Skip to main content

Don't Let A Stumble Be The End Of Your Journey



I'm very hard on myself.  I am sure that many others are, also.  Sometimes, if we make a mistake, have a bad day, or don't make our goals for the day, or the week, we have the tendency to beat ourselves up.  I know that I do!  Sometimes we get the attitude "I've already messed this up, so I might as well just quit."  I admit, it's very discouraging to let yourself down.  It's discouraging to feel like you failed at something.  Being discouraged is no reason to quit!  We have to accept the fact that we haven't failed.  We are not failures.  We have only had a setback, a stumble.
 
However small, or large these setbacks may be, we are strong, and we are capable of bouncing back!  We are all going to have bad days, and those days may even turn into a week, or longer.  Those bad days are only stumbles in the road.  Think of how bad you will feel if you do just throw in the towel and give up.  Think about how good it will feel to pick yourself up, shake it off, and just keep moving forward.  The past is the past.  There is nothing we can do to change that.  We do have the power to determine how the present and the future will be.  We all have the strength to keep going, even when it's not an easy thing to do.  If you do decide to quit, you are only destined to begin the journey again, at a later date.  If you don't quit, think of how proud of yourself you will be, when you get to that finish line, and reach your goal!
 
Never let a stumble in the road be the end of your journey!
 
**If you like this post, please feel free to share it, or to share the link to the blog!  It is with your help that I may reach, and inspire others!  I welcome comments!  I welcome suggestions!  If you wish to contact me privately, email me at lisaspointofview@gmail.com .
Thank you for your support !


Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Why Do You Want Me To Fail?

What happens when your significant other doesn't support you in your journey?  What happens when their words and actions hurt?  What happens when you feel like your friends don't support you, and want you to fail?  Do you think about quitting because it is just easier than dealing with the hurt, and lack of support?    What is wrong with people?  Friends and significant others are supposed to love you and support you, so why don't they?  People in general, (not all people, but many) are mean, selfish, and belittling to others.  They want to bring others down, and they work hard at doing this.  It makes some people feel bigger to bring others down.  When you are in this situation, it is hard to see.  The problem is not you!  The problem is them!  Some people are just miserable in their own lives, and they try to reflect it on other people, when they should be taking a good look at themselves...
9 comments
Read more

Negative v. Postive Self-Talk and Self-Esteem

Before I get into stories, and my point of view on this topic, I have a confession.  I am a work-in-progress when it comes to this.  Knowing, and practicing, are two very different things.  It takes personal growth, and I believe that I am slowly, but surely getting there. I believe that the majority of people are unhappy with themselves, for one reason for another.  We may feel fat, ugly, incompetent, lazy, or have any other of a million different ways.  I believe that we all can relate to some, or many of these feelings. My story is that I did look at myself in the mirror, and I saw myself as fat, ugly, and sometimes, pretty much worthless.  Sometimes I saw a total failure in that mirror.  When I would talk to myself, and to others, I would call myself those things, but also referred to myself as a fat cow, a hippo, a moose, or a manatee (a sea cow).  How's that for hating yourself and being negative?  How this affected my self-est...
6 comments
Read more

I'm Just Not Feeling It Today

I'm just not feeling it today.  The alarm clock goes off, and you don't want to get up.  You force yourself to get out of bed, but you just want to crawl back in.  You see yourself in the mirror, bed-head and all, and you think to yourself that it just takes way too much effort to get in the shower, to get dressed, to brush your hair, etc.  You decide it all can wait.  You make your way to the couch, and turn on the TV.   In the back of your mind, you may be thinking that you need to get up and exercise.  Maybe you need to do laundry, or go to the store.  You quickly push those thoughts aside.  The next thing you know, you have binge-watched 5 hours of Netflix, maybe even mindlessly eating.  You are suffering from a serious lack of motivation. Have this ever been you?  I'm guilty.  I've had days like this where my fitness tracker didn't track over 500 steps for the whole da...
4 comments
Read more