Billie
03-21-2006, 07:01 AM
“People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.”
Zig Ziglar
As I look at the window and see about 3 inches of new snow and swirls more coming down, I tried to think about what to think about today! :D Certainly isn't spring here in central Illinois, (well actually it is last week tornadoes, this week snow storm is pretty typical weather). And I thought how we motivate ourselves, everyday to do things. Most of us don't like certain chores around the house, but we do them. Most of us have something at work that absolutely makes are day miserable. Most of us don't like to shop when the stores are packed. But somethings we have to do, we just have to do certain things.
Is that where we started going wrong with taking care of our bodies? Is it because we for example, HAD TO EAT OUR VEGGIES, or we HAD to clean our plate? Did that cause our motivation to faulter? I mean we are reasonable people (well there are some here...Sherry, Lita, Janet :D ) why is it that we have to continually motivate ourselves to take good care of ourselves, gosh that should be an automatic one, yet it is not.
I guess the quotation above is true,, motivation needs to be done everyday for us, in some way. Some of the great threads that we lost when we were hacked, there was one on motivation and what motivates people. No crying over spilled milk, it's gone, but we are not and we can build a new thread about what motivates people, a keeper thread so that we can turn to it when we need a dose of energy to stay on the program.
So motivation what is it that does it for you:
Do fears motivate you?
Does happiness motivate you?
Do your children or husband or wife motivate you?
New Clothes, does that do?
Going to the doctor for blood work, does that do?
Sure they can all motivate us, but what keeps up motivated? There are no quick answers here but lets build something we can use and put away in our resource library on tips for motivation.
One thing that motivates me, is everybody here!
Have a great day!
Zig Ziglar
As I look at the window and see about 3 inches of new snow and swirls more coming down, I tried to think about what to think about today! :D Certainly isn't spring here in central Illinois, (well actually it is last week tornadoes, this week snow storm is pretty typical weather). And I thought how we motivate ourselves, everyday to do things. Most of us don't like certain chores around the house, but we do them. Most of us have something at work that absolutely makes are day miserable. Most of us don't like to shop when the stores are packed. But somethings we have to do, we just have to do certain things.
Is that where we started going wrong with taking care of our bodies? Is it because we for example, HAD TO EAT OUR VEGGIES, or we HAD to clean our plate? Did that cause our motivation to faulter? I mean we are reasonable people (well there are some here...Sherry, Lita, Janet :D ) why is it that we have to continually motivate ourselves to take good care of ourselves, gosh that should be an automatic one, yet it is not.
I guess the quotation above is true,, motivation needs to be done everyday for us, in some way. Some of the great threads that we lost when we were hacked, there was one on motivation and what motivates people. No crying over spilled milk, it's gone, but we are not and we can build a new thread about what motivates people, a keeper thread so that we can turn to it when we need a dose of energy to stay on the program.
So motivation what is it that does it for you:
Do fears motivate you?
Does happiness motivate you?
Do your children or husband or wife motivate you?
New Clothes, does that do?
Going to the doctor for blood work, does that do?
Sure they can all motivate us, but what keeps up motivated? There are no quick answers here but lets build something we can use and put away in our resource library on tips for motivation.
One thing that motivates me, is everybody here!
Have a great day!