I love a good quote...or 80 million good quotes :)
These ones are in regard to how I've been feeling about work for the past few days - I understand I'm not stereotypical military. I understand I might not even be good for the military. But I have quite a few more years left in my contract, and until it's up, I'm going to be the best officer that I know how to be, regardless of the backlash for having a 'girly' girl in the ranks.
In regard to what may be thinly disguised jealousy over the success of my colleague (I'm very, very happy for her, and I need to remember that she worked hard, and that she and I are also different people with different leadership styles and personalities, both in and out of the workplace):
"Remember when you see a man at the top of a mountain, he didn't fall there."- Anonymous
When I consciously or subconsciously sabotage my own success:
"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves: who am I to be brilliant,gorgeous, talented, and fabulous? Actually who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that people around you wont feel insecure. We are all meant to shine, as children do.We are born to manifest the glory of God within us. It is not just in some of us: it is in everyone. And as we let our light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our fear, our presence automatically liberates others."-Nelson Mandela
When I feel like I just don't fit in at this job:
"All your life you are told the things you cannot do. All your life they will say you’re not good enough or strong enough or talented enough; they will say you’re the wrong height or the wrong weight or the wrong type to play this or be this or achieve this. THEY WILL TELL YOU NO, a thousand times no, until all the no’s become meaningless. All your life they will tell you no, quite firmly and very quickly, AND YOU WILL THEM YES!” - Nike
Obviously I've been tracking my struggles with weight ever since this blog started, so without further ado, my 'thinspirational' quotes:
"You are not four years old. You can tell yourself NO!" – Dr Phil
"Every bite is a choice." - 3fatchicks.com
"Nothing tastes as good as thin feels." - Anonymous
and for all the times I've daydreamed about looking 'perfect' and remembered idyllically life at 133:
"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them." - Thoreau
not to mention the times i've thought, "oh, just dessert at lunch won't kill me...":
Sacrifice is giving up something good for something better.- Anonymous
And best of all, the quotes that refer to my life as a whole - dieting, work, budgeting, etc:
"The only thing standing between who you are and who you want to be is what you do."
"If you have to eat a frog, don't spend too much time looking at it. If you have to eat two frogs, eat the biggest one first."
"Winners are too busy to be sad, too positive to be doubtful, too optimistic to be fearful, and too determined to be defeated." - Darryl Campbell
"Begin taking action now, while being neurotic or imperfect, or a procrastinator or unhealthy or lazy or any other label by which you inaccurately describe yourself. Go ahead and be the best imperfect person you can be and get started on those things you want to accomplish before you die."
Yay! now I just have to copy those down, paste them by my bed, and hope they take over my brain through osmosis ;)
1 comment:
Hello. I actually have always struggled with weight issues in my mind for a longg time. You shouldn't be so hard on yourself over a number. As long as you are exercising and eating right you should be proud. The lbs will fall eventually. Go to self magazine and look for an article on happy weight. It changed my life. Let me know what you think.
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