Day #22 - Never Give Up

Theme

Never x3 Give Up

Description

per·se·vere   

[pur-suh-veer] 

verb, -vered, -ver·ing.

–verb (used without object)

1. to persist in anything undertaken; maintain a purpose inspite of difficulty, obstacles, or discouragement; continue steadfastly.

To Do

Face the part of this process you find most challenging and conquer it!

Nourish Yourself

“A good technique is one that works”... that is the most important lesson I learned at university, a lesson that has stayed with me ever since.  When it comes to maintaining a healthy diet the type of (balanced) diet you choose is not nearly as is not nearly as important as your ability to stick with it. If you have not been able to stick to your regimen of choice the last three weeks then perhaps it is time to re-evaluate. Is the problem that you feel hungry, lack energy? 

Get Up & Go!

How is your workout plan going? Do you look forward to it with delight or disdain?  If you’re not having fun most likely you are not getting as much activity in as you would were the activity something you loved doing.... And heaven forbid you dread your activity of choice so much that it drives you to turn to food for solace and satisfaction

If what you have been doing thus far has been working, by all means stick with it!

Remember that exercise helps to suppress hunger and boost metabolism... let it do some of the work for you

Tools

Revisit your journal and log what you are doing every day (food consumption, activity etc) and make sure to note the results, both short and long term

Tip

How to Persevere (from WikiHow)

There are times in life when you will feel that everything around you is collapsing. Sometimes life falls apart and it is out of your control, and at other times, things go wrong and you know that it is your own fault. There will always be unexpected turns in your life but what separates success and failure is one thing. That is perseverance.

Identify your goal. This is purposely broad. Your goal may be to climb Mount Everest, to stop smoking, to get a better job, to lose weight, to gain more self control, to get yourself out of harmful habitual habits, or anything you can think of and desire to acheive

1. Plot a course. Educate yourself about your goal and develop a plan to achieve your goal.
2. Prepare. Realize that if your goal is very lofty that you will likely face multiple challenges and failures along the way. It is important to spiritually, and mentally, prepare yourself for these failures.
3. Take the first step. Nobody ever succeeded by not trying. Many people procrastinate in taking the first step because they fear failure. Failure is guaranteed when the first step is not taken.
4. When and if you fail. If you fail, realize what it is that caused you to fail and get back up. Keep on trying.
5. When you fail again. If you stupidly make the same mistakes over and over you must not get discouraged. Take a new approach to the situation or purpose in yourself to try harder.
6. When you fail for the 100th time. Re-assess your approach. Do not beat yourself up or you will never succeed. Understand why you failed and get over it. You are not a failure until you give up. If you fail keep on trying.

Tweak

This is the perfect time to reassess your weight loss plan and make small adjustments as necessary to ensure even greater success

Question

What have you been most successful with in the last three weeks? ... Kudos!

Thought

"When you feel like giving up, remember why you held on for so long in the first place." ~ Unknown

"Saints are sinners who kept on going." ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

"When the world says, 'Give up,' Hope whispers, 'Try it one more time.' " ~ Unknown

"Nobody trips over mountains.  It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble.  Pass all the pebbles in your path and you will find you have crossed the mountain."  ~ Unknown

Tidbits

on overcoming adversity:

Genius Can Spring From Adversity from DEAR ABBY Wednesday June 25, 1997 by: ABIGAIL VAN BUREN (excerpted, with reader comments)

Dear Readers: Yesterday's column was filled with the names (submitted by my readers) of individuals who managed to succeed against the odds, persevering in the face of life's adversities to become winners. Today's column is a continuation of that list.

• Call him a slow learner "retarded" and write him off as ineducable, and you have an Albert Einstein.
• Strike him down with infantile paralysis, and he becomes a Franklin D. Roosevelt, the only president of the United States to be elected to four terms. 
• Blind a man with musical talent, and you have a Ray Charles, George Shearing, Stevie Wonder, Tom Sullivan, Alec Templeton or Hal Krents. 
• Label a child as "too stupid to learn," and you have a Thomas Edison. 
• Make a man a "hopeless" alcoholic, and you have Bill Wilson, founder of Alcoholics Anonymous. 
• Tell a woman she's too old to start painting at 80, and you have a Grandma Moses. 
• Afflict a talented artist with periods of depression so severe that he cut off his own ear, and you have a Vincent Van Gogh. 
• The list would not be complete without a smiling Max Cleland, who lost both legs and an arm in Vietnam and formerly headed the Veterans Administration in Washington. He is now serving as a Democratic U.S. senator from Georgia. 
• Don't forget Patricia Neal, the fine actress who suffered a severe stroke but rehabilitated herself against overwhelming odds. 
• Blind a man at age 44, and you have John Milton, who, 16 years later, wrote "Paradise Lost." 
• Call a child dull and hopeless and flunk him in the sixth grade, and you have a Winston Churchill. 
• Punish a girl with poverty and prejudice, and she may survive to become another Golda Meir. 
• Pit a woman with a talent for science against sexual discrimination, and you have another Madame Curie. 
• Tell a young boy who loved to sketch and draw that he has no talent, and you have a Walt Disney. 
• Take a crippled child whose only home he ever knew was an orphanage, and you have a James E. West, who became the first chief executive of the Boy Scouts of America. 
• Rate a boy as "mediocre" in chemistry, and you have a Louis Pasteur. 
• Make someone a second fiddle in an obscure South American orchestra, and you have a Toscanini. 
• Deny a child the ability to see, hear and speak, and you have a Helen Keller. 

Treat

Get out and treat yourself to a cultural experience.  Goldstar offers theater and event tickets at radical discounts (commonly 50% off) and sometimes even free! “We help people get out more to live entertainment, like theater, comedy, sports, music, performing arts and even things like wine tastings, sushi making classes and rodeos.”Membership is no charge: 

https://www.goldstar.com/signup?gclid=CKT-x_bM9KgCFcPd4AodyE8zUQ

Blogs & Articles

Napoleon Hill’s 30 Major Causes of Failure: http://www.zaletabakman.ca/library/classic-authors/napoleon-hill/the-sixth-step/the-30-major-causes-of-failure/

In Sum

Now nothing's impossible, I've found for when my chin is on the ground,

I pick myself up, dust myself off, and start all over again.

Don't lose your confidence if you slip, be grateful for a pleasant trip,

And pick yourself up, dust off, start over again.

Work like a soul inspired until the battle of the day is won.

You may be sick and tired, but you be a man, my son.

Will you remember the famous men who have to fall to rise again,

So take a deep breath, pick yourself up, start all over again.

(musical interlude)

You gotta work like a soul inspired until the battle of the day is won.

You may be sick and tired, but you be a man, my son.

Will you remember the famous men who have to fall and then to rise again,

So take a deep breath, pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and start all over again.

(musical interlude)

Once again now:

Will you remember the famous men who have to fall and then rise again,

So take a deep breath, pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and start all over again.