I read another book last night about how to find out who you really are and how you can get down to the real you and begin to have the life you really want or something like that. There are several parts to the procedure, but one is to select a motto that best describes your philosophy of life or of yourself. I haven’t given the process enough time to actually come up with a profile of who I really am, what I really want out of life and what motto to live by, but today at the gym, when I wanted to give up with my treadmill exercise, I decided that at least for this one project on this particular morning my motto was “just do it”, and I did. I raised my speed up to 4 miles an hour and my time to 31 minutes. I hope to be able to keep at the 4 miles per hour but stay at it for an hour before the year is up. I could do that 20 years ago, so I should be able to do it now, with time and effort.
Time and effort! All the cliches, the proverbs, the mottos, the life changing successes start and end with “time and effort”, don’t they. Just think about it – “you reap what you sow” – whatever time and effort you put into anything, be it something worthwhile or something frivolous, whatever time and effort you put into it shows up at the end. “You are what you think you are”, “Time heals all wounds”, “It takes one to know one”, “Life is just a bowl of cherries”, the “Golden Rule”, all of these and all of the other sayings end up the same way – whatever you put into something you get the same quality out - or “FOR EVERY ACTION THERE IS A RESULT!” That’s just the way life is, right?
Taking this into consideration, right now, at the beginning of a new year, when most of us are thinking about what we are going to do differently and better this year than we have in the past, lets start thinking about the results we truly want, and then work on the actions that will bring them about – and the first step is our thinking – we act the way we think and our results are the culmination of those thoughts and actions. So, if you want to have a slimmer, trimmer, more svelt and attractive body, feel years younger, bask in the admiration of your peers, get your thinking cap on and begin having thoughts about how you want to look, act and feel, and keep thinking those thoughts and soon your actions will follow in like manner and then the results will be as if there was a “magic pill”.
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