Hey There!
It is day 33 of 365. It has only been a few days since my
last entry, but I want to get a bit synched up to Weigh-In Mondays. My
commitment is to blog every week and my plan is to blog most weeks on Monday or
Tuesday. (Just FYI)
So weigh-in Monday showed no negative and no positive
progress in the good fight, but that being said, I did not expect much since I
just weighed in and blogged only a few days ago.
I have been thinking about how much I can not and will not
spend much time during these remaining 11 months stalled out or going
backwards. To insure I do not so this, I have been reminding myself of such
sayings as “Anything worth doing is worth working hard for” and “If you want
something different you have to do something different” and “Success or
Happiness is made up of many small victories.” (Even though I put all three of
those sayings in quotes, I am paraphrasing them from my memory. Sorry, I know
that is not really how quotes work.)(And you can quote me on that!)
I have been spending a good deal of time thinking
specifically about an Aristotle quote that I ran into earlier this year and
that I share with the young people that I have the privilege of working with.
The quote goes a little something like this, (hit it!)
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an
act, but a habit.”
I love this quote because he is saying that it is our habits
that are the biggest determining factor of our success or Excellence, and as
such, our daily decisions add up to our excellence or our lack there of.
I LOVE THAT! That is just another wise person from history
who knew and shared with whoever would listen, that your happiness and your
success and your feelings of fulfillment are a product of your many decisions
and habits and not the responsibility of anyone else. Just yourself. This also
means that we are not victims of the will of others in times of unhappiness and
when we are feeling unfulfilled. We are in the drivers seat and if we have the
courage to take action, we can have all the success and Excellence we want and
deserve.
Take away for this week: It is on us to take stock of the
situations in our lives and what has led us to those things, and here is the
most important part, take accountability and DO something about it! Not all at
once, necessarily, but one daily decision at a time and by working to change
one habit at a time too!
Have a great week!
Scuba
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