Posted by Rachel Graves Jun 25 2010, 10:19 am in confidence, Expectations, goals, inspiration, Inspiration Sunday, optimism, progress, Rachel Graves, small changes
Among the many changes you’ll see in the next few weeks at Healthy Writer blog we’ve discontinued Inspiration Sundays. However, I hope you’ll agree that this simple quote still deserves a post:
Keep Moving Forward
I’m always inspired by Walt Disney and his words. A man who started with only a creative vision and a talent for drawing began an empire. Growing up near Walt Disney World, it was easy to see the awe inspiring buildings, theme parks, and man-made lakes, but sometimes hard to remember that it all on the same shaky ground as my own writing career.
You probably didn’t know it, but Walt struggled in his early years. He did any work he could including a series of Army education films that would be considered very politically incorrect these days. Like many writers and artists he suffered setbacks: the first studio he founded went bankrupt, he lost the rights to one of his creations (Oswald the Lucky Rabbit), and he couldn’t find a distributor for either of the first two Mickey Mouse films.
Through it all, Walt kept moving forward. He tried new things and refused to look backwards for too long. His philosophy is as useful to writers as it is to people who strive to be healthy. If you’ve missed a work out, eaten an unhealthy meal, skipped a deadline, or failed horribly on a pitch, don’t dwell on it, move forward, and do better next time. As we work hard to reach our goals it’s easy to get sidetracked by the things we should have done instead planning the things we’ll do next. Don’t. Instead, give yourself a little time to look backward, then get back to work. Who knows, maybe someday you’ll be a household name just like Walt.
(This is the first in a series of posts that focus on Walt Disney World, the location of the next Romance Writers of America Conference. I’m not just a rabid Disney fan, I’m also a former employee. I’ve had the honor and the thrill of working in the Disney Reservation Center where we booked all restaurant and hotel reservations. If you have any Disney questions, please post them in the comments.)
Posted by Tawny Weber May 30 2010, 7:40 am in Inspiration Sunday
Great minds have purposes, others have wishes. ~Washington Irving I love this quote. It makes me focus my energy on my purposes – on a healthy lifestyle and a writing career. Purpose is action, wishing is inaction. So if I focus on purpose, I’m actively working toward these things instead of just thinking about them
Posted by Tawny Weber May 23 2010, 8:30 am in Inspiration Sunday
Reality check: you can never, ever, use weight loss to solve problems that are not related to your weight. At your goal weight or not, you still have to live with yourself and deal with your problems. You will still have the same husband, the same job, the same kids, and the same life. Losing [...]
Posted by Tawny Weber May 16 2010, 9:36 am in Inspiration Sunday
‘Albert Einstein, who discovered that a tiny amount of mass is equal to a huge amount of energy, which explains why, as Einstein himself so eloquently put it in a famous 1939 speech to the Physics Department at Princeton, “You have to exercise for a week to work off the thigh fat from a single [...]
Posted by Tawny Weber May 9 2010, 9:33 pm in Inspiration Sunday
A diet is the penalty we pay for exceeding the feed limit. ~Author Unknown
Posted by Trish Milburn Apr 25 2010, 5:25 pm in goals, Inspiration Sunday
There is a quote by Henry Ford that I liked so much I wrote it on a slip of index card and put it on the corkboard above my desk. When I did it, I was thinking of it in terms of my writing. But when I looked up at it recently, I realized it [...]
Posted by Trish Milburn Apr 11 2010, 5:01 am in goals, Inspiration Sunday, Trish Milburn
Inspiration Sunday is a series at the Healthy Writer blog. Every Sunday, we post a quote, anecdote, fact or other item that will inspire you to keep moving forward on your journey to becoming and staying a healthy writer. “Every day do something that will inch you closer to a better tomorrow.” — Doug Firebaugh [...]
Posted by Trish Milburn Apr 4 2010, 5:01 am in Inspiration Sunday, Trish Milburn
Inspiration Sunday is a series at the Healthy Writer blog. Every Sunday, we post a quote, anecdote, fact or other item that will inspire you to keep moving forward on your journey to becoming and staying a healthy writer. “Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.” — Robert Collier [...]
Posted by Michelle Butler Mar 28 2010, 8:01 am in Inspiration Sunday, Michelle Butler
Inspiration Sunday is a series at the Healthy Writer blog. Every Sunday, we post a quote, anecdote, fact or other item that will inspire you to keep moving forward on your journey to becoming and staying a healthy writer. The Serenity Prayer God, grant me the serenityTo accept the things I cannot change;The courage to [...]
Posted by Michelle Butler Mar 21 2010, 8:01 am in Inspiration Sunday, Michelle Butler
Inspiration Sunday is a series at the Healthy Writer blog. Every Sunday, we post a quote, anecdote, fact or other item that will inspire you to keep moving forward on your journey to becoming and staying a healthy writer. “If you don’t go after what you want, you’ll never have it. If you don’t ask, [...]
