You can’t make a life-altering decision for someone else and expect it to stick.

It can be a real struggle to accept that sometimes appearance can be more important than talent or intelligence.

That isn’t about money, fame, or power. It’s about will, dedication, commitment, and knowing your self-worth. You can be poor as dirt and have those traits. Money can’t buy you values. You just need to know what is important to you and then feel secure in your pursuit to achieve that.

You have to accept the plan and realize that if you slip, and you might, you can’t use that as a reason to give up or stop.

Whenever I’d try to talk myself out of going for a walk, and there were a few days like that, I’d take myself through a series of simple tasks so I would get up and go. 1. Get up. 2. Find your house keys. 3. Put on some shoes. 4. Grab your iPod. 5. Walk out the front door.

When other people reject positive changes you make for yourself, there is always some nerve to get to the root of in those other people.

You cannot just work out and then eat poorly and expect to lose weight. It doesn’t work that way.