If you continue to blame or use other people for the reason you are not where you want to be in life, you are giving away your power. Bad things happen to good people and sometimes you end up as a product of environmental or relational failure. If you allow those people and those events to stand in the way of who you can become, they win. As you work silently toward your goal of getting better, those people shrink. As you succeed, they become irrelevant. Your skills, your knowledge, the character strengths you develop, no one can take those away from you. Stop reliving past hurts, stop giving your precious attention to past grievances. The only way to move on is to develop yourself and be proud of who you become in the process.
Month: January 2024
The Middle Way: Goal Achievement
Slow progress is the middle way. No self judgement when you miss a day.
Have a vision of who you want to be and hold it in mind always. Don’t be discouraged when the inevitable roadblocks get in the way of your goal. Know that you have a commitment to yourself and hold that vision in your mind and your heart.
Miss a day of your workout, no problem. Fell off the tracks with your diet or your schedule. Who cares. This WILL happen.
Give yourself grace and know the goal is always there. You haven’t failed. You are capitalizing on slow productivity. Fitting your plans into life and not structuring your life to fit your plans. The key is slow progress. When you have the time, when you feel the motivation, your goals will always be there.
Every day is day one. Every day is a new day to pick up where you left off.