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(In need of) Motivation Monday

[ 36 ] 03/01/2010 |

My own motivation has been a little lax lately.  There’s no real reason…it just happens every once in a while.  You’re coasting along and every thing is hunky dory.  Suddenly, you realize that you are sitting like a bump on a log, you haven’t exercised in a week and yes you did eat a whole bag of tortilla chips in one sitting!

So what do you do? What do you do when you are supposed to be motivating people and you realize that you can’t even motivate yourself?

Personally, I find a great quote that gets me over the hump.  Just something to give me that little extra push to make that first step.  Here are some of my favorites:

Eighty percent of success is showing up.  ~Woody Allen

Success and failure.  We think of them as opposites, but they’re really not.  They’re companions – the hero and the sidekick.  ~Laurence Shames

Attitudes are contagious.  Are yours worth catching?  ~Dennis and Wendy Mannering

Don’t say you don’t have enough time.  You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresea, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.  ~Life’s Little Instruction Book, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

If you have time to whine and complain about something then you have the time to do something about it.  ~Anthony J. D’Angelo, The College Blue Book

Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.  ~Will Rogers

Do you have a quote you live by?  Something you say to yourself to get that little extra “oomph” you need?  Share it in the comments!

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  • Nancy

    If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves. Needless to say, if I get off my ass now, I'll be much better in the years to come. I just finished day one of the Shred. Yoweeeeee!

  • http://www.babytealeaves.blogspot.com Christie O.

    “The only failure in life is the failure to try.” – Unknown.
    “Before you can accomplish something, you must first expect it of yourself.” – Unknown

    I live by both of these.

  • Nancy

    Oh yeah and my favorite One More Mile shirt….You don't have to go fast, you just have to go.

  • Bari_F

    “Do or do not…there is no try.” – Yoda (yes, my inner nerdness rears its ugly head)

    And, Nancy, I totally need that One More Mile shirt-I'm going to search for it now! That is so where I am right now in my running :)

  • BrookeF

    ooh, i like the one about time – i have people tell me that they don't have the time to do all the things that i do. i'll have to shoot that one back at them. i'm a firm believer that you have all the time to do the things you choose to do.

    “Never give up – never surrender” Galaxy Quest
    Who knew a Tim Allen spoof of Star Trek could provide serious inspiration??

  • BrookeF

    woot! great job nancy!!

  • BrookeF

    i have two favorites of their shirts the first is “toenails are for sissies” cause i lost my first toenail training for my half”

    and my other favorite is the one with the logo on the front and on the back “dear god, please let there be someone behind me to read this”

    i was really feeling that one when the old lady in the back brace was ahead of me for the first 6 miles of the race!

  • http://www.whooosthatgirl.com Lissa_ShrinkingJeans

    Woo-hoo!

  • http://www.whooosthatgirl.com Lissa_ShrinkingJeans

    You must tell me the one I love by your husband. I forgot it already. ;p

  • http://www.whooosthatgirl.com Lissa_ShrinkingJeans

    Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresea, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein. ~Life’s Little Instruction Book, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

    LOVE, LOVE, LOVE.

  • http://www.littleladybugthatcould.blogspot.com ladybugs714

    My favorite is “Pain is weakness leaving the body” I think it's an old Marine saying. So true….the stronger you get, the less working out hurts! Def keeping this in my head this month during the Shred Challenge!

  • Amparo

    “Get busy living or get busy dying.” Red to Andy in The Shawshank Redemption!

  • http://www.babytealeaves.blogspot.com Christie O.

    LOL that one is “You just put one foot in front of the other. For a while. Until you're done.” -Evan O.

    hahahahhahah!

  • http://www.babytealeaves.blogspot.com Christie O.

    OHMIGOD i love that one. LOVE! love love love love. Motivation wall-worthy for sure. Actually all of these are. I might have to make it bigger.

  • http://www.babytealeaves.blogspot.com Christie O.

    OOOOOH i love that one!! i have heard it before and i forgot!!!!! LOVE!

  • http://www.babytealeaves.blogspot.com Christie O.

    every time i think i've read my favorite, i read another great one! love it!

  • http://www.whooosthatgirl.com Lissa_ShrinkingJeans

    I'm baaaaaack….

    “If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.” ~Maya Angelou

  • http://www.whooosthatgirl.com Lissa_ShrinkingJeans

    Brilliant.

  • http://www.whooosthatgirl.com Lissa_ShrinkingJeans

    I was just repeating it from the post cuz I love it so much.

    Have I told you that I just LOVE all these quotes. I could totally decorate a whole wall in my house with them and put some books in it, and it would totally be heaven. For real, yo.

  • http://christy.shrinkingjeans.net Christy_TheSistherhood

    All of these quotes are AMAZING! I'm planning to do a scrapbook documenting my training for and the weekend of the 1/2 marathon, and I am totally printing these out to put in my book! WOW!!!!! I think I've found the motivation I needed to get off my ass and shred today! WOOT!

  • JennyGirl

    Nothing tastes as good as being thin feels.

  • weightlossmama

    Instead of giving myself reasons why I can't, I give myself reasons why I can.

    You must begin to think of yourself as becoming the person you want to be. – David Viscott

    The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body. The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results. – Anthony Robbins

    Get rid of the negative people in your life – surround yourself with positive people who believe in you and inspire you.

    Nothing tastes as good as being healthy and full of energy feels.

    “Unless You Puke, Faint or Die, Keep Going!” – Jillian Michaels

    If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else.
    It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits.
    There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them. – Bruce Lee

    Exercise: you don't have time not to. – Unknown

    The hardest thing about exercise is to start doing it. Once you are doing exercise regularly, the hardest thing is to stop it.
    - Erin Gray

    And i am totally agreeing with adding all of these great quotes to my wall of motivation!

  • Lisa_ShrinkingJeans

    If it ain't raining, then you ain't training. (My husband's response to me when I was complaining about the light rain on my training run day. For the record, I did run in that rain and it was one of my BEST runs ever.)

    Attitude determines altitude. (I don't know who said it but I love it)

  • pubsgal

    Those are great! I keep meaning to get the one that says, “Does this shirt make my butt look fast?”

  • pubsgal

    One of my favorites is, “It's never too late to become what you might have been”. -George Elliot

  • Stephanie

    This is my absolute favorite:

    “Fairytales are more then true, not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.” – G.K.Chesterton

    In this case..dragons are the long, grueling workouts that we never want to do, but do anyway. And in the end..we've beaten them. At least until tomorrow. :D

  • anng

    Food isn't the enemy; sitting still is…so GET MOVING!! — don't know who said it, but I have it on my motivation wall and it keeps me motivated!!

  • TheaDramaMama

    That's awesome, Nancy! Great job!

  • TheaDramaMama

    I definitely need to work on expecting it of myself!

  • TheaDramaMama

    i so love ths quote!! I don't know why it's not on my list!

  • TheaDramaMama

    Ain't that the truth!

  • TheaDramaMama

    Oh, I almost put this one on there, too! LOVE THIS QUOTE!

  • http://www.crazyadventuresinparenting.com/ LisaCrazyAdventuresinParenting

    I love LOVE this! Thank you!

  • http://www.crazyadventuresinparenting.com/ LisaCrazyAdventuresinParenting

    Woofreakinhoo! :D

  • nadinea

    I have two favorites. “Whether you think you can or you can't — you're right” (Henry Ford) and “It's not who you are that holds you back, its who you think you're not” – Denis Waitley.

  • nadinea

    I have two favorites. “Whether you think you can or you can't — you're right” (Henry Ford) and “It's not who you are that holds you back, its who you think you're not” – Denis Waitley.