Random thoughts pieced together

Thoughts to Ponder

The doorway of success is often entered through the hallway of failure. So if at first you don't succeed, relax. You are just like the rest of us.
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Just show up. Day after day. This moment in the day is never too late to start again.
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Life is filled with 2 Flavors - Sweet & Salty
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Me against me (comparing me against anyone else is a setup for failure). I find myself at support meetings sometimes looking at someone who has lost more weight in a shorter period of time and wondering how they did it and why have I not been as successful. The how’s and why’s of life are individual. Live the best you can and use the others’ success as inspiration instead of self-frustration.
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Joni Erickson Tada is a quadriplegic who has glorified God despite her disability, which was the result of a diving accident in her youth.In her book Heaven: Your Real Home, she writes about the new bodies God has for us: "No more bulging middles or balding tops. No varicose veins or crow's feet. No more cellulite or support hose. Forget the 'thunder thighs' and highway hips. Just a quick leapfrog over the tombstone and it's the body you've always dreamed of. Fit and trim, smooth and sleek."
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“Confidence comes from developing skills and achieving goals which may involve sacrifice and delayed gratification."
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Be patient with your body. It will take time for it to respond to the healthy changes you make. You would think after a year it would have become accustom to these changes. Continue to make smart decisions and keep up your healthy lifestyle - even after reaching your goals. It is too easy to fall back into the old habits that got you where you were before you made the changes. Persevere and proceed upward!
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Change is an emotional process. We are all creatures of habit who usually resist it, and welcome routine. Uncharted waters are scary! But it is the key that unlocks the doors to growth and excitement.
~Mac Anderson ~
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"When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge."
~Tuli Kupferburg~
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“Change is good…You go first”
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Put yourself first and your new ways will last. This is a means of taking care of you and by taking care of you, others are taken care of too.
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“Determination is the key to success.”
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Can we learn from our mistakes? Only if we admit them and carry on.
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We all will have our failures but do not fall into the same trap again. When given second chances, FAIL FORWARD
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There are two keys to success: acting on something and being passionate.
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Thought programming – under the hood
Sometimes I feel I take three steps forward in my pursuit of my dreams and goals, only to fall two and a half steps back. However, if I only concentrated on that half step forward which stood strong, striving to learn from those backward steps, I could become centered and focused more on the positive motion. Even if the positive was miniscule, it was still progress.
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“He knew that he knew that he knew” I often beat myself up because I knew better, but still did that which I shouldn’t have.
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Work today to take steps forward toward your dreams and never quit pursuing them.
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Relize that "Oopsie." is an okay word. It allows you to make mistakes and carry on to a better place through lessons learned.
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“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”
~Thomas Edison~