Setbacks or sabotage?

Setbacks, we all have them. The diet that plateaus. Writers block. Injuries and illness.

Well you can accept that occassionally these things happen to the best of us, and believe me - they do. You can either work through the problem you have to come out the otherside fitter and stronger or you can throw your hands up in the air and say "this isn't working". This is the time you usually find yourself trying to find the next thing to focus your attention on. And sooner rather than later you are back to where you were before - or worse still - further back from where you started - those diets where you lose a lot of weight - then after "eating normally" for a few months you've put back all the weight you lost and some more. Truth is - the only people who can really eat what they like are the ones who a) don't care b) have a great metabolism that allows them to burn off what they eat or c) training athletes and the latter still watch WHAT they eat.

You forgot you were supposed to be eating sensibly to lose some weight - the first sign of adversity has you running to whatever comfort food you eat.

And of course it doesn't have to be food related, but any goal that gets stuck every now and then.

You were going to clean the house
You were going to redecorate
You were going to re-do the garden
You were going to save a million dollars
You were going to get ahead with your school assignments

But other things got in the way. Now I am not saying that making a living or having a fun time with your friends isn't important - because they are. But it is time to be honest - are your projects stalled because of setbacks or are you sabotaging your efforts?


With many thoughts
Elle

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An additional thought for today: There are no more "secrets"
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I hate to be the one to break it to you - but I will - because it's important.

Listen very carefully to me:

There are no magic bullets
There are no magic pills that melt off fat while you sleep
If you create a single e-book and create a one page "Squeeze" website - you won't make a million dollars, let alone over night - and you'd be lucky if the spiders even bothered to index your site so you got any visitors to read the words of the one page website. I'll let YOU into a secret when it comes to website design, spiders and search engine optimisation - content and keywords are essential, and a single page website these "guru's" are still touting as THE way to make money is laughable. Except it's THEM that's laughing - all the way to the bank. Makes me wonder how they can sleep at night.

They're the ones making millions - telling you that if you sign up for THEIR program for only 5 monthly payments of $..... they will tell you their secret to making a fortune. Well guess what I just did - told you THEIR secret. There is no secret to wealth and you and everyone else knows it, but everyone else doesn't like to think that is the case. They want to beleive, so they keep buying. Sad really.

And now I have that out of my system I shall wish you a successful and action packed day.