“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.”  ~ Aristotle

I’ve watched people sabotage their success over and over with this one. Someone’s fed up with an element of their life and decides to take action and change things for the better. They make real adjustments and start to become successful. As they progress, the pain which motivated them in the first place goes away. Then, they stop the actions which made their life better and resume their old habits. Surprise! The pain comes back and they beat the crap out of themselves for being such a loser. An example: your weight has gotten out of control. It affects your health and self-esteem. You do the work, make progress, get healthy, and lose the weight. Then ,begin to resume your old lifestyle and pack the pounds back on. 

We’ve all been there and can relate. If you’re serious about getting a life and keeping it, then it’s time to get your head in the game. If you’ve made changes to address the problem and are making progress, DON’T QUIT! It’s one thing to simply not know what to do when you have a problem. In fact, you may not even realize there’s a problem. The worst case is knowing you have a painful problem, having the solution, but simply being too lazy and undisciplined to solve it and keep it that way. If you’re searching for something to wreck your self-esteem, suck the joy out of your day, give you a life of regret and destroy any shot at getting (much less keeping) a life, this kind of self-destructive behavior will do it. You cannot be successful until you learn to avoid the path of least resistance and conquer the habit of quitting. 

To paraphrase author T. Harv Eker, When you’re willing to make your life hard, your life will become easy. When you choose to make your life easy, it will become hard.

Do the tough stuff, be persistent, and you’ll find yourself getting a life, and also keeping it!

“Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.”  

~ Napoleon Hill