"If you don't get lost, there's a chance you may never be found." ~Author Unknown
Was listening to a podcast from Joel Olsteen, pastor of Lakewood Church in Houston, TX. The message was all about identity and who we are. How we shouldn't feel like we are competing with others by driving the better car, having a better job, being smarter - what have you.
We are each in our own race and we need to remember that. He made the analogy of someone's neighbor praying for an hour every day and they don't even go to church. How that would make someone have to "compete" or "out-do" that person in some way. I've found that I have been guilty of that, seeing some of the totals on the weight loss support group. Seeing some people's numbers going down and my own as stagnant. I want to whine and just say "to heck with it" or get a burning desire to try and "out-do" that person.
What I get is burned out and depressed. But thanks to Joel, I can actually encourage and praise those people for their efforts instead of being bitter. They have their race, I have mine. Their goal maybe closer than mine, but we will both see the finish line.
Neil, EXCELLENT JOB! KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK AND KEEP ON INSPIRING OTHERS!
"Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves." ~Henry David Thoreau
Matty
www.iweighedmorethanjared.com
Friday, July 27, 2007
Friday, July 20, 2007
Moving On...
"The past is a good place to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there." - Author Unknown
Got back on my bike this week after a long hiatus. It felt good to get out there again. One thing I noticed this morning while riding was all the houses for sale. I counted at least a dozen in my neighborhood.
It's always good to move on, doesn't necessarily mean on to bigger & better things, but moving on to a better situation. Hanging onto the past doesn't allow you the opportunity to embrace the future with open arms. Whatever mistakes that were made in the past, learn from them and move on. If the row gets harder to hoe, don't wish for the times that were easier.
Grudges, now I have a hard time with this one, need to be set free and let go of. By holding grudges you are allowing the people that originally hurt you to continue to do so with the constant reminder in the back of your brain. You may not be able to forget, but you should be able to forgive.
Moving past the roadblocks in our journeys are imperative if we want to succeed. What may seem like Mt. Kilimanjaro now, may in reality be a simple mole hill when we look back on it when we have moved on.
Keep that in mind today, what roadblocks are in your way today? What do you need to change in order to move on?
"When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us." - Alexander Graham Bell
Matty
www.iweighedmorethanjared.com (updated!)
Got back on my bike this week after a long hiatus. It felt good to get out there again. One thing I noticed this morning while riding was all the houses for sale. I counted at least a dozen in my neighborhood.
It's always good to move on, doesn't necessarily mean on to bigger & better things, but moving on to a better situation. Hanging onto the past doesn't allow you the opportunity to embrace the future with open arms. Whatever mistakes that were made in the past, learn from them and move on. If the row gets harder to hoe, don't wish for the times that were easier.
Grudges, now I have a hard time with this one, need to be set free and let go of. By holding grudges you are allowing the people that originally hurt you to continue to do so with the constant reminder in the back of your brain. You may not be able to forget, but you should be able to forgive.
Moving past the roadblocks in our journeys are imperative if we want to succeed. What may seem like Mt. Kilimanjaro now, may in reality be a simple mole hill when we look back on it when we have moved on.
Keep that in mind today, what roadblocks are in your way today? What do you need to change in order to move on?
"When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us." - Alexander Graham Bell
Matty
www.iweighedmorethanjared.com (updated!)
Thursday, July 12, 2007
Experience...
I know this post is early, I am going on our second vacation as a family tomorrow so I won't be around - so enjoy!
"Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." Aldous Huxley
This week's episode of "The Fattening of America" is titled, "Puttin' on the Foil", which is a reference to the movie "Slapshot" starring Paul Newman. The focus of the episode was a call-to-arms, calling us to "put on the foil" daily in order to be ready for the battle.
Gaining experience is one way to prepare for battle. Sure we all make mistakes in our lives, trial and error are ways to gain experience so that we can take that knowledge and integrate it into our databases for similar situations that may come up.
Someone once asked Thomas Edison how he felt about failing 10,000 times before finding a working solution to the lightbulb. Thomas replied that he did not fail 10,000 times but rather found that inventing his lightbulb took 10,000 steps.
My "diet" isn't a "diet" per se, it is rather a lifelong journey. And I will continue to battle on a daily basis, hence I too will have to remember to "put on the foil"...
"Experience is what causes a person to make new mistakes instead of old ones." - Author Unknown
Matty
www.iweighedmorethanjared.com (updated!)
"Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." Aldous Huxley
This week's episode of "The Fattening of America" is titled, "Puttin' on the Foil", which is a reference to the movie "Slapshot" starring Paul Newman. The focus of the episode was a call-to-arms, calling us to "put on the foil" daily in order to be ready for the battle.
Gaining experience is one way to prepare for battle. Sure we all make mistakes in our lives, trial and error are ways to gain experience so that we can take that knowledge and integrate it into our databases for similar situations that may come up.
Someone once asked Thomas Edison how he felt about failing 10,000 times before finding a working solution to the lightbulb. Thomas replied that he did not fail 10,000 times but rather found that inventing his lightbulb took 10,000 steps.
My "diet" isn't a "diet" per se, it is rather a lifelong journey. And I will continue to battle on a daily basis, hence I too will have to remember to "put on the foil"...
"Experience is what causes a person to make new mistakes instead of old ones." - Author Unknown
Matty
www.iweighedmorethanjared.com (updated!)
Friday, July 06, 2007
What fits you?
"Chase down your passion like it's the last bus of the night." - Glade Byron Addams
What fits you for exercise? Is jogging your bag? How about golf? We are all unique and have different likes, passions, dislikes. It's up to you to figure out what fits you in every area of your life. I enjoy getting up at 4am and jogging in the early morning. The rabbits in the yards, the dew on the grass, the quietness of the streets help me to focus on just being alive. I get some of my ideas during this time since there are no distractions to hinder my thought process.
I am beginning to understand what fits me and what doesn't. MLMs do not fit me. I recall a few months ago when a trusted friend/mentor tried to get me to join some crackpot MLM scheme. MLMs can be profitable business ideas but you have to have a certain personality to make it work. I do not fit the personality needed to make a venture like that work.
Broke my heart to have this person continually push me into handing over $274 that I didn't have. The huckster that came to his house to push this on me was a piece of work. Talking about how he has a Hummer and a BMW paid for, wears a Rolex watch, telling me that this fits in with Dave Ramsey and Robert Kyosaki's teachings on one side of his mouth and then asking me for a credit card number out the other side. All this before really explaining what the venture really was.
Found out through my own research that the money is made from getting people to get onboard under you. Think "pyramid scheme" and this is where the particular MLM model I was being sold.
Whether it's finding a new job, a new exercise program, lifestyle management, whatever it is - you need to find something that fits you. There is no cookie-cutter, end-all be-all that spells instant success that you can plug into. You are unique and it's up to you to find out what you're all about.
"Don't ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. " - Harold Whitman
Matty
www.iweighedmorethanjared.com
What fits you for exercise? Is jogging your bag? How about golf? We are all unique and have different likes, passions, dislikes. It's up to you to figure out what fits you in every area of your life. I enjoy getting up at 4am and jogging in the early morning. The rabbits in the yards, the dew on the grass, the quietness of the streets help me to focus on just being alive. I get some of my ideas during this time since there are no distractions to hinder my thought process.
I am beginning to understand what fits me and what doesn't. MLMs do not fit me. I recall a few months ago when a trusted friend/mentor tried to get me to join some crackpot MLM scheme. MLMs can be profitable business ideas but you have to have a certain personality to make it work. I do not fit the personality needed to make a venture like that work.
Broke my heart to have this person continually push me into handing over $274 that I didn't have. The huckster that came to his house to push this on me was a piece of work. Talking about how he has a Hummer and a BMW paid for, wears a Rolex watch, telling me that this fits in with Dave Ramsey and Robert Kyosaki's teachings on one side of his mouth and then asking me for a credit card number out the other side. All this before really explaining what the venture really was.
Found out through my own research that the money is made from getting people to get onboard under you. Think "pyramid scheme" and this is where the particular MLM model I was being sold.
Whether it's finding a new job, a new exercise program, lifestyle management, whatever it is - you need to find something that fits you. There is no cookie-cutter, end-all be-all that spells instant success that you can plug into. You are unique and it's up to you to find out what you're all about.
"Don't ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. " - Harold Whitman
Matty
www.iweighedmorethanjared.com
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