In Jillian Michaels' book, Master Your Metabolism, she talks about her Journey. Like all of us, she has a story, and a Journey, and like all of us, her Journey stops and starts, meanders and twists, and sometimes, she gets lost. As she puts it, "Have you ever made a choice in your life that seemed like a mild course correction but turned into a major detour? That's what happened to me, and it took me years to get back on track."
We all say the same thing, just in different ways, and this is one of those "The In Club" secrets I'm trying to help you all uncover. I call it Just One Step, Just Not Just Any Step. The First Step in your Journey. Jillian is a very down-to-earth person, and she said the exact same thing. Only she put it this way:
"A bad day for your ego is a great day for your soul."
It's taken out of context (she's speaking of being fired and blackballed all over town and having to take a job making 1/10th what she was making before, and being seriously humbled and mortified, and how it was the best thing to ever happen to her), but it should ring true for all of us. It's not the best days of our lives that cause us to look over where we are and make our lives better. It's those WORST days of our lives.
Go ahead, folks. Count your blessings. Just don't dismiss your curses. Those are just the blessings you haven't turned around yet! Get out there and have a really f*cking bad ego day. You'll be glad you did.
Don't Think. Just Go.
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