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[elainegrey]

What???

Do you have a winning attitude? A winning attitude is the key to overcoming your doubts, struggles and weaknesses. Winning is not a sometime thing. You don't turn it on and off at a whim. Winning is an all-the-time attitude. You don't win yourself over every once in a while and expect to achieve your more difficult goals, such as weight loss or good mental health.

I think the answer to the first question is, "No."

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[firecat]

Those are pretty much the only words I can come up with too.

[amaebi]

Mottos like these are made by people who are pretty happy, and fail to understand that the material foundations of their happiness depend on a lot of other people, live and dead, and those people's actions.

[elainegrey]

Or by people doing corporate health coaching who fail to understand the level of variation in human physiology and metabolism.

[amaebi]

Have you read Barbara Ehrenreich's Brightsiding?

[elainegrey]

I've read summaries & reviews and my recollection is that i thought she was making good sense.

[arlie]

Have you been reading some wanna-be sports coach? This sounds like the kind of rhetoric I see posted in sales and marketing departments; it's bogus, but it apparently motivates a certain type of person.

[elainegrey]

The Whale's Employee Wellness site.

Which -- yeah, wanna-be sports coach is about right.

Honestly, i couldn't parse, "You don't win yourself over every once in a while and expect to achieve your more difficult goals." Not only bogus but incoherent.