Scale It Down

If you had to summarize what motivational speakers are always motivating about in one statement, it's this: successful people do things that others don't.

Translation:
thin people do things that fat people don't.

Whether it's getting up earlier than usual to accomplish something, (we've become quite accustomed to greeting the day between 4 and 5 a.m. while putting this site together), or working late into the night; success comes to those who do things consistently and differently than others.

The interesting thing about listening to motivational speakers or reading insightful books is, the experience makes you think about what's working and what isn't working in your life. Sometimes it comes down to the same message you've heard or seen a million times before, but put in a different way that suddenly makes you click. Other times, it's not even what you may be listening to, seeing or hearing, but when the message comes to you, you're actually in that special place where thought and action becomes an amicable duo. (Do we dare say, 'ready for a change'?) In either case, cultivating a productive and positive state of mind, is one of the best overall things we can do for ourselves on any front. In other words, psyche UP, not out.

One of our favorite psyche UPs, came from motivational guru, Anthony Robbins. He tells a story of how he accomplished doing something he didn't want to do, but had to, by figuring out how to do it in a pleasing manner. (Which is exactly what changing your approach to weight control is all about.) At the end of a long day, Robbins had hundreds of phone messages to return and was overwhelmed at the thought of doing so until he figured out he could sit in his Jacuzzi with a cordless phone and dial away. OKAY, it's a rich 'n famous metaphor, but the premise is great. The moral of the story is: find your Jacuzzi and make it work for you.

When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. - Dr. Wayne Dyer

It must happen in your mind before it happens in your life. - Zig Ziglar

Life will pay whatever price you ask for it. - Anthony Robbins

Change your thinking and you can change the direction of your life. A decision without a deadline is a conversation without an end. - Brian Tracy

You get what you expect. We become what we think about. What the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve. - Earl Nightingale

Thou shalt decree a thing and it shall be established unto thee and the light shall shine upon thy ways. - Job 22:38

When you choose the behavior you choose the consequence. - Dr. Phil McGraw

All know the way. Few actually walk it. - Bodhidharma (founder of Zen 6th century)

Good habits are hard to form, but easy to live with. Bad habits are easy to form, but hard to live with. - Ed Forman

You have to stop in order to change direction - Erich Fromm

A good intention clothes itself with power. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction. - Winston Churchill

If your attention is focused on the obstacles to obtaining what you desire, it is no longer concentrating on the means to obtain your desire. -Dr. Joseph Murphy

Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. - H. Ross Perot

You can never plan the future by the past. - Edmund Burke

There may be no heroic connotation to the word persistence, but the quality is to your character what carbon is to steel. - Napolean Hill

What we see depends mainly on what we look for. - Sir John Lubbock

All things be ready, if the mind be so. - Shakespeare

You can never take your eye off the bottom line-no pun intended. - Jim Karas

The [food] choice is yours. - Dr. Howard Shapiro

The way you think [about food] will ultimately dictate your long term success or failure. - Bob Greene

The more you eat, the less flavor; the less you eat, the more flavor. - Chinese Proverb

If you don't watch your figure, you'll have more figure to watch. - Malcom Forbes

Stomachs shouldn't be waist baskets. - P.K. Thomajan

You can't change your weight, until you change your mind. - Susan Amato, CSW

I've been on a constant diet for the last two decades. I've lost a total of 789 pounds. By all accounts, I should be hanging from a charm bracelet. - Erma Bombeck

Stressed, spelled backwards is: DESSERTS - Unknown

I work so hard to stay in shape. Whenever I read anything it says, "Consult your doctor before doing any exercise." It always says that. Does anybody do that? I kind of think my doctor has people coming in with serious problems. I don't think I should call him and say, "Hi, this is Rita. I'm thinking of bending at the waist." - Rita Rudner, That's Funny!

I used to have a scale around all the time, but then I caught him cheating on me. - J.J. Rusch

Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine. - Bumper Sticker

Shake and shake the catsup bottle, none will come, and then a lot'll. - Richard Armour

Food: part of the spiritual expression of the French, and I do not believe that they have ever heard of calories. - Beverly Baxter

To eat is human, to digest, divine. - Charles Townsend Copeland

I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks. - Totie Fields

Not a deed would he do, Not a word would he utter, Till he's weighed its relation to plain bread and butter. - James Russell Lowell

The extra calories needed for 1 hour of intense mental effort, would be completely met by eating 1 oyster cracker or ½ of a salted peanut. - Francis Benedict