When I walk my dogs I usually listen to either Tony Robbins or Think and Grow Rich on my ipod. Today Tony was talking about how people will lie to themselves and tell themselves everything is ok when it really, isn’t until they get to the point where they HAVE to do something.
For instance, maybe you’ve gained a few pounds. You don’t really worry about it and tell yourself it isn’t a big deal. You make excuses about how you’ve just been too tired to exercise lately, but you’ll start tomorrow. Before you know it, you’ve gained 20 pounds, your clothes don’t fit, you’re having trouble exercising, and you can feel the love handles around your hips. Suddenly, you’re freaking out. You have to do something. Finally you take action and lose some weight. Then you get comfortable again and maybe slow down with the workouts. Thus a vicious cycle keeps going.
So how do you stop things like this from happening? You stop lying to yourself. You need to be honest and tell yourself it isn’t ok to gain a few pounds, or overspend, or put things off. You need to stop telling yourself it isn’t a big deal or whatever other stories you tell yourself to make them ok.
If there is something you want to do, you need to do something about it right away. Tomorrow will never come. Even if it is something for only 20 minutes, at least you did something.
Things I’m happy about today:
Went on a picnic with my grandparents, got a call for a phone interview for a major airline, got a cool marketing idea, started a new computer class, the weather was perfect, got to sleep in
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