monday's mantra
i happened to notice a sign at the front of the yoga studio, one day practicing last week. it read:
*discipline is remembering what you want*
it was david campbell who stated this - the founder of saks fifth avenue. (suppose he should know, eh?)
its simply too easy, during our day to day activities, to forget what we really want. its too easy to let the routine take place of additional effort. and yet the outcome leaves us destined to settle for less, again and again.
forgetting what we want in business has a consequence is significant dollars and cents. yet status quo is often accepted in crazy quantities.
but worse yet, is forgetting what we want in our own lives. for it has an even greater repercussion - and its measured in happiness. it is our own joy we so willingly sacrifice.
there wasn't time . . . it slipped my mind . . . i'll get to it tomorrow.
bullshit. (and i say this with love.) we keep important dates on a calendar. and create to-do lists for our day. isn't it time we took the same fervent effort to remind ourselves of what it is in life, we really and truly want?
now that would take some discipline.
Posted by peg mulqueen at 9/28/2009 5:56 AM 
Categories: monday's mantra
Tags: goals remember what you want
Categories: monday's mantra
Tags: goals remember what you want
Peg, I love this: "yet status quo is often accepted in crazy quantities" !! Here's to being disciplined enough to refuse to accept the status quo for our lives.
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I love that quote, Peggy. They have that up at the yoga studio I often go to
I like the idea that discipline isn't about deprivation - really it's about living your values.
And yet I choose to sit on the couch instead of all of the other more interesting things I could be doing. WHY? I remember what I want...I think about the other things I could do...and I choose the couch.
There's more to it...there's a second sentence to that saying and I don't know yet what it is.
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