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Five daily blogs about life's 5 big choices on five different sites.
Once again, this post is copied from Lane 8’s archives exactly one year ago:
Yes. Gold medal effort. That’s all I can ask of myself, “Did I do my best”?
Yes, I did.
It’s a question we should ask ourselves daily, “Will you do your very best”?
These two crazy dreamers (below) claim, “If your goal isn’t impossible, you’re not reaching high enough”.
Carpe diem, jeff noel 🙂
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Eventually, the energy and enthusiasm of a “New Year’s Resolution wears off.
Then what?
This is where most people fail.
Only about 3% of New Year’s Resolutions ever make it.
So there was a desperate need for a simple tool to overcome the temptation to give up and revert back to the old ways (again)…
Yeah, roughly 3,103 days of, “One day at a time”.
Three thousand days and nights.
Plus one hundred three more.
You know, more or less.
Somebody want to do the math? I picked the biggest drinking night in the entire world to quit (for the third time) – December 31, 2001.
This means December 30 was the final night.
I guess it had been nearly three decades.
December 31, 2001 was very surreal….
Apparently, and collectively as a Nation, we don’t want it bad enough.
We want it to be easy.
We want it to be quick.
We want it to not interfere with our routine.
We want it to taste good.
We want it to be pain-free.
And over 2/3 of our population is in desperate need.
The only time we can get people to run is when we ask, “How bad do you want it?”
Setting goals is good (and easy), and we all know how to do this. We learned it as a child and it’s called imagination.
Reaching goals is good (and much harder), and we all have had some success with this. We like doing it because of the satisfaction called “sense of accomplishment”.
Now here’s the tricky part.
Maintaining that level of achievement.
That’s what my blogs are about. Dreaming big. Getting there. Staying there.
If your goal isn’t impossible, you’re not reaching high enough.
Don’t forget to factor in the “staying there” part into your big health goals.