Is It “One Day…” Or “Day One”
Let me start by saying this IS NOT an ad for PHD Weight Loss, although our association with them is the catalyst for what I’m about to say. So, if you’re rolling your eyes thinking that, don’t. No, this is about a change in life philosophy that I heard earlier this week and I feel like we subconsciously adopted last year, and I want to continue into this one. It’s very simple. Ask yourself this question, “For what I want in life, is today ‘One Day…’ or ‘Day One?'” And there is a big difference.
When you say, “One day I’d like to _______,” what you’re saying to yourself is “this would be really nice, but I don’t want it bad enough to have a plan and the discipline to stick to it until the goal is reached.”
When you say, “Today is Day one,” what you’re saying is, “This is what I’m going to do. I have a goal, a timeline, and a plan to achieve it.” The difference between the two boils down to desire and discipline. And you cannot be disciplined until your desire has reached a point that you cannot go one more step. For us, this came when we were doing our radio show in Jamaica last spring. We looked at pictures we took and without speaking to each other, both said internally, “What are we doing here? What have we done to ourselves?” Our involvement with PHD Weight Loss began the next week.
For each of us, a plan unfolded. For each of us, a timeline was set. For each of us, accountability became real. For each of us, losing weight and regaining control of our life went from “One day…” to “Day one.”
This is a timeline of our progress. Starting upper left, this is the aforementioned picture from Jamaica. I don’t even recognize these two people. Upper right, this was roughly two months later, July 4th weekend. Lower left is from when we did our radio show from Turks & Caicos in early September. And Lower right, is from our radiothon for the children’s hospital in early December. Between the two of us, you’re looking at a loss of more than 140 pounds. Physically we feel better than we have in years and psychologically I don’t think I can put into words the positive difference.
So, what’s next? I don’t know. Two things I know for sure. One, there WILL be something. A life without goals and a desired destination is a life of stagnation. And that’s not living at all. And two, whatever that goal will be, it will be attacked “Day one.” “One day…” just doesn’t cut it.
