| Week of July 7, 2001 |
Weight:
205.75
Total Loss: 124.75 |
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10 Reasons Why Some People May Fail...
TrudyLautz, Jul 5 2001 12:31PM
Written by Gary Blair **
1. Taking Action Without Planning
When it comes to your goals and future, impulsiveness is the mother of regret. Considerable thought must be given to the ends as well as the means of your strategy.
2. Planning Without Taking Action
Endless preparation is worse than action without planning. Accept that things will never be perfect. Questions will forever exist. Plan well and launch!
3. Unrealistic Timeframes and Expectations
Life is a process not an event. Nothing great was ever built easily. Exercise wisdom and learn to be patient. Unfortunately most things in life take longer and cost more than the best-laid plans anticipate.
4. Reasons ``Why`` Are Unclear
Why you want to achieve a goal is more important than the goal itself. Before taking action on anything it is imperative that you ask yourself this key question: ``Why do I want to achieve this goal?``
5. Denial of Reality
It`s far easier to deny reality than it is too accept it. And far too many people take the easy way Success is information dependent, when we deny reality for whatever reason, we devalue the integrity of our information, thus ensuring failure.
6. Conflicting Values
When we have not clarified our reasons why or defined what success means to uspersonally, we operate on someone else`s definition. When that occurs values aresure to be in conflict and progress is short- circuited. v
7. Diffusion of Energy
Attempting to do too much is a recipe for mediocrity.
Rather than doing an excellent job at a few chosen goals we spread our energies over a vast terrain and diffuse what matters most; time and energy.
8. Lack of Focus
Success demands focus.
It is the hallmark of all truly great people. Your ability to get and remain focused or lack there of is perhaps the key determinant of your success.
9. Trying To Do It All Alone
Nobody goes through life alone, we all need the cooperation and assistance of others.
Put your pride aside and learn to ask for help when you need it. Learn to leverage and share knowledge for your own well being as well as for others who are dependent upon your cooperation.
10. Fear Of Failure
Fear of failure is The ``Grand Daddy`` of them all.
Far too many dreams have suffocated and died because of it. Fear resides where knowledge does not exist; the more you know about anything the less intimidated that you feel. Replace your fears with knowledge and watch your performance leap.
2001.07.09 GEM OF THE WEEK ... As a new feature, I will highlight a site that I've seen, or been told about, that is worthy of mention. This week's gem is CalorieKing.com. The site provides calorie information on many of the popular fast foods. In addition, it has a diary feature that will assist you by planning menus and providing the associated shopping lists, or letting you do your own planning and using it to log your food intake.
I find that their database is more up-to-date with the popular frozen foods than FitDay, which I now use. However, I like the Fitday web page, the way they provide a summary of my exercise as well as my calories, and provide a comparison to my nutritional goals (but I digress....).
I have not yet explored CalorieKing's use of the exercise information that you can enter. However, if I'm ever looking for the caloric or nutritional information on a modern product, CalorieKing is one of the first places I check.
Please, check it out. I think you will find it a handy reference site, if not one that you can use as the focus for your weight loss program. If you do happen to review the site, and have any opinions (positive or negative) that you would care to share, please drop me a line..
2001.07.13 PRIORTIES ... I haven't been keeping my priorities straight. Although I haven't been bad at eating, I haven't been working on my diet. My work has been demanding every spare minute for the past several weeks, and will continue for the next month or so. But I enjoy my work. I find it challenging. I guess that is why I have promoted it to the top priority. As a result, I haven't kept up the Journal very well, and I'm behind on my email. But the weekend is upon us, and I'll have some time then .. after I mow the lawn, wash the car, change the oil, etc.
Fred is soliciting success stories - anyone that has lost 75 lbs or more are urged to send their story in with pictures. I think it is a great idea. I hope he builds a "Success Gallery" of the stories on this web site. Promoting the positive, reinforced by examples of success, is what it is all about. It is one thing to read of one's struggles, and their determination to change their life, and something else to read of someone's success and the formula they used to achieve that success. I applaud him for this initiative, and will submit my story when I get a few minutes to put it together.
It looks like Vicki has us signed up for another half marathon. This one takes place here in San Jose, toward the end of October - about 3 weeks before the Seattle event. I wasn't planning to do more than one, but her sister wanted to do one, and didn't care to travel to Seattle at Thanksgiving time. We're ready - the distance shouldn't be a problem. So, bring it on!
It's just about time for bed. I need my sleep, so that I can get up to walk ... and see the sun come up.
Thank You for Visiting!!
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