to do. (“Scale that wall? meh. Some day, maybe, not really a major concern though.”)
So any time I manage to go to a class, or an event, or a simple workout, or a run, or whatever… and I put in solid effort without injurying myself or pushing anything too far (pushing “too far” is for special occasions ;) …well, after those workouts, then I really feel vindicated and motivated to continue my journey.
This morning I managed to get up, get out the door, run and do my QM work alone. It was nothing major; Just a half hour of easy running and a half hour of “easy” QM.
It ain’t about how hard you hit. It’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward.
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