Shoutin’ from the Rooftop

Chris & I attended an awards dinner at Ball State’s Miller College of Business last Friday night. It was a very interesting experience. We had the privelage of attending last year also. This year we sat with some very important people. I sat next to the Dean of the College of Business. A former CEO of UPS was at our table along with one of the award recipients. It was nice to see several other friendly faces that I know from Weight Watchers. I think they were just as surprised to see me there as I was to see them.

Each award recipient had the chance to speak. One of the recipients mentioned the following quote which he believed was instrumental to his success.

Success is not the destination. Success is the journey.

As soon as I heard that quote, it was like a lightbulb went off in my head. I started digging in my purse for my pen. Of course I couldn’t find one but I didn’t want to forget this quote. One of the award recipient’s wife was sitting at our table. It must be a woman thing. She immediately handed me a pen so I could jot that quote down.

I think too many times we think of weight loss in terms of the destination. Losing the weight. We don’t think about the changes we are making along the journey. We don’t embrace the journey because we just want to get to the destination of losing the weight. We want to get to the final destination and be done with it. The thing that we forget is that we will be on this journey the rest of our lives.

We will always be on the road to living more healthy. Once we hit the goal weight we have been striving for, things don’t magically change and it is suddenly easy to keep the weight off. We have to extract that mentality from our way of thinking. That was one major mistake that I made. I didn’t realize that I would have to continue to work for the rest of my life. Of course there are periods of time where it is easier than others.

Success is just staying on the journey. We all encounter detours along the way. Success is starting the journey again after those detours. I am looking at my weight loss journey a lot differently now. I am working on enjoying the success I have achieved and look forward to the challenge of keeping the weight off.

Of course in the middle of the night when I was thinking of what I was going to write, I had a lot more thoughts in my head. Great thoughts. LOL.

OK. Enough for now. I hope that you get the point I was trying to make. Success is starting the journey and staying at it.

Tags: destination, journey, success

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