Continuing our look at the keys to fitness and weight loss motivation (our role model for this article is Jamie Foxx)
Keys to Fitness / Weight Loss Motivation #2: Have a support group
The same trainer who makes it easy for Jamie Foxx to exercise also gives him constant support. He’s a one man cheering squad. Trust me, having someone there who constantly motivates you and gives you encouragement makes a hell of a difference.
You might find that you have a friend or family member that you can team up with for mutual support. You can send each other texts, speak on the phone and talk when in person, giving constant motivation and encouragement. Or, if you’re looking to be your own support, find a list of quotes / inspiring music or anything else that inspire you. Make these inspiring objects readily available. Wake up with your ipod ready to play motivating music. Have post-it notes about the place with inspiring notes on them. Have pictures that mean a lot to you and make you feel good doted around the place. Make motivation readily available.
Keys to Fitness / Weight Loss Motivation #3 : Have Musts
Jamie Foxx’s fitness levels are directly related to his career. He has to be fit in order to look good in films and on magazine covers so he can be the star he is. He has a constant string of events for which he must be fit (cover shoot tomorrow: gotta be fit for that. Filming the day after, should be fit for that too. . . and so on). This helps him to keep up with his fitness because he has a whole list of future events that demand he be in shape.
Create a list of musts: events for which you are going to demand yourself to be fit. For instance, perhaps you will be going on vacation; decide that you will be fit on the vacation and make this one of your musts.
Motivation is as much about what you do when you’re not exercising as what you do when you are. Follow the three keys to Jamie Foxx-like motivation and you’ll turn yourself into the Duracell Bunny in no time. Sure, you might not end up starring in movies, but you’ll darned sure look the part of a star anyway.
Jamie Foxx might seem to have superhuman motivation in his new movie Django Unchained, but with a few minor changes, we can all achieve the same level of self motivation
To call Jamie Foxx motivated would be understatement of the century. Staying up late at night filming his next movie, Roland Emmerich’s action thriller White House Down (he plays the president), being filmed each and every day for magazine covers, fitting in push-ups and pull-ups whenever he can with his personal fitness trainer, promoting his current film Django Unchained . . .. Life as a star might be bloody fantastic, but it certainly isn’t easy.
Jamie Foxx turns 45 this month, yet he’s got more energy and motivation than I have at the comparatively ripe age of thirty. Perhaps that’s why Jamie Foxx has been all over Hollywood movies and on the covers of hundreds of glossy magazines.
My aim here isn’t to rant on and on about how brilliant Jamie Foxx is. The world’s got more than enough shameless ass kissers as it is. Rather, the point here is to realise why Jamie Foxx is as motivated as he is, how he maintains his motivation, and how you and I can reach and sustain a similar level of motivation.
So, how the heck is Jamie Foxx as motivated as he is, and how can you and I be equally motivated?
The Keys to Motivation: How to be as motivated as Jamie Foxx
Follow these keys to Jamie Foxx-like motivation and you’ll be as motivated as the Django Unchained star in no time.
Keys to Motivation #1 : Make it easy and accessible
Jamie Foxx is fortunate enough to have a personal fitness trainer who follows him around everywhere and sets up exercises which he can do anywhere. Thanks to his trainer, Foxx is able to do exercise practically any time he wants (including during photo shoots).
You probably don’t have a personal trainer following you around 24/7, but that doesn’t mean you can’t make exercisemore accessible.One of the easiest ways to make exercise more accessible is to decide that every move counts. If you find a spare ten seconds to drop down and do a push-up, it counts. You don’t need to take a whole hour to go to the gym to exercise. If you work at home and you find that you’re not thinking straight, go jog for ten minutes. You’ll get exercise and the change of activity will help you to think better when you return to work. Bottom line, make it easy to exercise whenever you can and build the mentality that every little counts.
Inspirational Running Quotes — Things Your Psychical Fitness Trainer Might Say: nothing makes you feel more alive than that agonizing burn in your legs
There’s a whole lot of sexiness going down in this Zumba Fitness Core trailer. Given that I need to start upping my exercise regime, I’m pretty tempted to get this! I’ll probably look like a blind dancing clown rather than the sexy girls and gals in this video though. . . oh well! Party your abs off!
I reckon I could easily knock about 20 hours of exercise out of this game. And it’ll probably be enough to get me back into the swing of exercising again, so what the HECK?! XD
Here are the very best inspirational fitnessquotes, from Maya Angelou, Mahatma Gandhi, Friedrich Nietzsch, Jim Rohn and others. Remember, you don’t need a personal trainer degree, weight loss surgery or a weight loss boot camp to have the body you want. All you need is the right inspiration and motivation Begin with these great inspirational fitnessquotes.
Inspirational Fitness Quotes
You want me to do something… tell me I can’t do it.
-Maya Angelou inspirational fitness quotes
You must begin to think of yourself as becoming the person you want to be.
– David Viscott
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
-Mahatma Gandhi
“Your body hears everything your mind says.”
– Naomi Judd,
The hardest thing about exercise is to start doing it. Once you are doing exercise regularly, the hardest thing is to stop it. – Erin Gray
“That which does not kill me makes me stronger” – Friedrich Nietzsche inspirational fitness quotes
Motivational and Inspirational Fitness Quotes COnt’d
Energy and persistence conquer all things.
-Benjamin Franklin inspirational fitness quotes
It’s never too late to become what you might have been.
-George Elliot inspirational fitness quotes
Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year.
– Franklin P. Adams
Those who do not find time for exercise will have to find time for illness.
– Earl of Derby
“The race goes not only to the swift nor the contest to the strong, but that’s the way to bet your money”
– Unknown
True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are united.
– Alexander von Humboldt
“Belief triggers the power to do”
-David Schwartz inspirational fitness quotes
Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live. –
Jim Rohn fitness inspirational quotes
Mental attitude is more important than mental capacity.
– Walter Dill Scott
Eighty percent of success is showing up.
– Woody Allen
“Pain is temporary, pride is forever”
– Unknown
Inspirational Fitness Quotes — Just DO IT. . . NOW!
Here are the absolute best self motivation quotes for weight loss. Copy and paste these quotes somewhere you can see them often for constant self motivation! Alternatively see the image gallery for these quotes HERE
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Self Motivation Quotes For Weight Loss
“The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.” ~William Faulkner weight loss quotes
“If you chase two rabbits, both will escape.” ~Unknown
“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.” ~Robert Louis Stevenson
“The last of the human freedoms is to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances.” ~Victor E. Frankl
“You can complain that roses have thorns, or rejoice that thorns have roses.” ~Ziggy
“It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.” ~William James weight loss quotes
“Whether you think you can or can’t, you’re right.” ~Henry Ford self motivation quotes for weight loss
“First thing every morning before you arise, say out loud, ‘I believe’, three times.” ~Norman Vincent Peale weight loss quotes for motivation
“In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life. It goes on.
“ ~Robert Frost
“Plans are nothing; planning is everything.
“ ~Dwight D. Eisenhower
“A good plan is like a road map: it shows the final destination and usually the best way to get there.
“ ~H. Stanley Judd
“It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.
“ ~Eleanor Roosevelt
“Proper preparation prevents poor performance.
“ ~Charlie Batch
“Perfectionism doesn’t make you feel perfect. It makes you feel inadequate.
“ ~Maria Shriver
“Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
“ ~Napolean Bonaparte
“Someday is not a day of the week.
“ ~Unknown
“Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week.
“ ~Spanish Proverb
“No amount of security is worth the suffering of a life chained to a routine that has killed your dreams.
“ ~Unknown
“We must be the change we wish to see in the world.
“ ~Mahatma Gandhi
“When you blame others, you give up your power to change.
“ ~Dr. Robert Anthony
“Quite often we change our jobs, friends and spouses instead of changing ourselves.
“ ~Akbarali H. Jetha
“You don’t drown by falling in the water. You drown by staying there.
“ ~Unknown
“You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself.
“ ~Jim Rohn
“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
“ ~Leo Tolstoy
“I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than closed by belief.
“ ~Gerry Spence
“Stumbling is not falling.
“ ~Portuguese Proverb
“As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.
“ ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
“If you find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn’t lead anywhere.
“ ~Unknown
“It’s not whether you get knocked down; it’s whether you get up.
“ ~Vince Lombardi
“Every day do something that will inch you closer to a better tomorrow.
“Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.
“ ~Mark Twain
“It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
“ ~James Thurber
“If doubt is challenging you and you do not act, doubts will grow. Challenge the doubts with action and you will grow. Doubt and action are incompatible.
“ ~John Kanary
“Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
“ ~George Herman
“Babe
“ Ruth
“It’s not who you think you are that holds you back; it’s who you think you’re not.
“ ~Unknown
“What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?
“ ~Dr. Robert Schuller self motivation quotes for weight loss
“Fears over tomorrow and regrets over yesterday are twin thieves that rob us of the moment.
“ ~Anonymous weight loss quotes
“If your dog is fat, you’re not getting enough exercise.
“ ~Unknown
“Another good reducing exercise consists in placing both hands against the table edge and pushing back.
“ ~Robert Quillen
“Whenever I feel like exercise, I lie down until the feeling passes.
“ ~Robert M. Hutchins
“I consider exercise vulgar. It makes people smell.
“ ~Alec Yuill Thornton
“I am pushing sixty. That is enough exercise for me.
“ ~Mark Twain
“Aerobics: a series of strenuous exercises which help convert fats, sugars, and starches into aches, pains, and cramps.
“ ~Unknown
“I bought a talking refrigerator that said
“Oink
“ every time I opened the door. It made me hungry for pork chops.
“ ~Marie Mott
“Obesity is really widespread.
“ ~Joseph O. Kern II
“If I can’t have too many truffles I’ll do without.
“ ~Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
“The only way to lose weight is to check it as airline baggage.
“ ~Peggy Ryan
Motivatonal Weight Loss Quotes
“Fat is not a moral problem. It’s an oral problem.
“ ~Jane Thomas Noland
“I’m in shape. Round is a shape… isn’t it?
“ ~Unknown
“A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand.
“ ~Unknown
“I’ve been on a constant diet for the last two decades. I’ve lost a total of 789 pounds. By all accounts, I should be hanging from a charm bracelet.
“ ~Erma Bombeck
“My advice if you insist on slimming: Eat as much as you like – just don’t swallow it.
“ ~Harry Secombe
“I’m not overweight. I’m just nine inches too short.
“ ~Shelley Winters
“Forget love… I’d rather fall in chocolate!
“ ~Unknown
“I have a great diet. You’re allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat people.
“ ~Ed Bluestone
“If hunger is not the problem, then eating is not the solution.
“ ~Unknown
“Bigger snacks mean bigger slacks.
“ ~Unknown
“If food is your best friend, it’s also your worst enemy.
“ ~Edward
“Grandpa
“ Jones
“Can it be a mistake that ‘STRESSED’ is ‘DESSERTS’ spelled backwards?
“ ~Unknown
“A moment on the lips, forever on the hips.
“ ~Unknown
“What you eat in private will show up in public.
“ ~Unknown
“Processed foods not only extend the shelf life, but they extend the waistline as well.
“ ~Karen Sessions
“Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.
“ ~Chinese Proverb
“It’s the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.
“ ~John Wooden
“Twenty years from now, you’ll be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do, than the ones you did.
“ ~Mark Twain
“The future is always beginning now.
“ ~Mark Strand
“You can’t have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
“ ~Charles Kettering
“Procrastination is the thief of time.
“ ~Edward Young
“You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.
“ ~Zig Ziglar
“Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
“ ~Michael Jordan
“A stumble may prevent a fall.
“ ~English Proverb
“It’s not the mistakes in life that are important; it’s what we learn from them.
“ ~Donna Guthrie
“The significant problems we face cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them.
“ ~Albert Einstein
“If doubt is challenging you and you do not act, doubts will grow. Challenge the doubts with action and you will grow. Doubt and action are incompatible.
“ ~John Kanary
“Success is a staircase, not a doorway.
“ ~Dottie Walters
“Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.
“ ~Robert J Collier
“In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life. It goes on.
“ ~Robert Frost weight loss motivation quotes
“You don’t drown by falling in the water. You drown by staying there.
“ ~Unknown
“If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude. Don’t complain.
“ ~Maya Angelou weight loss quotes
“The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure.
“ ~Sven Goran Eriksson weight loss quotes
“Most people fail, not because of lack of desire, but, because of lack of commitment.
“ ~Vince Lombardi
“You must have long-range goals to keep you from being frustrated by short-range failures.
“ ~Charles C. Noble
“Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; courage to change the things I can; and wisdom to know the difference.
“ ~modified Serenity prayer
“Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
“ ~John Wooden
“You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.
“ ~Mike Murdock motivational weight loss quotes
“Quite often we change our jobs, friends and spouses instead of changing ourselves.
“ ~Akbarali H. Jetha weight loss motivation quotes
“People only see what they are prepared to see.
“ ~Ralph Waldo Emerson weight loss quotes
“If you focus on results, you will never change. If you focus on change, you will get results.
“ ~Jack Dixon weight loss quotes for motivation
“Progress is impossible without change and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
“ ~George Bernard Shaw
“Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
“ ~Albert Einstein
“If we’re growing, we’re always going to be out of our comfort zone.
“ ~John Maxwell
“You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself.
“ ~Jim Rohn
“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
“ ~Leo Tolstoy
Weight Loss Motivation Quotes
“Be bold. Be confident. Be alive. A gallery of possibilities awaits you when you make change your friend.
“ ~Bob Bone
“Never be afraid to do something new. Remember, amateurs built the ark; professionals built the titanic.
“ ~Anonymous
“If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.
“ ~Wayne Dyer
“The easier it is to do, the harder it is to change.
“ ~Eng’s Principle
“A man’s health can be judged by which he takes two at a time – pills or stairs.
“ ~Joan Welsh
“Living a healthy lifestyle will only deprive you of poor health, lethargy, and fat.
“ ~Jill Johnson
“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I… I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
“ ~Robert Frost
“Choice, not chance, determines destiny.
“ ~E.C. McKenzie
“Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work.
“ ~H. L. Hunt
“It’s in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.
“ ~Anthony Robbins
“Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
“ ~Napolean Bonaparte
“Most people fail, not because of lack of desire, but, because of lack of commitment.
“ ~Vince Lombardi
“There are only two options regarding commitment; you’re either in or you’re out. There’s no such thing as life in-between.
“ ~Pat Riley
“Stay committed to your decisions; but stay flexible in your approach.
“ ~Tony Robbins
“You will never leave where you are, until you decide where you’d rather be.
“ ~Dexter Yager
“It’s not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.
“ ~Roy Disney
“Decide upon your major definite purpose in life and then organize all your activities around it.
“ ~Brian Tracy
“Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.
“ ~Thomas Jefferson
“Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.
“ ~Stan Smith
“Courage is fear that has said its prayers.
“ ~Dorothy Bernard
“Courage is a resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.
“ ~Mark Twain
Weight Loss Motivational Quotes
“Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, ‘I will try again tomorrow’.
“ ~Mary Anne Radmacher
“A waist is a terrible thing to mind.
“ ~Tom Wilson
“I am not a glutton – I am an explorer of food.
“ ~Erma Bombeck
“Flabbergasted, adj. Appalled over how much weight you have gained. ~Unknown
“You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
“ ~Christopher Robin
“I don’t know the key to success but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
“ ~Bill Cosby weight loss quotes for motivation
“Everyone faces defeat. It may be a stepping-stone or a stumbling block, depending on the mental attitude with which it is faced.
“ ~Napoleon Hill self motivation quotes for weight loss
“Success is never certain. Failure is never final.
“ ~Robert Schuller self motivation quotes for weight loss
“No amount of security is worth the suffering of a life chained to a routine that has killed your dreams.
“ ~Unknown
“Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.
“ ~Ambrose Redmoon
“If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude. Don’t complain.
“ ~Maya Angelou
“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.
“ ~Nelson Mandela weight loss motivation quotes
“Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.
“ ~Raymond Lindquist
“You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.
“ ~Rosalynn Carter
“The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear.
“ ~William Jennings Bryan
“Confidence, like art, never comes from having all the answers; it comes from being open to all the questions.
“ ~Earl Gray Stevens
“I hated every minute of the training, but I said,
“Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.
“ ~Muhammad Ali motivational quotes for weight loss
“You have to have the bad days to appreciate the good ones.
“ ~Unknown
“The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
“ ~Alan Kay self motivation quotes for weight loss
“A goal without a plan is just a wish.
“ ~Larry Elder
“There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
“ ~Colin Powell
“Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now
“ ~Alan Lakein
“Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning
“ ~Winston Churchill
“Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week.
“ ~Spanish Proverb
“The future is always beginning now.
“ ~Mark Strand
“I am not discouraged because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
“ ~Alva Edison
“The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking places.
“ ~Unknown
“I’ve been on a constant diet for the last two decades. I’ve lost a total of 789 pounds. By all accounts, I should be hanging from a charm bracelet.
“ ~Erma Bombeck
“Failure is not fatal. Only failure to get back up is.
“ ~John C. Maxwell self motivation quotes for weight loss
“Don’t dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.
“ ~Denis Waitley weight loss quotes
“We must be the change we wish to see in the world.
“ ~Mahatma Gandhi
“You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.
“ ~Les Brown
“The key to change… is to let go of fear.
“ ~Rosanne Cash
“We are torn between a craving to know and the despair of having known.
“ ~Unknown
“Most people want to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch.
“ ~Robert Orben
“I tried every diet in the book. I tried some that weren’t in the book. I tried eating the book. It tasted better than most of the diets.
“ ~Dolly Parton
“If hunger is not the problem, then eating is not the solution.
“ ~Unknown
“Bigger snacks mean bigger slacks.
“ ~Unknown
“Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.
“ ~Robert J Collier weight loss quotes
“It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
“ ~William James
“I know the price of success: dedication, hard work and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.
“ ~Frank Lloyd Wright
“There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
“ ~Colin Powell
“Success is dependent upon the glands – sweat glands.
“ ~Zig Ziglar
“The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.
“ ~Vidal Sassoon
“The only thing that ever sat its way to success was a hen.
“ ~Sarah Brown
“The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure.
“ ~Sven Goran Eriksson
“You can’t do it all yourself. Don’t be afraid to rely on others to help you accomplish your goals.
“ ~Oprah Winfrey
“While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.
“ ~Ben Franklin
“You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.
“ ~Margaret Thatcher self motivation quotes for weight loss
“Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it empties today of its strength.
“ ~Unknown
“Probably nothing in the world arouses more false hopes than the first four hours of a diet.
“ ~Dan Bennett
“The biggest seller is cookbooks and the second is diet books – how not to eat what you’ve just learned how to cook.
“ ~Andy Rooney
“We can do anything we want as long as we stick to it long enough.
“ ~Helen Keller
“I’m on a 90-day wonder diet. Thus far, I’ve lost 45 days.
“ ~Author Unknown
“People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.
“ ~Lewis Cass
“The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure.
“ ~Sven Goran Eriksson motivational quotes for weight loss
“Don’t let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might as well put that passing time to the best possible use.
“ ~Earl Nightingale weight loss quotes
“Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
“ ~Ralph Marston
“Never be afraid to do something new. Remember, amateurs built the ark; professionals built the titanic.
“ ~Anonymous
“The key to change… is to let go of fear.
“ ~Rosanne Cash
“Act as if it were impossible to fail.
“ ~Dorothea Brande
“Believe while others are doubting.
“ ~William Arthur Ward
“Courage is simply the willingness to be afraid and act anyway.
“ ~Dr. Robert Anthony
“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.
“ ~Nelson Mandela
“The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear.
“ ~William Jennings Bryan
“Fears over tomorrow and regrets over yesterday are twin thieves that rob us of the moment.
“ ~Anonymous
“Progress is impossible without change and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
“ ~George Bernard Shaw
“If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.
“ ~Wayne Dyer
“Courage is simply the willingness to be afraid and act anyway.
“ ~Dr. Robert Anthony weight loss quotes
“You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present.
“ ~Jan Glidewell
“Courage is a resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.
“ ~Mark Twain
“Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.
“ ~Ambrose Redmoon
“The key to change… is to let go of fear.
“ ~Rosanne Cash
“Movement is a medicine for creating change in a person’s physical, emotional, and mental states.
“ ~Carol Welch
“My advice if you insist on slimming: Eat as much as you like – just don’t swallow it.
“ ~Harry Secombe
“The first thing you lose on a diet is your sense of humor.
“ ~Unknown
“The cardiologist’s diet: If it tastes good, spit it out.
“ ~Unknown
“Fitness – If it came in a bottle, everybody would have a great body.
“ ~Cher
“Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
“ ~Oliver Goldsmith self motivation quotes for weight loss
“Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.
“ ~Chinese Proverb
“Every day, in every way, I am getting better and better.
“ ~Emilie Coue
“You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.
“ ~Mike Murdock
“Those who think they have not time for bodily exercise will sooner or later have to find time for illness.
“ ~Edward Stanley
“It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.
“ ~Sir Edmund Hillary
“The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.
“ ~Stephen R. Covey
“It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.
“ ~Sir Edmund Hillary
“You don’t have to be perfect in order to be successful.
“ ~Anonymous
“If it weren’t for the fact that the TV set and the refrigerator are so far apart, some of us wouldn’t get any exercise at all.
“ ~Joey Adams
“Act as if it were impossible to fail.
“ ~Dorothea Brande
“If at first you don’t succeed, you are running about average.
“ ~M.H. Alderson
“Fall seven times, stand up eight.
“ ~Japanese Proverb
“There is no failure. Only feedback.
“ ~Unknown
“Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
“ ~George Washington
“The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.
“ ~Anonymous
“The only real failure in life is one not learned from.
“ ~Anthony J. D’Angelo
“Stumbling is not falling.
“ ~Portuguese Proverb
“I would rather attempt something great and fail than attempt to do nothing and succeed.
“ ~Robert Schuller
“You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.
“ ~Les Brown
“This one step – choosing a goal and sticking to it – changes everything.
“ ~Scott Reed
“Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
“ ~Ralph Marston
“Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.
“ ~Mark Twain
“Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.
“ ~Jim Rohn
“A habit is something you can do without thinking – which is why most of us have so many of them.
“ ~Frank A. Clark
None of us can change our yesterdays but all of us can change our tomorrows.
“ ~Colin Powell
“Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.
“ ~Henry David Thoreau
“Never limit your view of life by any past experience.
“ ~Ernest Holmes
“Habit is second nature, or rather, ten times nature.
“ ~William James
“Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Work, continuous work and hard work, is the only way to accomplish results that last.
“ ~Hamilton Holt
“The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.
“ ~Vidal Sassoon
“Searching for that big happy moment in life, how many special little moments will we let pass us by?
“ ~Anonymous
“A moment on the lips, forever on the hips.
“ ~Unknown
“What you eat in private will show up in public.
“ ~Unknown
“Don’t dig your grave with your own knife and fork.
“ ~English Proverb
“Our health always seems much more valuable after we lose it.
“ ~Unknown
“Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.
“ ~World Health Organization
“Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon.
“ ~Doug Larson
“Everyone has problems; some are just better at hiding them.
“ ~Unknown
“The leading cause of death among fashion models is falling through street grates.
“ ~Dave Barry
“Even if you fall on your face, you’re still moving forward.
“ ~Robert C. Gallagher
“Worry is as useless as a handle on a snowball.
“ ~Mitzi Chandler
“If it weren’t for the fact that the TV set and the refrigerator are so far apart, some of us wouldn’t get any exercise at all.
“ ~Joey Adams
“People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily.
“ ~Zig Ziglar
“Don’t eat anything your great-great grandmother wouldn’t recognize as food.
“ ~Michael Pollan
“At the end of every diet, the path curves back to the trough.
“ ~Mason Cooley
“I tried every diet in the book. I tried some that weren’t in the book. I tried eating the book. It tasted better than most of the diets.
“ ~Dolly Parton
“If you want to accomplish anything in life, you can’t just sit back and hope it will happen. You’ve got to make it happen.
“ ~Chuck Norris
“You must have long-range goals to keep you from being frustrated by short-range failures.
“ ~Charles C. Noble weight loss motivation quotes
“Probably nothing in the world arouses more false hopes than the first four hours of a diet.
“ ~Dan Bennett
“The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking places.
“ ~Unknown
“We are torn between a craving to know and the despair of having known.
“ ~Unknown
“Most people want to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch.
“ ~Robert Orben
“If you believe everything you read, you better not read.
“ ~Unknown
“It’s rough to go through life with your contents looking as if they settled during shipping.
“ ~Milton Berle
“The next best thing to winning is losing! At least you’ve been in the race.
“ ~Nellie Hershey Tullis
“First we form habits; then they form us. Conquer your bad habits or they will conquer you.
“ ~Robert Gilbert
“I am realistic – I expect miracles.
“ ~Wayne Dyer
“The older you get, the tougher it is to lose weight because by then, your body and your fat are really good friends.
“ ~Anonymous
“The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
“ ~Leslie Poles Hartley
“The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
“ ~Somerset Maugham
“Time is a circus, always packing up and moving away.
“ ~Ben Hecht
“I don’t jog. If I die I want to be sick.
“ ~Abe Lemons
“My doctor recently told me that jogging could add years to my life. I think he was right. I feel ten years older already.
“ ~Milton Berle
“A pedestrian is someone who thought there were a couple of gallons left in the tank.
“ ~Unknown
“A dog is one of the remaining reasons why some people can be persuaded to go for a walk.
“ ~O.A. Battista
“The Americans never walk. In winter too cold and in summer too hot.
“ ~J.B. Yeats
“I have to exercise in the morning before my brain figures out what I’m doing.
“ ~Marsha Doble
“Nothing tastes as good as feeling thin feels.
“ ~Unknown
“Don’t dig your grave with your own knife and fork.
“ ~English Proverb
“Don’t eat anything your great-great grandmother wouldn’t recognize as food.
“ ~Michael Pollan
“A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools.
“ ~Spanish Proverb
“Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food.
“ ~Hippocrates
“No matter who you are, no matter what you do, you absolutely, positively do have the power to change.
“ ~Bill Phillips
“Put all excuses aside and remember this: YOU are capable.
“ ~Zig Ziglar
“We can do anything we want as long as we stick to it long enough.
“ ~Helen Keller
“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
“ ~Theodore Roosevelt
“Look within!… The secret is inside you.
“ ~Hui-neng
“Act as if it were impossible to fail.
“ ~Dorothea Brande
“Use your imagination not to scare yourself to death, but to inspire yourself to life.
“ ~Adele Brookman
“Where you start is not as important as where you finish.
“ ~Zig Ziglar
“Act as if everything you do makes a difference. It does.
“ ~William James
“When we stop judging ourselves, we stop judging other people. When we start loving ourselves, we start loving other people.
“ ~Unknown
“Observe everything. Judge nothing.
“ ~David Colella
“When the only tool you own is a hammer, every problem begins to resemble a nail.
“ ~Abraham Maslow
“What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.
“ ~Plutarch
“If you’re coasting, you’re either losing momentum or else you’re headed downhill.
“ ~Joan Welsh
“You are the only problem you will ever have and you are the only solution.
“ ~Bob Proctor
“It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.
“ ~Lena Horne
“People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily.
“ ~Zig Ziglar
“Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
“ ~Stephen R. Covey
“Failure is not fatal. Only failure to get back up is.
“ ~John C. Maxwell
“Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.
“ ~H. Ross Perot
“When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.
“ ~Napoleon Hill
“In order to succeed, you must first be willing to fail.
“ ~Anonymous
“You don’t drown by falling in the water. You drown by staying there.
“ ~Unknown
“What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?
“ ~Dr. Robert Schuller
“You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.
“ ~Margaret Thatcher
“If you chase two rabbits, both will escape.
“ ~Unknown
“It’s not the load that breaks you down; it’s the way you carry it.
“ ~Lena Horne
“A goal without a plan is just a wish.
“ ~Larry Elder weight loss quotes for motivation
“If what you are doing is not moving you towards your goals, then it’s moving you away from your goals.
“ ~Brian Tracy
“People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine.
“ ~Brian Tracy
“Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.
“ ~Jim Rohn
“In order to change we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.
“ ~Unknown
“The past is history. The future, a mystery. The here and now is a gift. That is why it’s called the present.
“ ~Unknown
“Let go of what’s gone.
“ ~Jules
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“The past is behind, learn from it. The future is ahead, prepare for it. The present is here, live it.
“ ~Thomas S. Monson
“It’s never too late—in fiction or in life—to revise.
“ ~Nancy Thayer
“Don’t dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.
“ ~Denis Waitley
“It is not only what we do, but what we do not do, that we are held responsible.
“ ~Moliere
“The greatest lie you can make is to lie to yourself.
“ ~Matt Zotti
“If I am not good to myself, how can I expect anyone else to be?
“ ~Maya Angelou
“There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
“ ~Dr. Denis Waitley
“If I’d known I was going to live this long, I’d have taken better care of myself.
“ ~Eubie Blake
“Learn to relax. Your body is precious, as it houses your mind and spirit. Inner peace begins with a relaxed body.
“ ~Norman Vincent Peale
“Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live.
“ ~Jim Rohn
“Every human being is the author of his own health or disease.
“ ~Buddha
“You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
“ ~Christopher Robin
“To succeed you must first improve, to improve you must first practice, to practice you must first learn, to learn you must first fail.
“ ~Wesley Woo
“Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
“ ~Oliver Goldsmith
“If at first you don’t succeed, you are running about average.
Looking for some good running motivational quotes to give you the right mentality for your run? These are the running motivational quotes that inspire me the most. I hope you like them! So, get your fancy running shoes on, jump on your running treadmill and prepare to be motivate with these, the best quotes for running motivation.
Good Running motivational quotes
“Keep varying the program. Your body will tell you what to do.”
- Joan Benoit Samuelson
“Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.”
-William Faulkner
“Remember the feeling you get from a good run is far better than the feeling you get from sitting around wishing you were running.”
-Sarah Condor
“I had as many doubts as anyone else. Standing on the starting line, we’re all cowards.”
-Alberto Salazar, three-time winner of the NYC marathon
“Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss it you will land among the stars.”
-Les Brown
What matters is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight – it’s the size of the fight in the dog.
Dwight D. Eisenhower”Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.”
-Joshua J. Marine
There are clubs you can’t belong to, neighborhoods you can’t live in, schools you can’t get into, but the roads are always open.
Nike
Just do it!
Nike
“The difference between a jogger and a runner is an entry blank.”
-George Sheehan
“When it’s pouring rain and you’re bowling along through the wet, there’s satisfaction in knowing you’re out there and the others aren’t.”
-Peter Snell
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Stephen Covey
There is no such thing as bad weather, just soft people.
Bill Bowerman
But if you never try you’ll never know,
Coldplay – Fix You
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character. Albert Einstein
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. Winston Churchill
The long run is what puts the tiger in the cat.
Bill Squires
Running is a lot like life. Only 10 percent of it is exciting. 90 percent of it is slog and drudge.
Dave Bedford, English distance runner
When in doubt, when in fear, be aggressive. Commit yourself and never look back.
Unknown
Everyone is an athlete. The only difference is that some of us are in training, and some are not.
Dr. George Sheehan
I tell our runners to divide the race into thirds. Run the first part with your head, the middle part with your personality, and the last part with your heart.
Mike Fanelli, club coach
Run hard, be strong, think big!
Percy Cerutty
Why should I practice running slow? I already know how to run slow. I want to learn to run fast.
Emil Zatopek
Running motivational Quotes
“More powerful than the will to win is the courage to begin.”
-Unknown Author
At times we all need a little motivation to put in our best training sessions. What better way to get motivated than with these, the greatest fitness motivation quotes ever. These fitness motivation quotes includes quotes from Michael Jordan, Nike, Maya Angelou, Mahatma Gandhi and many of the top motivators through history. Read through these fitness motivation quotes, then go put your best session ever in.
Fitness Motivation Quotes
Strive for progress, not perfection. -Unknown
You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take. -Wayne Gretzky
If you don’t make mistakes, you aren’t really trying. -Unknown
I’d rather be a failure at something I enjoy than a success at something I hate. -George Burns
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will. -Mahatma Gandhi
You live longer once you realize that any time spent being unhappy is wasted. -Ruth E. Renkl
Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity. -Oprah Winfrey
The difference between a goal and a dream is a deadline. -Steve Smith
You want me to do something… tell me I can’t do it. -Maya Angelou
Motivation will almost always beat mere talent. -Norman R. Augustine
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. -Albert Einstein
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“Why am I so emotional?” I used to ask myself that question all the time. I was trying to figure out how to stop being so emotional when I came across a very effective way how t stop being so emotional.
You might be surprised to hear that the tool I discovered for how to stop being so emotional came from method acting.
Why Am I So Emotional?
Before we discuss how to stop being so emotional, let me tell you my own answer to what I was so emotional myself. Because believe me, I used to beg myself all the time, “Why am I so emotional? Why am I so emotional? Why, Why WHY am I so emotional. . . ?!”
I was always extremely emotional because I had, for many many years, lived in a rather turmoil and explosive environment. There was a lot of arguing in my home when i was younger and lot of emotion. Because of this, I essentially became conditioned to think that any minor issue would lead to a full blown argument and a lot of emotional pain. That mindset made me incredibly sensitive to anything negative and in turn made me very emotionally sensitive. But that was before I learned how to stop being so emotional.
How to stop being so emotional through method acting.
Acting is one subject I discuss a lot here on Arolemodel.com (not surprising, given that I’m an actor. . .). And I like to think I discuss acting in an innovative manner.
You see, acting is more than getting on a stage and speaking lines. Genuine acting is about learning to live as a fictional character, about literally thinking and feeling what a fictional character would think and feel. And if acting can enable us to bring to life a character that doesn’t even exist. . .well, surely then it can help us to become the person we really want to be too, and if that’s the case, then acting is naturally very closely related to self development and self improvement.
Acting Reveals how to stop being so emotional
There are a million self improvement tips to be learnt from acting, yet one seems to stand out above the rest. That tip, or law, or life-changing truth, is that emotions precede thoughts.
Thoughts, essentially, are a by-product of emotion. If you feel positive, you’ll think positively. If you feel negative, you’ll think negatively. What’s more, through method acting you can learn to make yourself feel however you want to feel.
When you put those two facts together, you realise that method acting can make you feel how you choose to feel, and by creating your feelings you can create the way you think. (You don’t need to be a pro-actor to make use of this by the way. In a moment I’ll reveal how even someone with absolutely zero acting experience can immediately begin to make use of this information. ).
Even with no acting experience, acting is still the best way how to stop being so emotional.
For me, this revelation was a huge breakthrough. I used to think my personality was shaped by the way I thought. Before I began acting I was awfully shy, and a large part of the reason for my shyness was because I’d experience a thought like, “I can’t talk in public” and would take it for granted. Oh, okay, my self-talk would go, I best just stay quiet then.
But then the lightning bolt: My thoughts are just a by-product of my emotions. My thoughts weren’t the problem. The way I was feeling was the problem. I needed to find some way of feeling positive, because feeling positive would make me think I could speak to whoever I wanted to speak to, and then I’d be able to do it, to overcome my shyness. So, how could I control my emotions?
I learned how to stop being so emotional by facing a fear. . .
Ironically, the answer came from my biggest fear: being on stage. Actors, it seemed, were the most talented people in the world at controlling their emotions. If I could learn how an actor controlled their emotions then I could learn to change how I was feeling, and that in turn would change what I was thinking, and with positive thinking and positive feeling I’d be certain to be able to talk to anyone I wanted.
This is the tool I want to give to you now. You might wish to use it, as I did, to overcome shyness, or for any other goal you have in life. Really, the possibilities are endless. I mean just imagine it: complete control of your thoughts and emotions. Sounds good? Cool; here’s how to do it and how to stop being so emotional.
This self development exercise is probably the number one tool used by all method actors as well. . . just in case you suddenly feel inspired to go to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art or something. . .
How to Control Your Emotions through Emotional Memory
I bet you never thought you’d be an actor. After these simple steps you’ll be able to tell your friends you’ve been trained in the same art as Robert Downey Jr. and company. HURRAH! On with the show. ..
To perform this exercise you will first need to decide how you want to feel and also have a memory of a time when you felt that sensation powerfully as well as an objective / goal. Here’s an example from my own life.
I want to feel: motivated
I have in my mind a time of extreme motivation: Running around the track here at home training for the London Marathon.
My goal: To feel energetic and positive in the gym on my weight loss regime.
This is all we need to begin.
The Exercise For How to Stop being so emotional
Close your eyes and bring the memory to mind (so for me I remember my time of extreme motivation running around the track).
Notice if any elements of the memory stand out more than others. For me and my running memory, I remember distinctly the feeling of my running shoes, the yellow fields in the background and the heat of the sun on my wrists.
Zoom in on these elements: Focus closely on the parts of the memory which stand out. So for me, I focus-in on the feeling of the shoes. I’ll focus on this for a few moments before moving onto the next important part of the memory—the fields in the background—and then the next after that—the heat on my wrists.
Notice the emotion this causes: When you focus on each part of the memory, you should feel a big change in your emotions. Go through each part of the memory one by one and ask: Is this creating the sensation I want? If it is, great. If one of the elements creates an unwanted sensation, then forget that element and find another part of the memory that seems important.
You should end up with three parts of one memory, all of which make you feel how you want to feel. For me, I have the yellow fields, the feeling of running shoes, and finally the warmth on my wrists. These memories make me feel very motivated.
Finally, state your objective to yourself in the first person: I am in the gym running on the treadmill, feeling positive and energised in my weight loss regime.
Next time you want to feel the same way, simply bring the same memories to mind. Simple!
BINGO! You’ll now notice that your emotions have changed. You’re feeling how you want to feel. What’s more, your new, positive feeling is making you think positively. And feeling and thinking positively, you’ll realise that right now you are about to do the thing you wanted to do and you’re about to succeed in it having learned how to control your emotions.
I’d carry on, but I’m on my way to the gym now I’m feeling so darn motivated. If you liked this article, I’d love you to subscribe to Arolemodel (the forms on the top right of the page) and / or share this page on facebook or twitter. Thanks a lot!
Yet another amazing running motivation video rolling in today. This one comes from Spumoninick over at DailyMotion. The kicking beat, along with the high quality footage of some awesome runners makes you want to get up and go for a run right now (almost making it a shame i just got back from my run for today. . . anyway).
World’s Oldest Yoga Teacher is an Inspiration for us All
93 year old Tao Porchon-Lynch is the world’s oldest Yoga teacher. More than that, however, she is an inspiration for us all, reminding us that limitations are only in our minds. Yes, we truly can do anything we set our minds to. Want to lose weight? You can. Want to get fit? You can. Heck, you want to swim the English Channel…? You can. Impossible is nothing!
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To achieve your weight loss goals, you just need the right inspiration. Here’s how to get it.
1. Watch the video below, it’s very inspiring
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3. Save your own copy of the image and begin a collection of inspiring images you can look at often. Here on ARoleModel you’ll find tons of inspiration. Take any images you want and put them somewhere you will see them often so you can be inspired.
