Favorite Inspirational Quotes

Winning is not a sometime thing; it’s an all the time thing.  You don’t win once in a while; you don’t do thing right once in a while; you do them right all the time.

Vince Lombardi

I think with this inspirational quote, I should start at the end and maybe rephrase it a bit.  You do the right things the right way all the time.  That’s the straight line to winning.

You can’t do only some of the things you need to win or to reach your goal.  You can’t do some of the things the wrong way and expect to win or reach the goal.  You must do things the right way all the time, not just some of the time, to reach your goal.

Simply think of it as applied to losing weight.  That seems to be a goal many, many people have.  If I want to lose weight and I believe from what I have learned that the right way is to lower the calories I take in, to change the kind of calories I take in and to do some interval training and bodyweight exercises, I have to do those things all the time.  I can’t get to my goal of losing weight if I then “forget” to exercise for a week or six.  I can’t reach my goal (not very quickly anyway) by having a dessert following a big meal at a restaurant every weekend.  By having dessert and that big meal and not exercising, I am not following a straight line to my desired goal.  I am veering all over the place.

I think this is where we get to winning not being a sometime thing.  Winning (and being a winner) is an attitude that does what needs to be done the right way all the time.  And that’s all the things, both little and big.  Because you never know which things are going to be the ones that matter a lot.

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