First, you’re going to have to stop using food for anything other than nutrition. You cannot continue to use food to celebrate, or as a companion, or for entertainment, or comfort. You cannot medicate yourself, your mood, or pain with food.
PHIL MCGRAWWe all have a social mask, right? We put it on, we go out, put our best foot forward, our best image. But behind that social mask is a personal truth, what we really, really believe about who we are and what we’re capable of.
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Can’t change what you don’t acknowledge.
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I didn’t just come in on a load of turnips!
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If emotional pain or problems have cropped up in your life, you must insist on getting closure. Closure means you don’t carry the problem or the pain. You address the issue, then you slam shut the book and put it away.
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People have the right to think and say whatever they want to. But you have the right not to take it to heart, and not to react.
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Drama and crisis are currency to them because they love the power to make people react. They thrive on a good fight, a good scandal, a good drama.
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Learn when’s a good time to shut up
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I’ve never eaten a taco, and I don’t plan to.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit
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We all have a social mask, right? We put it on, we go out, put our best foot forward, our best image. But behind that social mask is a personal truth, what we really, really believe about who we are and what we’re capable of.
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When you allow a person’s words to upset you, you’re giving away your power.
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Awareness without action is worthless.
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If you ever get started on the right path to change, there is one important precondition you have to meet. You must rid yourself of that gnawing and overpowering sense of urgency and panic that always seems to appear on the scene.
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Isn’t it amazing how easily you can cheat yourself out of the right choices by convincing yourself that you deserve the wrong ones? It’s highly illogical when you think about it. You deserve a better life, you deserve better health, and you deserve to lose weight.
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You must learn that you do not have to be angry just because you have the right to be.
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If you do different, you will have different. If you begin to require more of yourself, that in and of itself is different.
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