Thursday, August 17, 2006
Marathon Blog
I belong to the popular weight-loss support group Sparkpeople. It’s a great place to educate yourself on weight loss. It seems that almost daily I get an email with an inspirational quote and question to get and keep me motivated on my journey. I should spend time doing that every day, writing in my journal blog about the ones that touch me, but my brain farts and I just keep filling my inbox with them. So today I’m going to marathon blog and use some of those quotes and questions not only so I can empty my inbox, but so I can spend time pondering on them.
So here goes!
“The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That’s the day when we truly grow up.” – John Maxwell, author and public speaker
Many things happen to us or around us during our lives. For a time, we can “blame” these occasions for our thoughts and actions, but there comes a day when we must accept responsibility for ourselves and what we say and do. My father died when I was 7. Apparently the way I dealt with it was eating. That’s what started the snowball rolling down the hill. At some point that excuse became unacceptable for my reason for being fat. When that occurred I’ll probably never know but I can accept responsibility now. I put that donut in my mouth because “I deserve it”. Because I want it. It doesn’t really matter why I do it, the point is I do it and I must stop. For me to get what I deserve in life, I must stop.
“A great obstacle to happiness is expecting too much happiness.” – Bernard de Fontanelle, writer
I truly believe that happiness is a choice. There can be circumstances which make it hard for us to make that choice, but ultimately it is up to us to decide how happy we are and why.
“If at first you don’t succeed, you’re running about average.” – Unknown
Isn’t that SO true? I mean, honestly. How many people are truly successful? Here’s the rub: How do you define success? Some might look at me and my situation and think that I am decidedly Unsuccessful. I choose to believe otherwise.
“Treat the Earth well. It was not given to you by your parents. It was loaned to you by your children.” – Kenyan Proverb
The whole “loan from your children” thing isn’t what strikes me. It’s for selfish reasons I want to be a good steward of the Earth. I love it. There is no other place in the galaxy like it. I enjoy having clean air to breathe. I think that thechnology is necessary, and that the Industrial Age brought on so much so fast, we didn’t have a way to know what was/is good and bad. People get so caught up in squeezing every second of productivity that they can out of the day that many of our modern conveniences have also caused us great harm, both physiologically and as a society. It is not okay that we don’t know our neighbors. We shouldn’t have to sentence prisoners to cleaning up our highways because we should appreciate beauty so much that we would never do anything to degrade it like littering.
I think that’s good for now. The morning is marching on and I’ve got laundry to do.
Peace!
So here goes!
“The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That’s the day when we truly grow up.” – John Maxwell, author and public speaker
Many things happen to us or around us during our lives. For a time, we can “blame” these occasions for our thoughts and actions, but there comes a day when we must accept responsibility for ourselves and what we say and do. My father died when I was 7. Apparently the way I dealt with it was eating. That’s what started the snowball rolling down the hill. At some point that excuse became unacceptable for my reason for being fat. When that occurred I’ll probably never know but I can accept responsibility now. I put that donut in my mouth because “I deserve it”. Because I want it. It doesn’t really matter why I do it, the point is I do it and I must stop. For me to get what I deserve in life, I must stop.
“A great obstacle to happiness is expecting too much happiness.” – Bernard de Fontanelle, writer
I truly believe that happiness is a choice. There can be circumstances which make it hard for us to make that choice, but ultimately it is up to us to decide how happy we are and why.
“If at first you don’t succeed, you’re running about average.” – Unknown
Isn’t that SO true? I mean, honestly. How many people are truly successful? Here’s the rub: How do you define success? Some might look at me and my situation and think that I am decidedly Unsuccessful. I choose to believe otherwise.
“Treat the Earth well. It was not given to you by your parents. It was loaned to you by your children.” – Kenyan Proverb
The whole “loan from your children” thing isn’t what strikes me. It’s for selfish reasons I want to be a good steward of the Earth. I love it. There is no other place in the galaxy like it. I enjoy having clean air to breathe. I think that thechnology is necessary, and that the Industrial Age brought on so much so fast, we didn’t have a way to know what was/is good and bad. People get so caught up in squeezing every second of productivity that they can out of the day that many of our modern conveniences have also caused us great harm, both physiologically and as a society. It is not okay that we don’t know our neighbors. We shouldn’t have to sentence prisoners to cleaning up our highways because we should appreciate beauty so much that we would never do anything to degrade it like littering.
I think that’s good for now. The morning is marching on and I’ve got laundry to do.
Peace!
# posted by SalGal @ 8:14 AM 
