Fear of change, Fear of Failure, Self Destructive or Just Plain Lazy?
Last Friday I spoke to a new friend of mine about some of her health challenges. She has diabetes and it has gotten to be pretty serious. Her blood sugar levels are consistently over 300….I had no idea if that was bad or good, but apparently that is very high. She said that her doctor has told her on numerous occasions that she is going to die if she does not make drastic changes to her life and lifestyle.
She looked at me while were talking and she told me that she needed help – someone to work out with her so that she can get motivated and get consistent. As she looked at me with her eyes welled up with tears and she told me in a clear loud voice, “If I don’t make these changes, I’m going to die“.
This whole conversation struck me deeply on a number of levels. One because she is such an amazing and beautiful person and of course I am concerned about her health, but I was also quite fascinated about the fact that she had been told repeatedly that she needed to do something about her weight and eating habits but yet she was sipping on a Mountain Dew soda right before I walked up.
Why is it that we as people know we need to something, know that we should do something, know that our life hangs in the balance – but yet WE STILL DON’T DO IT!
People tend to get complacent about their lives and forget that they are the person who holds the key to the results that they get in life. People tend to fail, because they believe that there is something else outside of them that is causing them to be a certain way.
“I’m overweight because it is hereditary in my family” – No you are overweight because you overeat and don’t work out.
“I am too busy to go back to school” – Well you are not too busy to watch television for a few hours a night and go to the club every weekend.
“I am late because traffic was so terrible getting down here”. – No, you were late because you woke up late and didn’t get out of the house on time.
You and only you have the ability to change your life. If you have a situation in life and you don’t like what you see, you are the only person who can make the changes to revitalize your life. The first step to this is taking responsibility for what you do and don’t do. Nothing just happens in life. Everything is the result of some type of action – either conscious action or passive action If you take conscious action, you control the results in your life. If you take passive action you allow circumstances to happen and you choose to live by default.
My thought for the week is to take action! Remember, “the journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”- Lao Tzu, Chinese philosopher.
Life is Short. DREAM BIG!
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