The jouney to 150lbs

• Success is a journey, not a destination. Focus on the process.

• Some people dream about success... while others wake up and work hard at it.

• Success is achieved and maintained by those who try - and keep trying.

• Everyday is a good day to SUCCEED.

• When you get to a plateau, think of it as a landing on the stairway to your goal. And maintenance is a lifelong plateau, so a bit of "rehearsal" for maintenance isn't the worst thing in the world.

• I wake up every day with the realization that this is it, that there's only one shot at this life and I can either enjoy the ride and live it to its fullest and to my highest potential or I can stay the way I am.

• You get whatever you settle for.

• Your past does not equal, nor does it dictate, your future.

• One definition of insanity is: Doing the same thing again and again and expecting a different result.

• Be specific in what you want, and use specific words. Empower yourself, and become the person you dream about.

• Listen closely: the only time it's too late to change yourself is when you're dead. Until then, you're simply making excuses or lying to yourself.

• We can reverse years of damage to our bodies by deciding to raise our standards for ourselves, then living differently. Old wounds heal, injuries repair, and the whole system improves with just a few changes in what we put into our bodies and how we move them.

• Discipline is remembering what you want.

• You have failed only when you quit trying. Until then, you're still in the act of progression. So, never quit trying and you'll never be a failure.

• If we defend our habits, we have no intentions of quitting them.

• When one approach is not working to reach the desired goal, that's not a reason to abandon the goal. Instead, it is time to devise another approach.

• If you want what you do not have, you must do what you have not done.

• The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Strengthen Your Desire! Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.

• Your body keeps an accurate journal regardless of what you write down...

• Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.

• He who gets up one more time than he falls, makes it through... 

• Start doing what's necessary, then do what's possible, and suddenly you'll be doing the impossible!

• In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest.

•  A year from now, you may wish you had started today.

• The greatest thing you have is the 24 hours in front of you. The past is gone; the future is distant. Today you CAN succeed. Set a goal you can achieve in the next 24 hours.

• The fishermen know the sea is dangerous and the storms are terrible, but they have never found this sufficient reason to remain on shore.

• Obstacles are what we see when we take our eyes off the goal.

• The odds of hitting a target go up dramatically when you aim at it.

• Discouragement

  If you've invested enough effort and energy to get discouraged, you're well on your way to success. Discouragement is a certain weigh station on the road to any worthwhile achievement.   If you know and care enough to be discouraged, you've made considerable progress. Learn what the discouragement has to teach you and then continue moving forward. It may seem as though you'll never make it, but in reality you're already there. Discouragement tempers and hardens you; it does not stop you.   Reflect on your discouragement and you'll discover that it is a result of your commitment. You've already invested your time, your effort, your life. Soon, you'll reap the full reward of that investment. Let discouragement spur you on.   Motivation is born of desire. The stronger the desire for something, the stronger the motivation.    Endeaver to keep the promises we make to ourselves... We deserve to be treated with the same love and respect that we would give to others.....

• Worrying does not empty tomorrow of its troubles; it empties today of its strength.

• Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.

• There are two choices really. You can either surrender to the pressures of life and the struggles of this particular battle....or you continue the fight...and do so with even more vengence and determination to reach your goals then you did before. I choose the fight.....I know what it will get me.

• Focus on where you want to go, not on what you fear.

• The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.

• There is no one giant step that does it. It's a lot of little steps.

• 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.

• Clear your mind of can't.

• You can't be a winner and be afraid to lose.

• That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do; not that the nature of the thing itself is changed, but that our power to do is increased.