Bill Phillip's | Transformation

Stop sniveling

Stuck in a rut? Feeling bad about your progress? Past hurts got you down? You know my advice now don't you?

If anyone understands sniveling it's me. I spent years in limbo because I used my past hurts and abuse to sit out life and all I wanted was for someone...anyone to feel sorry for me. I was mired in self-pity and laziness. Till one day I finally saw the sorry state of my life. I finally understood I was trying to make myself feel better about myself. Trouble was I was slowly killing myself. I was sniveling my life away, killing myself with a spoon knife ad a fork. I don't know how many times I cried and ate at the same time! AHHHHHH Ice cream and tears...Great combination for a whiner..

So what good does sniveling and blame do. Oh yea I had plenty of reasons why I needed to sit down and cry. It is after all a natural reaction to hurts and pain. But when it keeps you from reaching your potential it turns deadly. It steals your life, eats away your spirit and puts you in a deep deep fat hole. Cry for a time if you need it, like falling down and skinning your knee, yes it hurts. But now what if you were still sitting there crying about that skinned knee 2 weeks later? Kinda dumb huh?

I understand hurt and pain and abuse, I do know that some past abuse needs professional help to understand and work through. They key is working through it. The death sentence is to DO NOTHING BUT BLAME YOU PAST and stay caught in the sniveling trap.

Past hurts and abuse are fantastic tools to empower youself. I know that when I hear the little voices in my brain from the past that say i will not amount to anything, it makes me mad! It stirs me now! It gives me fuel to grab a heavier weight and to eat right. I now snivel very little. When I do its for a short time. It is NOT disabling. When I see myself playing the blame game and coddling myself with self-pity, I turn the tables and now use it to grow. It is fuel to propel myself past it all instead of a reason to lay down and quit. Oh I still do it. I just found that I do it just for a short time....Progress is a wondeful thing.

Defeat sniveling, stop the blame game. It only wastes time that you could be moving forward. When the race of life pushes you to the pavement and you skin your knees or break an arm, it IS NOT PERMANENT unless you make it permanent...Crying is NEVER disabling unless you give it the power to disable you. It can be a long and lingering process if you want that. Really, just face the fact..... how long you cry is up to you.

My advice? Do you even have to ask?