Tuesday, October 31, 2006

For some reason this came back to me today:

"It's not the stumbles in life that matter - it is the recovery that matters."

Lots of sayings and cliches in this vein - "Fall down 7 - get up 8" is an old chinese proverb if I am not mistaken.

But what I like about the reference to stumbles is that we all falter but not necessarily fall and we let it have the same effect. A bad meal, a missed workout, etc... and we write off our plan and set some other date to start again.

Well - if it is the recovery that matters and you have let a stumble become a fall - you need to work on your recovery!

The only moment we have to make a change is right now. Once a stumble has happened it is gone and you are in that critical recovery phase - will the stumble become a fall or will the recovery place you back on the path?
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3 comments:

Anonymous said...

This is such a timely reminder. I've been trying to clean up my eating, and just after lunch today I was tempted by the plate of brownies that one of my co-workers brought in.

Well, I gave in to the tempation and ate the brownie. And enjoyed it for about a nano-second, at which point I began deriding myself for lack of willpower, etc., etc.

However, by treating this as a stumble, I still have time to recover and finish the day with clean food only. Let's see if this works.

1:26 PM
Tommy Shook said...

Brett,

To stumble is human, to recover is superhuman! We'll all have our moments both good and bad. I agree though, it is only possible to go with the flow, and not let the little stumbles set us back but rather propel us forward.
Good insight man, thanks!

TS

6:16 PM
Brett Jones said...

Thanks - jb - let me know how the day turned out.

Thanks Tom.

6:31 AM

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