Slow Progress Is Still Progress

                                                                
                                                  "Some quit due to slow progress.
                                          Never grasping the fact that slow progress,
                                                                    is progress."

I don't know about you...

But sometimes I feel really frustrated with the slow progress I am making in my own life and with my own vision and goals.
I know change is difficult and it takes commitment and often it takes and a long time. 

It also takes a lot of dedication, persistence and perseverance to make big and lasting changes in our own lives. 

                                 "Don't worry about how slowly you feel you're going, 

                         or how many roadblocks you find, or detours you need to take, 

                     you're still cruising far ahead of anyone who's too afraid to even try."

                                                             - Karen Salmansohn

I try to tell myself that it will take some time to change behaviors and thought pattern that I have had for a long time. It won't happen overnight. I have to learn to be patient with myself. But often I run out of patience and I want it to happen now.

How about you... have you ever felt this way about something that you really want to change or with something that you want to make progress with in your life?

                            "Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, 

                                                             no matter how slow."

                                                                      - Plato

A couple of weeks ago I came across these wonderful words and today I want to share them with you. 

If you are trying to make some changes in your life right now and are feeling frustrated with your slow progress... you will probably find these words soothing and encouraging.

Because of the many years of past conditioning and the intense training you have in holding on to toxic thoughts, behaviors and unhealthy relationships, giving up on, all that toxic in your life won't be easy and it won't happen overnight.

Chances are that you won't see major improvements in your life immediately, and that's okay

Be patient and gentle with yourself while working on rebuilding your life and remember to enjoy the journey.

Always focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing the activity but doing it.

Remember to take one step at a time.

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What's Your Excuse?

"Excuses are tools of incompetence,

used to build monuments of nothing."

- Thomas J. Smith

This morning I didn´t feel like going out on my daily morning walk. It was wet, gloomy and cold outside. I was trying to come up with every reason or should I say...EXCUSE  in the world, why I shouldn´t have to go walking.

Well as it turned out I couldn´t come up with a good enough reason or excuse why I 

shouldn´t exercise and besides that my dog Lady was ready and excited  to go for her walk. 

Discipline is what we are going to talk about today.
It is a dreaded word by a lot of people.

So what is discipline?

Discipline is simply doing what you know needs to be done even when you don´t feel like it or want to do it.

A few great quotes

"With self-discipline most anything is possible."
- Theodor Roosevelt

"Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments."
- Jim Rohn

"The first and best victory is to conquer self"
- Plato

We live in a society built around convenience. The downside to this is that it has made us lazy, both mentally and physically. 

The desire to set a goal and to accomplish it is there, but the self-sacrifice needed to make the goal into reality, isn't.

If you attempt to accomplish a goal based on when it is convenient for you... you will be running around in a giant hamster wheel chasing your goals and your dreams without any chance of ever accomplishing them.

A great way to develop self-discipline is to make a habit to do things you should be doing when you feel the laziest. Every time you feel really lazy, do the opposite of what you really feel like doing.

Isn´t it about time you stopped making excuses... and if you don´t do it NOW ... "later" is not going to happen.
Excuses mean that you are not committed. It also means that you are not taking responsibility for your own life.

I think Jim Rohn said it best....

"Everyone must choose one of two pains:
The pain of discipline or the pain of regret."

I don´t know about you... but I don´t want to ever live with regrets, so I will choose the pain of discipline.

At the end of the day, our excuses are what is keeping us from accomplishing our goals that we said we wanted to accomplish.

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