Facing Fear

We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face . . .We must do that which we think we cannot.
-Eleanor Roosevelt

Ancient Chinese Proverb

That the birds of worry and care fly over your head, this you cannot change, but that they build nests in your hair, this you can prevent.

Quote from Michael Jordan

"I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 hundred games. Twenty-six times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."
Michael Jordan

Finding a Weight Loss Buddy

When you're serious about losing that excess weight, enlisting the support of a buddy can be an incredible source of support. Your buddy is someone who can help you move beyond any potential obstacles, rather than commiserate with you.

Though there are challenges to be had when you take on any goal, a true buddy is there to help you keep your eye on what you desire, rather than succumb to the temptation to focus on any apparent difficulties. You want a buddy who is compassionate about your problems, but someone who chiefly wants to help you celebrate and grow your successes.

It's essential that your weight loss buddy believe that it's possible for you to change your life and your eating habits and can imagine you in a new way. Both of you must know that a pattern is only a matter of conditioning in the brain, and as human beings we absolutely have the ability to break through old mental programs that no longer serve us.

What it takes is a deep desire, a belief that it's possible succeed, and a commitment to taking the actions that lead us to the result that we desire. It also requires the willingness to forgive ourselves each time we mess up, because "failure" is inevitable as we move toward ultimate success. Whether we are caring for an elderly parent, raising a "difficult" child, struggling with financial issues, or living with an insensitive spouse, no matter what our impediments, it doesn't benefit us to have a buddy who gets as “caught” by our difficulties as we do. A weight loss buddy is someone who can see us reaching our highest potential, even when we can’t.

If you are in need of someone to be there for you in this way, I recommend you go to WeightLossBuddy.com, where you can be matched up with a Weight Loss Buddy, at no charge. When looking for your Buddy, share this Blog entry with them to make sure that you are both in agreement about what you want to do for each other. I wish you the best of success and please let me know how it goes. I love to hear success stories about the buddy system because I know that it works.

Cherish the Moment

"Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, and today is a gift;
that's why they call it the present."
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962)