Transform Yourself!
Tuesday August 9, 2011
Saw this over at April's place & had to share - LOVE IT!
Course some would argue that transformation can be a future event - yes, you can plan for how you want to look or your goal weight or whatever it is BUT I think the point here is NOT to postpone the transformation with EXCUSES!
You know what I am saying - I will start tomorrow & tomorrow never comes OR it does & one bad move makes you retreat back to not trying.
Or the proverbial, I will start Monday - just make NOW your Monday & start already! If not, you may have 10 more excuses not to start by Monday.
You're getting my point - Take baby steps. Change one thing each week if that is what helps you get there. Each day take a walk & add 5 minutes each day OR try to do the same distance in less time.
JUST do it for you!!!!!!!!!!! Today - the present is the best time.
Quotes to think about:
Don't let yesterday use up too much of today. ~Cherokee Indian Proverb
If you have one eye on yesterday, and one eye on tomorrow, you're going to be cockeyed today. ~Author Unknown
Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. And today? Today is a gift. That's why we call it the present. ~Babatunde Olatunji, a similar version is also attributed to Alice Morse Earle
Children have neither past nor future; they enjoy the present, which very few of us do. ~Jean de la Bruyere
The future is always beginning now. ~Mark Strand, Reasons for Moving
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough. ~Albert Einstein
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Are you in the present?
Saw this over at April's place & had to share - LOVE IT!
Course some would argue that transformation can be a future event - yes, you can plan for how you want to look or your goal weight or whatever it is BUT I think the point here is NOT to postpone the transformation with EXCUSES!
You know what I am saying - I will start tomorrow & tomorrow never comes OR it does & one bad move makes you retreat back to not trying.
Or the proverbial, I will start Monday - just make NOW your Monday & start already! If not, you may have 10 more excuses not to start by Monday.
You're getting my point - Take baby steps. Change one thing each week if that is what helps you get there. Each day take a walk & add 5 minutes each day OR try to do the same distance in less time.
JUST do it for you!!!!!!!!!!! Today - the present is the best time.
Quotes to think about:
Don't let yesterday use up too much of today. ~Cherokee Indian Proverb
If you have one eye on yesterday, and one eye on tomorrow, you're going to be cockeyed today. ~Author Unknown
Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. And today? Today is a gift. That's why we call it the present. ~Babatunde Olatunji, a similar version is also attributed to Alice Morse Earle
Children have neither past nor future; they enjoy the present, which very few of us do. ~Jean de la Bruyere
The future is always beginning now. ~Mark Strand, Reasons for Moving
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough. ~Albert Einstein
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Are you in the present?
Posted by truth2beingfit at 8/8/2011 8:56 PM 
Categories: Motivation/Support, Fitness, Weight Loss, Awareness, Inspiration, Inspirational Quotes, Dieting, Acceptance
Tags: awareness dieting Diets fitness inspiration inspirational quotes motivation Weight Loss
Categories: Motivation/Support, Fitness, Weight Loss, Awareness, Inspiration, Inspirational Quotes, Dieting, Acceptance
Tags: awareness dieting Diets fitness inspiration inspirational quotes motivation Weight Loss
Yes! "Just do it" is not only an advertising slogan, it's damn good advice!
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Saretta, ya got that right!
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Hmm.. Transform now and never worry later or suffer later if you don't transform now. Very interesting.
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I LOVE IT! Great post Jody!
I can happily say I am in the present! I love where I am today and strive every day to make the right choices.
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Sheri - you are doing great & I have mucho respect for all you have battled!
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I've liked that Emerson quote ever since I read it!
For good or ill, I live very much in the present. It's just the way I was made.
Heinlein said, "Children live in the present, adults in the future, old people in the past." You'll have to look it up to read his recommendations on this.
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I love those quotes!! I have fallen into both traps: obsessing over the mistakes of yesterday, and putting off whatever it is until tomorrow. Thanks for the reminder.
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Hi Jody, LOVE the quotes. All words to live by. Have a great day!!
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I try hard to be present but it is hard with kids and always having to plan ahead for everything....but I do STOP every so often and enjoy the moment, knowing I will never get that moment back again ; )
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Well said!! I love all the quotes, I am going to copy a few and post them on my computer.Have a fabulous Tuesday.
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Great post!!!
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I try to be present, but it can be hard! Taking time to smell the flowers helps, literally. I go out to the garden to recoup my brain sometimes.
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