Sometimes You have to be Your Own Cheerleader

I'm going to quote myself here, from my blog post from June 14, 2010.

"Rachel, you can do it. Keep pushing forward and you will make it to the top. All you need is drive, talent, smarts, and some sweat and will-power. You have all that so keep going and don't look back."

Wow... I really know how to be my own cheerleader! That is great! I want to keep re-reading this over and over again because I haven't been acting like I know this. I'm in procrastination mode. I'm in "stuck in a rut" mode. I'm in the - there aren't enough hours in the day to get everything done so I'm not going to do anything mode.

Hmmmmm, I don't think that goes very well with the above quote. There's no passion in that. There's wasting talent. There's being dumb. There's no sweat and god, certainly no will-power. And then there's regret...

I can't be like that person anymore. No.

Sometimes, no one else can say the thing that you need to pull yourself out of a dark hole. Sometimes you really have to be your own cheerleader because no one is holding you back but yourself.

So... "Rachel, you can do it. Keep pushing forward and you will make it to the top. All you need is drive, talent, smarts, and some sweat and will-power. You have all that so keep going and don't look back."

Repeat.
Repeat.
Repeat.*

*as long as you don't keep saying it so you procrastinate even longer :)