The Strength: Motivation Monday

Monday, June 27, 2011

Motivation Monday

For all who know me, you know that I am a Gemini true to the core! I thought this picture was perfect for my post today! Don't we ALL have a "good" and "evil" side?!

I reserve Sundays exercising solely for me, running...! I usually run around 8-10 miles. Not fast, not slow, just my speed...whatever it happens to be that given day. Well, yesterday I just didn't want to go...we got back from church and I changed into my running stuff, did the dishes...let the dogs out...picked some weeds...thought about what I was going to cook for dinner...strapped my ipod on my arm, kissed the boys and left! Jeez! Just go already! The whole way out to the end of my lane I kept telling myself "It'll be a quick one!" Picked my music and off I went.

2 and a half miles into my run I have a mile or so long hill that really gets me going one way or another! I trudged up and up the hill! At the top is a house with 3 dogs all the same colors but not the same breed, I find it funny they match! They hate me! They bark like crazy at me! Thank goodness for an electric fence! I get to the top of the hill...what way do I go? Well, I think... the way with the least amount of road kill, and I go right.

I keep on thinking "OK, after this sign I'll turn around" I don't, I keep going... I think, now I'll turn and look behind me for traffic so I can cross the road for my trip back home...42 cars coming. Crap! Keep going! OK how about now...15 more, nope! Keep going. Got a few beeps...do I know you?! No...Keep going! Almost get hit...teenager texting! Keep going! Here is my spot, mile number 4 turn and go back, all is clear...GO!

I finally get back safe and sound and tired and sweaty. Yes I did it! I feel so much better! I got to empty some of the clutter I keep in my head from the week prior. I am in a better frame of mind. I feel good sliding on my bathing suit and lounging by the pool all day. I moved my body, I did it for me, I did not listen to the bad lazy person in my head that said..."Nah...don't go running today, lay around. You have to teach class tomorrow anyway!" Sometimes you just have to tell that bad person to shut up and just Keep Going! I'm glad I did!

Food for Thought: The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Strengthen Your Desire! Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.

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Motivational Quotes

You must act as if it is impossible to fail.
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself!
Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.
Whether you think you can or you think you can't, your probably right!
If you are sick of starting over, you have to stop quitting
You won't fail if you're not perfect, you'll fail if you're not committed to improving yourself slightly each day.
We can reverse years of damage to our bodies by deciding to raise our standards for ourselves, then living differently. Old wounds heal, injuries repair, and the whole system improves with just a few changes in what we put into our bodies and how we move them.
Failure is not fatal; failing to change will be."
Food for Thought: The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Strengthen Your Desire! Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.
Success is not a race, be patient.
It's not about how good you are, but how bad you want it!
Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go..."
"Never trade what you want the most for what you want at the moment"
"Success is not a place that we aspire to, it is a process in which we live by. Often the only ingredient being the ability to not quit"
Be specific in what you want, and use specific words. Empower yourself, and become the person you dream about
That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do; not that the nature of the thing itself is changed, but that our power to do is increased."
The odds of hitting a target go up dramatically when you aim at it." ~Mal Pancoast
At the beginning of any task, more than anything else, your attitude will affect it's successful outcome.
Do or do not. There is no try.~Yoda
Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means, effort, pain, difficulty.
Focus on where you want to go, not on what you fear."
There is no one giant step that does it. It's a lot of little steps."
Start doing what's necessary, then do what's possible, and suddenly you'll be doing the impossible!
"My life tomorrow will be the result of my attitudes and the choices I make today."
People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing, that's why we recommend it daily. Zig Ziglar
"Clear your mind of can't." ~Dr. Samuel Johnson
"Any experience can be transformed into something of value. Everything depends on the way you look at things. You cannot have the success without the failures.
What are stumbling blocks and defeat before you, can be stepping stones to victory if you remain determined.
Listen closely: the only time it's too late to change yourself is when you're dead. Until then, you're simply making excuses or lying to yourself.
If you keep doing what you've always done, you'll get what you've always got!
"Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently". ~Henry Ford
What we think or what we know or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do. ~ John Ruskin
Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality." ~Ralph Marston
One definition of insanity is: Doing the same thing again and again and expecting a different result.
"If we defend our habits, we have no intentions of quitting them."
Your past does not equal, nor does it dictate, your future
Do you choose to simply know the path, or do you choose to walk it?
Your body keeps an accurate journal regardless of what you write down...
When one approach is not working to reach the desired goal, that's not a reason to abandon the goal. Instead, it is time to devise another approach."------Ralph Marston
Discipline is remembering what you want.
Knowing is not enough, you must apply.
Make the decision, then do something - no matter how small - toward accomplishing what you want.
Don’t live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable. ~Wendy Wasserstein
Food for Thought: The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Strengthen Your Desire! Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.