[Image from my Operation Beautiful Book Tour Post]
‘I don’t have a goal weight, I have a goal life.’
I heard this quote while watching an interview with an Extreme Weight Loss participant and it really clicked with me!
Along my journey, I realized that a certain number on the scale wouldn’t magically make my life perfect. For years I chased this number while becoming more and more unhappy.
I now focus on creating the life that I want, by taking small steps each day. It’s about how I feel each day when I wake up. If I wake up happy and eager to start the day, I know I’m on the right track. A certain number can’t dictate my happiness, but I can make changes in my life to feel my best.
While, I’m busy baking up orders today, I thought it would be fun to have a Glo Bar giveaway!
Leave a comment below sharing a lesson you’ve learned along your journey or simply share one of your favourite quotes.
One lucky winner will receive a delicious box of 10 Glo Bars! Goodluck!
Coming up, one of our favourite recipes so far in 2011….get excited!
My favorite quote is one from Dr. Suess and it is my life’s motto:
“Be who you are and say what you feel. Because those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind.”
Hmmm…not sure how to pick ONE lesson, but I’ll try!
I’ve learned that my body really does feel best on a plant-based, meat-free diet. Body knows best, and I’m feeling great these days.
I’ve learned to just focus on having fun! What else really matters?
With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever.”
– Isak Dinesen
I quote I read recently that really motivates me is “Change doesn’t happen in your comfort zone”.
I’ve been following your blog for over a month now and I really appreciate all that you share with us (recipes, life lessons, running advice). Thank you.
Okay, recent life lesson I learned is… to listen first then react. Often times I would feel like my family (mostly my young kids) were trying my patience with pushing their feelings (I took them as demands) on me. When I stopped to accept them as equals and respect/accept their feelings as valid and they were willing to share them with me, I found the gift of empathy. Empathy is a powerful tool for bonding with those you care about. Just as I want to be heard when I’m upset, so do they. Everyone is entitled to their feelings. You don’t have to agree with their feelings or find them rational, but to show them love and understanding all you need to do is listen. This one perspective has really relieved a lot of stress in my life.
My favourite quote is from Henry Ford:
‘Whether you think that you can, or that you can’t, you are usually right’.
It’s just soooo true. You have the power to either make something happen or make something not happen…whether you believe it or not :)
One of my favorite quotes is: Nothing is impossible if you have the will to do it!!
That being said, I say it everyday and am learing that something may seem impossible, as long as you are WILLING to give it a try……it will work.
Tammy
I’ve learned that it is of the utmost importance to be happy with yourself at the moment. Constantly saying…”When I have/feel/am ______, I will be happy,” is not a healthy thought pattern. I continue to strive for this each and every day.
Many years ago I came across a quote in the book, Sophie’s World, and haven’t forgotten it since:
“We too are stardust.”
I was floored by the beauty and simplicity of the quote- it was humbling and served as a reminder of where we as humans all came from (our earliest origins in space itself).
To this day I still remember the quote and love it :)
Hello. :)
Something I have learned in all my 22 years of life (I’m still a child, I know haha) is that you have to be your own comedian. You have to be able to see the silliness and humor in EVERYTHING, especially on the crappy, nothing-is-going-right-days…or else they will defeat you. Those crappy days or crappy circumstances will bleed you dry of your amazingness– they will make you bitter and cold and unhappy. Instead, take control of your attitude. Laugh when your trip or when you make a mistake. When you stumble…just make it part of the dance. And laugh at everything; it’s a good calorie burner. ;)
“The more I’m afraid of something, the more I know I have to do it. I figured that out when I was a kid. I can lead a protected life, hiding away from the scary world. Or I can take on the things that scare me the most. The more it might hurt, the more I might die doing it. The more worth doing it must be.”
Jodi Lerner
Happy Wednesday! :D
WOW you have your work cut out for you ,,,,that’s a lot of reading!! I read a few on my way down to ‘leave a comment’ and I really like and agree with there’s always tomorrow. I believe we are much harder on our selves and that others are too worried about there own problems to be looking and pointing at ”us”. Being upbeat and positve takes much less energy then negative energy. We might only have this one life so we should make the most of it<3
Also I really am happy to have found and your wonderful site!! I look forward to my e-mails and have tried ALL of your overnight oat ideas All of your green monsters and many of your other recipes,,,delish, delish, delish,,,thankyou and I hope your day is wonderful!
One of my favorite quotes is: It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are. ~e.e. cummings
I love that scale note and need to make one for myself.
“Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.” ~Confucius
My goal in life:
To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children…to leave the world a better place…to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The one is particularly meaningful as I am a paramedic and it has a literal meaning in the phrase “to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived.” My career is a ministry and this is very powerful.
A lesson I picked up from a Pema Chodron cd really stuck with me!
She told a story about a Monk who was driving his bike one day and got hit by a car. The car kept driving and people near by ran over to see if he was ok. The monk got up and even though he had a few minor injuries he blessed the man in the car who hit him. A lady saw this and turned to him and said “aren’t you so mad, that that man hit you and drove off” and the munk reply “no because someone who is happy would have never hit me and drove off, I know that man is hurting so I wish not to be angry at him”.
Lesson: When someone does something hurtful/uncaring or how ever you want to put it, it has nothing to do with you, this person is hurting on their own level. A person happy in their lives who never do something hurtful to someone else. So when someone says something mean to you ect just wish them happiness.
I grew up in a fairly unhealthy lifestyle and constantly struggled with my weight and eating habits. When I took up running in 2008, it helped me to flip the way I look at food, now I view it as fuel to power my day and it has made a huge difference in the quality of the foods I eat and how mindful I am of what i put in my body. This has helped me completely change my perspective and my health, and I’m now probably the healthiest and strongest I’ve ever been in my life.
I have learned to cut back on spending so much unnecessary time at the gym and rather spend my precious moments with my fiancee and my family!
One of my favourite quotes is “A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle.” -James Keller
I like it because it reminds me to try and be selfless and do more for other people because it can only make things better.