Sunday Story…Over Night Success

We are also enamored of stories of people who become an “overnight success.” The rags to riches stories are pervasive in our world. We love to see people shift and change overnight. The people who are living on the street one day and a millionaire the next. The ones that go from being 200 pounds overweight to fitness model in 6 weeks. We love these stories…they give us hope that if we just find the magic pill, the secret workout regimen, or the book of double top secret skills we can turn on a dime and be all the things we know we can be.

I have good news and bad news for you. Rarely are these stories true. We don’t see the years of failures, the attempts that crashed and burned, the times that success wasn’t just elusive but impossible.

Real change takes time. Real change is incremental and often goes unnoticed by you, the one making the changes. But those changes are real and they are happening. You don’t always recognize the changes you are making. Change rarely comes in large leaps. It comes in small, hardly noticeable increments. So small that you will think nothing is happening. But all those little changes start adding up and one day you have lost the weight, written the book, and improved your fitness.

How did you do it? You started. You put down the bad food one bite at a time, you went to one class at a time, and you wrote one word at a time. Then you did it again, and again, and again. I don’t have to turn the wheel of my car ninety degrees to end up in a new destination. A one degree turn will send me on a completely new trajectory.

I have seen, in relatively short periods of time, people lose amazing amounts of weight without knowing it was gone until they needed to buy a new belt or new pants. I have seen fitness levels go from non-existent to very respectable in sixty days. All because someone didn’t quit. They started, they stayed the course and then one day when measuring day came they were surprised at what they had done. I wasn’t. I knew that if they just kept on track they would become the person they were bent on becoming.
You don’t have to be great to start BUT you have to start to be great. Start now, start today, start tomorrow but get started on getting where you want to go!

Let me help you on your journey!

Namaste

John Mariotti

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