's motd Sunday March 28, 2010

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A FAILURE?

Sunday, 28 March 2010

I like to sit in the kitchen and read my e-mail at the butcher block table. I read my mail slowly because I really want to take in everything the writer is saying. As I read, I'm underlining phrases that stick out in my mind. I also underline their weights, the medications they may be using and circle some words they use that are upsetting to me. And today, I want to tell you that one of those words is...failure. That negative words shows up in phrases like these...

", I can't keep this weight off. I'm such a failure." Or I might see something like, "I'm stuck in a job that I just hate and even being there makes me feel like a failure." Then there's this one, "My husband and I have lived in a very sad marriage for years. I feel like a big failure at being married."Oh, I'm telling you, I just hate the word...failure. Do you remember the first time you saw that word? It would have been on your report card if you ever got an "F". And that "F" meant you'd failed one of the courses you were taking at school. And I don't have to tell those of you who've been there that bringing an "F" home to your parents, well, let's just say...no one celebrated.

I've heard some people call others they know failures. And I get so aggravated when I see or hear about that. Here's how I look at it...No one's a failure. No, not in my eyes. Now I do think that just about everyone in their lifetimes, at one time or another, have been quitters. (No, not Twitters...quitters!)I'm sure you know the patterns of a quitter. It's all about someone who gets excited with an idea they're going to pursue in order to improve their lives. But after starting out really good on pursuing that goal, slowly or suddenly, they turn their great plans off in their heads and...quit! For instance, you're on program to lose weight and for just a few moments, you get careless and end up stepping off program. And, next thing you know, you're eating like one of the brothers from Bonanza! Then you get all angry with yourself because you quit working on your weight-loss mission.I'll be honest with you, there was a time in my life where I felt like a failure. I'd tried so many diets and ended up quitting every one of them. And when I wasn't feeling so good about myself for quitting, I'd go to school that morning but my mind didn't go to school with me. It was off somewhere feeling sorry for me.

The first time I got an "F" in school, I told my parents that I'd lost my report card. (Any of you ever use that one?) I was just too embarrassed to show Leonard and Shirley that their son was a "failure." Honestly, I I felt so bad, I couldn't see a future for myself. I'd go to bed depressed and wake up the next morning still feeling depressed. But one day I gave myself a good shake, rattle and roll! I told myself to stop feeling like a failure because I was not a failure. I told myself to start believing that I'm a success and to begin living my life like I was, too.Look, in all of our lives, there's some success, probably more than we realize. But you have to start building on those successes rather than dwelling on the times when things didn't work out for you. So if you've been off the good health wagon for a while, please remember, you didn't fail...you quit. (And there's a big difference.) And, oh yes, you can get back on that healthy program starting...today!Have a successful Sunday!Love,

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Wow, that is so true! I admit that all the diets I thought failed were actually diets I quit! Puts a different light on it, doesn’t it?

Ann HStarted 09/01/09307/254/157 poundsMy Weightloss Journal:http://threeherring.wordpress.com/

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A FAILURE?

Sunday, 28 March 2010

Here's how I look at it...No one's a failure. No, not in my eyes. Now I do think that just about everyone in their lifetimes, at one time or another, have been quitters. (No, not Twitters...quitters!)Love,