What question do I want my tagline to answer?

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EDITED TO SAY: These are the links I mention: Mission Statement Making & Personal Catchphrase Creating.

And there is a little cool somethin’ somethin’ to win here today.

But our emphasis? on introspection. on pausing & pondering for the sake of living authentically.  and not for a treat no matter how smallbutcool Miz thinks it is.

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  1. The tagline on my blog is borrowed from John Bingham – ““The miracle isn’t that I finished. The miracle is that I had the courage to start.”

    This is really about my weight loss / fitness / running journey, more than my entire life, but is, oh so fitting for my last few years.

    Now, a tagline for my life – that’s a bit more challenging.

  2. i think one of my personal taglines is “onward and awkward.” i think it’s important to be persistent in things but sometimes they get awkward/difficult/whatever but that is okay. heh. 🙂

    it’s not really how i lead my life. i’m not sure what my life tagline style. i agree w/ajh that that is hard.

  3. Thank you for this post! I’ve been thinking about this on and off for months, and utterly failing to come up with anything. I’ve had a few in the past… “your life has never been short on drama”… and “it’ll work out.” But I think these taglines represent a time in my life that I’m sort of PAST. So where am I going now? My ideal end result would be one of relaxed moderation. I think I’ve learned how to be healthy in body, now I’m trying to be healthy in mind. Sanity. Turning this into a tagline is easier said than done! But I’m going to work on it. Thanks for motivating me!

  4. Honestly? “Because fitness shouldn’t be complicated” is pretty darn near my personal mission statement.

    Eating right and exercising used to be as natural as sleeping and going to the bathroom (awkward…). Now, all four of those things are COMPLICATED and DIFFICULT because we like to pretend we’re not human.

    It ain’t true, folks.

    I feel like the second we became civilized ladies we screwed ourselves over. And, in my cavegirl defense, loin cloths are hot.

    So there, Civilized Ladies Who Lunch.

    I’m going to go climb a rock now for emphasis.

  5. Great post. Well, when I was growing up I never got the message that failure is a part of success. Which really has a lot to do with thinking that I have to do IT perfectly. My journey to becoming healthy has had a lot of failure, meaning I haven’t reached my final destination yet. Sometimes it’s hard to find the courage to keep going through all the trying (sounds better than failure) and false starts. So for me right now, my tagline would read something like: “Progress, not perfection!” Just to remind myself that I don’t have to do it perfectly and really I can’t because there is no such thing.

    I’ll have to think about it some more. I love what you said about making it something that you can live with for life. That’s what I’m struggling with right now. I want to find the lifestyle that I can live with. It may take me longer to get to my goal, but, I’ll be living my life while I’m doing it! That’s important!!

  6. GOOD MORNING and you all can NOT know how much I love getting up grabbing my coffee as Im no use before my coffee and seeing that YOUR COLLECTIVE MINDS are already going.

    seriously sets my day up RIGHT!

    It has been hard for me to, as I rambled, find a personal tagline.

    Im not sure if it is because it’s so PERSONAL in that with MizFit I know I can change on a whim (to paint with a broad brush) and that for ME it takes a lot of introspection.

    looking deep inside and seeing who I REALLY am and then stepping back and realizing who I really strive to be.

    and Natalia? I dont know how old you are but it took me about 30 years to get to the point where—IN ALL ASPECTS—Im living in a way I can and WANT to for the long haul.

    Miz.

  9. Thanks!

    Great idea! I don’t have a tagline yet either. I will be musing over this today… something about trying everything once, perhaps, and allowing room to grow and space for mistakes to happen… I’ll think on it!

  10. I need to think on this and come back but I wanted to say that THIS IS WHY I LOVE IT HERE MIZ.

    because your personal tag line might isnt about fitness!

    there is so much more to you than just exercise and to LIFE and you remind us/

    Ill be back later with my words and thought

  12. Good morning!

    Are there tiny mizfit cameras in my house? I was working on this over the weekend. There are so many different life situations–some mundane, some painful to the heart–and it’s not easy to find that one phrase that will work to center me and keep me focused.

    For now, I’m sticking with the line that I have written on my memo board at work: “Because it’s the right thing to do.” It’s all I have for now.

    But I may borrow that “onward and awkard” one from time to time. 🙂

    Have a marvelous Monday!

  14. Ooh, what a great thing to think about! Like Mama Zen, I think I need more coffee to make much headway.

    Will definitely be mulling this over…

    And I SO WISH the timing would work out for Chicago but I don’t think we’ll be that far by then on a cross-country trek. Sounds like a blast!!!

  15. I saw a bumper sticker recently that read: “Change is inevitable. Struggle is optional.”

    I saw a church sign that said: “Do not complain about what you permit.”

    I like both of these. I use them as personal mantras for myself.

    However

    My personal tagline:”If you don’t say (do) something, that means you agree with it.”

    I find that in my line of work and my personal life, this mantra is great. If you don’t speak up or take action when something bad is happening, you are just as accountable and it means you agree with it.

    The end
    FGF

  16. Hmmm, I hate having my brain picked so early. Even with coffee, Monday mornings my brain requires priming and popping the clutch on a downhill roll.

    Fat Don’t Wrinkle…

    Life makes wisdom lines…

    Experience makes wisdom lines…

    IDK – it’s in there somewhere. I’m not wrinkly yet, so…hmmm.

    It was a good weekend, once we got to Saturday. The rest NEVER HAPPENED.

    Make it a great day.

  17. Hmmm. I have one but I’m not sure I like it. But we overslept (daylight savings time) and I have had ONE sip of coffee, and I am stupidly dangerous before a full cup, so I will ponder and report back later.

  18. quickly peeking in as my Tornado was up @ 4a since she’s USUALLY up around 5-530a.

    Many thoughts for later but FDW?

    MAKE IT A GREAT DAY.

    Is that a form of your tag?
    I *so* associate that phrase with you now.

    Which all has me (me. not MizFit) mulling if mine is a version of:

    UNAPOLOGETICALLY HERSELF.

    I’m mulling with all ya’ll.

    After more coffee.

    Cooled with coffeecubes and sucked through a straw.

    Practicing what she preaches,

    Miz.

  19. Yowza. Boil it all down into a few words, eh? Let’s see, it will have to encapsulate, as you said, all my personalities – from loving g-ma to the b-word peri-menopausal woman I am, sometimes at the same time 🙂 What to use, what to use? I’ll think about this whilst lifting the barbell today with my orange rubber bracelet bouncing on my wrist.

  21. I too have been thinking of a new tag line….
    right now mine is “putting down the chips and getting fit.”

    great post…it gives me something to ponder.

  22. Im newish here and do not mean any disrespect but I dont understand the bracelet idea!

    although I do like the idea of a reminder to live healthy. is that it?

    Miz can you explain? I think I missed it when you did.

  24. Hey Miz! I think one of the most inspirational songs I’ve listened to in a long while is “Unwritten” by Natasha Beddingfield. I love the concept of the fact that we should live in the moment and realize that we’re not dealing with any type of pre-destination. So, “live your life with arms wide open, today is where your book begins, the rest is still unwritten.” Longer than twitter, but it’s a start!

  25. quick thought. KIKI? that’s my tornado’s song.
    I chose it for her before I ‘knew’ her and I pray that she takes it on as her own as she grows.

    precisely that line.

    little arm hairs standing UP at attention,

    Miz.

  27. ok brain working slower than my fingoons (as the TT calls em):

    leah? I totally live by that as well. IMO if you dont—then you dont live.

    and diana? Ill be back (please to read like AHHHNOLD. Arnold wearing an orange bracelet? who can say…)

    M.

  28. I love Tom! But if I make a salad out of all different heirloom tomatoes, is it not a fruit salad? Because Tomatoes Salad doesn’t roll nicely from the tongue. Still haven’t finished coffee #1, can you tell?

  29. my tagline……….which is an extension of the title is a process that I am still in…….

    Annette’s Awakening

    I’m learning to live in the present, make good choices, and take care of the body I have been given

    I am still learning every day. I want to say at the end of my life that each moment was worth it because I was in the present ………..even in the bad moments.

  30. This concept has been weighing on my mind for weeks now, so I guess it’s time to put pen to paper and start brainstorming–I’m a firm believer in writing things down.

    I keep leaning towards a piece of advice that a woman wiser than myself shared with me last winter when I was struggling to get through some sunless days (SAD-plagued) and difficult circumstances: “Create your own sunny day.” I can’t tell you how many times I’ve had to grasp at that statement to get through a rough day at work, an entire month without sunshine or even financially turbulent times. Empowering and challenging.

    More coffee. More thinking.

  31. Fitness (life/nutrition/car insurance/whatevs): “So easy a cave (wo)man could do it.” What?! Already taken?!

    Guess it will require more thought than that. I’ll get back to you. = )

  33. I whole heartedly agree.

    My tag line (even though it isnt on the blog- dont control the template, grrr) is Get Grounded, Stay Grounded, which is to try and encourage people to get a freakin’ grip. What works for one doesnt work for everyone, and no one can tell you exactly what you need in terms of fitness (or life, for that matter). For me, fitness is entirely different than it is for someone else. we all need to calm down, take a second, and think about WHY we are living a healthy lifestyle. I will never be and over exerciser, I will never be a wake up at dawn and run 15 miles person, and I will never let workouts, or food, make me feel guilty. Its all about keeping it in perspective.

    Kelly Turner
    http://www.groundedfitness.com

  34. MizFit! I have found your webpage. Can I just say that you look amazing! A perfect time for me to come up with a new tagline for my fresh start. I’ve been seeking myself in a lot of ways. My past seems to cloud who I am with emotional instability and inner turmoil. I want my future to be about health, comfort, and peace.

    “From yesterday I have come, and to tomorrow I will go, but for today I will be.”

    Thank you for your support!

  35. Eeeeek – so much thinking so early! 😉

    I would definitely say it’s something like, “Act as young as you feel,” or something to that effect. I have to say, I have the sense of humor/energy level of a 14 year old boy sometimes, but I feel like I’m able to laugh and enjoy so much more. Just because we get older doesn’t always mean we have to “grow up.” Right? Please?

  36. Okay, so my computer is whack today and I have no sound, BUT judging from the comments, you’re looking for a tagline? My blog’s is “Keeping a lid on the junk in the trunk,” but I’d modify that to say that fit bottoms come in all shapes and sizes.

    Oh, and “just do it,” always speaks to me, too! 🙂

  38. I think mine varies between “It’s okay: I’ll just be a warning for everyone else”, and “What would happen if…..?”

  39. for me it is entirely a process. and I was serious that Im not there yet and hope by the end of today to at least have 3 or 4 words which I would want integrated or represented in my tag.

    it’s far less daunting to do the blog tagline and the more I ponder it (this morning. thanks to all you) it ISNT that I know I can change it if I choose—-it is 100% that it is *arms length* from me.

    once I develop/decide upon my tagline it is a barometer upon which I will choose to measure my life on a daily basis.

    I really want it to answer the idea of WHAT QUESTION DO I WANT MY LIFE TO ANSWER.

    M.

  40. Wow. Great topic. Have to get my monday morning brain in gear. *crickets chirping* I do have a personal mantra – it’s by Khalil Gibran and rather lengthy. But something, some bit of prose, I created myself for myself? Okay, something just came to mind (like how you all get to follow along with my free association?) but I’m too embarrassed to share it here, lol! But it’s definitely the answer I want people to come up with when asked the question of me.

    Thanks MizFit!!

  41. Oh, Miz – the challenges you give us!

    Tagline for the Bag Lady?

    Live large, Love hard, Laugh loud.

    She’s working on changing that to:

    Live loud, Love hard, Laugh large.

    Hmmmm – perhaps more coffee is in order…..

  42. So much thinking on a Monday! But good thinking, as always. I like “Out with the jive, in with the love.” That was my saying for a while. Hmmm…I’ll have to think a little more!

  44. Wow. All deep at the early am hours. I will have to drink my coffee and take a few minutes to think about this one! I just strive to be happy/content (and not stress out, although I’ve been struggling with that lately), everything else is icing.

  45. “Hey, I’m still alive!”

    “Damn, I’m still alive!”

    These 2 pretty much cover everything, and you can swap them depending on your mood.

  46. I really like this quote a friend sent me last year and it is one that encapsulates my life right now –

    “Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes it is the voice at the end of the day saying: I will try again tomorrow”
    – Mary Ann Radmacher

    Thanks Miz for making me dig deep this Monday morning.

    For me, getting on the right path is the goal and having the courage to just keep trying to get it right

  47. My tagline came about a few weeks ago in a post. My tagline of late has been “Rebuilding Jill”. I felt like I had to tear down all of my preconceived notions of what weight loss and fitness were all about, and “rebuild” a better, healthier, fitter Jill.

    There are 3 phases of my reconstruction: Phase 1 being the weight loss, Phase 2 will be the toning and sculpting and Phase 3 will be LIVING THE LIFE that I have carved out for myself.

    Thanks Miz -I love this post today! =)

  48. ok. the Tornado hath been temporarily downgraded to a Tropical Storm so….

    Im newish here and do not mean any disrespect but I dont understand the bracelet idea!

    although I do like the idea of a reminder to live healthy. is that it?

    Miz can you explain? I think I missed it when you did.

    First? never any disrespect. In fact more than a few members of the Bumbling Band have commented on MANY posts that they disagree with me.

    I really like that.

    the posts are my .02 and a launching pad for DIALOGUE.

    ’nuff said.

    and the bracelet? (short version. more HERE) it’s a reminder to me that Im not in this alone (this being life. exercise? yes. but all of life which can, at time, feel like one big herculean task).

    that this MIZFIT is one of many MIZFITS.

    the bracelet? not a money maker. breakeven’er.

    the bracelet? SO MUCH BETTER DESCRIBED BY THIS BLOGGER.

    people have emailed me asking about tees and, besides the cost even if I dont make a cent, for me it is all about a touchstone.

    something I can wear daily (and contrary to popular belief (wink) those ARE different black tanks in the videos…I dont sport the same shirt day in & day out).

    hope that longassramble helped, Diana.

    M.

  49. If I had a fitness blog, I suppose the tagline might be: Move Yer Ass.

    For life in general…that’s trickier.

    Just yesterday hubby and I had a big discussion about his routines. The man claims they make his life easier, because he doesn’t have to think about them: getting ready for work, paying bills, etc.

    However, I think he tends to get tangled up by his routines, in the sense that if there’s any kind of intervention or deviation (i.e. an unexpected phone call or a plugged sink) it totally throws him off-balance and messes up his entire routine. His routines have reduced his capacity to adapt and think freely.

    Which is what I’m trying to condense into a single tagline. Here are my current candidates after five minutes of consideration:

    Live Consciously (nice, but kinda bland)

    Stagnation is Death (snarky and eye-catching)

    Keep Yourself Alive (a little nod to one of my favorite Queen songs)

  50. I don’t have a personal tagline… I have a lot of little mottos “every pound lost is a gain in the right direction” – one of my most used ones. But not a tagline which is like a question that I want my blog or life to answer…hummm, something to think about for sure…

    Had Oatmeal Squares for breakfast!!!

  52. Right now, my tagline would be something like “Prone to distraction” but that’s not really how I want my life to be remembered!

    I need to put more thought into how I want to shape my life, and what I want to contribute to those around me. Unfortunately, I have yet to imbibe enough coffee for such deeply philosophical thoughts.

  53. I have several taglines/mottos I use. I use “Fixing Myself Thinner” because I really do believe to lose the weight and keep it off I have to fix all of myself, my mind as well as my body. It’s been a joint process through therapy, better eating and exercise.

    I also use “I can do it! I will do it! Consider it done!” this one really makes me feel empowered. I’ve come to realize that I have a strong body and always have. When an overweight person thinks of themselves they don’t realize how strong they are. They think they have these big bulky bodies that can barely move. But if you really think about it just think how strong those bodies must be from caring around all that weight. If I try to lift up even 50 lbs now I’m like “man that’s tough” and to think I was once carting around almost 3 times that much. It made me realize I am darn strong and I can do anything I put my mind too.

    I also stole “Onward and Downward’ from someone because I really do want to keep moving forward and see the scale keep moving downward.

  55. I’d like to think that our taglines can change as we move through life. In high school and my 20s, I’d have to say my “unofficial” tagline was: “This is not my life; it is merely a black comedy.” It got me through unrequited long-distance love, high-school awkwardness, junkie boyfriends, a dot-com employer going under, familial disownment, bankruptcy, and so on, and so on. That being said . . . it was also a humorous version of denial and not a truly positive statement about who I am or want to be or what I care about. I’m currently In Search Of a new tagline!

  56. What a great idea and discussion…. my blog tagline is “In Search of Me” well because I am in search of me.. a thinner me, a healthier me, a better me, a happier me. I suppose it represents that I am ever changing and hopefully for the better. So I guess that could work for a personal tag line too. Will think some more on it though – most definitely!

    Oh and Miz, thanks for checking in on me yet again.. I’m doing ok. Getting my ass back in gear slowly and hope to post later 🙂

  57. I don’t think this is original, but don’t remember where I first saw it. Mine is “Let your life speak.”

  58. DAMN you guys are good.
    and so early too.

    Liz?

    I’d like to think that our taglines can change as we move through life.

    I 100% agree up until now. until the age I am now. although as I type this Im thinking that I take that back…that the tag I have NOW may last until the Tornado is out of the house and THEN I’ll be reevaluating and reassessing as I imagine the question Ill want my life to answer will be entire different then.

    duly noted.

    M.

  59. Your em*phas*is is on the wrong syl*lab*le. Movie?

    Sorry…I always think of that line when I see the word emphasis.

    My blog tagline is one I believe for my kids…don’t know if it is a tagline for my whole life because I like to think there is more than just my kids. I’m rambling.

  60. Michelle? I think I love you.

    A VIEW FROM THE TOP.

    you peaked too soon. youre what we call a (dramatic pause) peaked too sooner.

    Miz., who begs you not to judge if that’s wrong as it’s from memory

  61. It’s interesting to read all these ideas for life mottos and tag lines.

    I’ve always liked:

    “If not now, when?” which is part of a longer quote by Hillel: “If I am not for myself, who will be for me? And when I am for myself, what am ‘I’? And if not now, when?”

    I also like:

    “Now is the time.” It’s one of the repeated phrases from Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech.

    I have to say, MizFit, that until your suggestion earlier today on my site, I would not have thought of having a tagline: I don’t eat from anyone’s candy dish.” But now that you’ve put that thought in my head. . . it does have multiple levels of meaning about my confidence to be my own person and bask in my own uniqueness, no?

    I’m going to keep thinking on that one!

    (Thanks for the link to my post about the bracelet. . . I’ll come back to let you know when it arrives. . . Still hanging out by the mailbox right now!)

  62. First off, I love the idea of a weekly video from you. I just get so obsessed with your arms – they’re so muscular. I love em!

    Secondly, a tag line? Hmmm, that’s going to take a lot of work from me.

  63. Reading through everyone’s thoughts…

    I’m working on: Love Yourself First

    (and the rest will take care of itself).

    It’s harder than it sounds.

    But I’m thinking it should be:

    Live Care-fully

    (live with care.. both caring for others and myself, and with attention that prevents accidents) And live FULLY. Then do them both at once!

  65. Oh no! My tagline on my website is HOME OF THE BACON WEDNESDAYS. What does this say about me? I swear, I haven’t had a piece of bacon for weeks. Even yesterday when people were serving it a brunch!

    This is a great mental exercise. Glad to know you are exercising our bodies and minds. Will be thinking about what my personal tagline is.

    Giyen

  66. Not sure if I have one. But there’s this line in a song on the new cd my brother-in-law made me:

    “Life is short, but you’re made to flower.”

    It’s certainly the philosophy I believe in and strive to live (is that what a tagline is?).

    It’s awfully hard to flower when you were up all night with a toddler who couldn’t stop coughing and now have to flounder through a mountain of paperwork for which you have noone to blame but yourself. With a headache.

  67. I love this idea…but it’s the sort of thing that will take me days, weeks even before coming up with something satisfactory. I have no original ideas at the moment (and that’s not a good tagline:)).

    Words that have been resounding with me lately are: resilience, boundaries, and tenacious. It’s really bugging me that they’re not parallel verb forms, but those are the words.

  68. What a great question Miz. I will ponder this and get back to you.

    Thank you for always inspiring me to “think” more.

    xoxo
    Shosh

  69. Ann? now you have me LONGING for your tagline to be:

    I HAVE NO ORIGINAL IDEAS AT THE MOMENT.

    comedy gold.

    Miz.

  70. I have been pondering this all morning (boot camp. walking to work. drinking tea at work. ignoring customers at work- oops), and have found lengthy tomes worth of answers.

    And am trying to boil it all down to what it all really essentially means.

    Am thinking:

    – enjoy life
    – give it your all
    – never pass up an adventure
    – don’t leave room for regrets
    – be aware that you won’t be able to understand EVERYTHING- but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t still strive to do so.

    Hm. That’s 5 points in a nutshell. My nutshell is still rather too large, methinks…

  71. When I ran my first marathon, some joker leaned out of his window and yelled something like “the race is over, he just crossed the finish line.” That really bummed me out because I was just making it to the halfway point of the race.

    While preparing for my second marathon, I remembered what that guy said and reminded myself that I had to run the same 26.2 miles as the guy who won and thus was born “Not As Fast, But Just As Far”

    Those words have come to mean more to me than just finishing a race. When I was still renting and my friends were buying; when I was single and they were all married…when I feel like it’s taking me a mighty long time to reach a goal — Not As Fast, But Just As Far!!

  72. most of the time my tag line would be “they may not be good ideas, but they’re mine”
    lately on my way to the gym / as i head out on my afternoon run “you are what you repeatedly do” runs through my head on a kind of loop. its so true, occasionally inspiring (i must be a runner!) and occasionally perplexing (i must be made of chocolate at this point!)

  73. A question my life will answer?

    SO HARD.

    But thank you for writing this Miz in one of the first few comments:

    “I dont know how old you are but it took me about 30 years to get to the point where—IN ALL ASPECTS—Im living in a way I can and WANT to for the long haul.”

    For now I may have to slap up the “work in progress” sign and focus on not adding to the Wheelbarrow (ok, honestly, more like a garbage truck or u-haul) of Regrets. And:

    “How can I become someone I admire?”

  74. Oh, I really like some of people’s tag lines!

    Since I created my blog to be a reflection of me personally, and not necessarily specifically focused on one thing (though it has evolved to be focused on one thing, LOL), my blog tagline IS my personal tagline:

    “Leaving behind old perceptions and energetic investments.”

    Because old stuff always needs to be replaced, we always need to be moving forward, and the places and perceptions that I invested my energy into yesterday might not be the places and/or perceptions I want to invest my energy into today.

  75. As someone before me this morning wrote, I LOVE your blog, Miz for MANY reasons. But encouraging me to really ponder issues, ideas, etc. is one of the main reasons. I’m going to have to give serious thought to my personal tagline (I’m so not creative), but for now, I’ll steal Nike’s … Just Do It (they’ve done a good job with it, so maybe it will work for me, too). Quit worrying, thinking, making excuses … that actually applies to all areas of my life.

  76. wow a tagline for my life…hmmmm…well…I guess this would be something I have thought about but have never thought about putting on my blog…I would have to be this.

    Life is for living, risks and ALL, or it could be…I am living to DISCOVER the MAGIC Moment……here is my favorite quote:

    “YOU HAVE TO take risks, he said. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen. Every day, God gives us the sun-and also one moment in which we have the ability to change everything that makes us unhappy. Every day, we try to pretend that we haven’t perceived that moment, that t doesn’t exist- that today is the same as yesterday and will be the same as tomorrow. But if people really pay attention to their everyday lives they will discover that magic moment…”


  77. Sherre? for a while in my life I fought the fact that I might not be the one WITH the answers but merely the conduit.

    the one who perhaps nudges people toward finding their own answers, discovering MY OWN along the way, & creating community as we go.

    this?

    As someone before me this morning wrote, I LOVE your blog, Miz for MANY reasons. But encouraging me to really ponder issues, ideas, etc. is one of the main reasons.

    made my day in a way you can not know.

    thank you.

    M.

  78. HEY! what if I was going to say the same thing as sherre? 🙂
    would you quote me then? 🙂

    I really love that you don’t just talk about eating and working out.

  79. Love all these comments. In the tough times, my catchphrases have always been “this is only temporary” and “you can do anything for 60 seconds.” (or 5 minutes or whatever timeframe I was dealing with to accomplish something hard) I also adopted the song “Unwritten” last year when I ran my first 5k. It said so much to me, as I was nearing the end of the 55 pound weight loss phase of my life and beginning my life as a maintainer and a runner.

    My catchphrase now? Ala The Beatles….”Gettin’ better all the time. “

  80. Someone else already posted something I keep in mind a lot (for me, this came from Flylady.net): “Progress, not Perfection.” Am I getting something done? Am I moving in the direction I want to go? As long as what I am doing is contributing to some sort of progress in the direction I wish to move, I am making progress (however slight it may sometimes be).

  81. why have I thus far resisted the flylady?

    And on a different note: we’re getting the MEET UP planned for chicago and I’ll have details tomorrow/wed.

    TWITTERED.

    (And also posted up there. *points to twitter box on site*)

    M.

  82. I think it’s important to have a mission statement and now I sit here wondering why I don’t. If I had to start with just some attributes I want to live by they would be:

    be authentic
    be honest
    be true
    be brave

    Impossible, becomes I’m Possible, with just a little shift. It’s often the small tweaks in how you look at things that make a big difference.

  83. So many good ones on here!
    I can’t wait to see what you come up with after all this pondering.

    Right now I’m going with “In a constant state of self improvement.”

    Please note I reserve the right to change my mind. (Maybe that can be mine tagline instead)

  84. When I was a young girl trying to fit in with a body I didn’t understand and a condition (lymphedema) that made me always feel ‘less than’ and often made me feel VERY sad, my mother used to say to me, “At least you can walk.” I hated her for dismissing my feelings with that statement though now I think I know why she said it. To make herself feel better. She didn’t know how to deal with my feelings. I didn’t either.

    I don’t know if it’s a real tagline I would use for why I’m on the planet because it doesn’t put a ton of wind in my sails but it does reminds me to be grateful.

    Every day since the cancer diagnosis, all this b.s. with lymphedema, and all the other dramas on the planet, I can say (with a smile on my face) “At least I can walk” and be really pleased about what seems like a simple thing and not take it for granted.

  86. I recently had a motivational, running-related picture up on my blog, and it’s one of my favorites because of the tag line on it: ‘Live Life In Big Gulps’

    I’ve sort of adopted that as my personal tag line. My fitness journey has become about transforming myself inside and out, so that I CAN Live Life In Big Gulps. It’s all about trying new things, taking risks, going outside my comfort zone….then I am truly taking life in ‘big gulps’, because we don’t really know how much of it we get to enjoy do we? (not to be morbid here, but hopefully you get my drift!)

  87. Hey Miz,

    I watched your video and I realized that I could put this off no longer!! I had some ideas rolling around in my head but hadn’t put the pen to paper yet. I guess I was in the groove of posting and I just didn’t want to stop the train.

    So I thought about how health and fitness have entered into my life and what I did about it and I came up with this work in progress:

    Know When To Make A Change And When To Stay Consistent!

    This has been one of the most basic concepts in both the successes and failures of my life. Seeing a situation for what it’s worth and deciding the proper course of action. If you get too caught up in the past, you could make the wrong choice for the future. And on the other side, if you focus too much on the future, you could lose sight of the present. It’s a balancing act.

    Thanks for the inspiration to get into gear!!

    All the Best,

    Andrew R

  88. wow.

    From the ‘at least I can walk’ to the ‘life in big gulps.’

    all of it.

    thanks for taking the time to share your thoughts…

    Me? Im still thinking.

    Miz.

  89. Hi MizFit: This reminded me of a video I watched in which Guy Kawasaki advises that companies should come up with a three word mantra instead of long, convoluted mission statements. For example, Nike would be “Authentic athletic performance”, UPS would be “Peace of mind”, Wendy’s would be “Healthy fast food”, and so on. Good luck with your mantra!

  90. My current (and outdated) tagline is “If it weren’t for Schadenfreude I’d have no Freude at all.” But since I started on My List, that’s not actually been so true. But it’s been unbelievably true since 2001! Time for a change.

    This is an interesting exercise, and I am going to bend my mind to it….

  91. Ill give this some thought but the reason I never got my blog started was I couldn’t come up with a title.

    doesn’t look good for me…

  92. I love it. I love your tagline, the explanation behind it, and also the notion that a tagline should answer the question “what is this blog about, what problen is it trying to solve”?

    I don’t have a personal tagline. I know that if I had one it would be about happiness and life balance.

  93. two favorites of mine are:
    Rather than push against what I don’t want, simply move toward what I do want. and
    Life is make believe…you make of it whatever you choose to believe about it.
    But, they’re kinda long…

  94. My blog’s tagline is “doing the opposite of what I used to do with respect to food & fitness, every day.” That’s because I needed to make a lot of health changes pretty much all at once. But life in general? Hmmm…that’s a toughie. I’ll have to ponder that a bit more.

  95. Holy crap. This week’s Facetime is deep and tough. I’m going to have to give this some thought and get back to ya.

    Currently my blog’s tagline is something like My Quest for a Slimmer Waistline and a Bigger Bicep which is rather limited though I know I go beyond those subjects.

    As for my personal tagline/vision I’m sure it will be something about love, fun, and not taking myself too seriously. Gotta think on it more.

  97. OK, looks like I’m late to the tagline party…

    So, I’m thinking on this (and I find this one really challenging MizFit…)

    I’m thinking (and consider this a work in progress)

    Be. Do. Love.

  98. I’ve been thinking, and as it says on my blog, one of my big problems is seeking out information, but not putting it to use. As G.I. Joe says, “knowing is half the battle.” But doing is the other half.

    So maybe my (shorter) tagline would be “Know it. Do it.”

    Or a little bit better phrased, “Learn it. Do it.”

  99. I was thinking about this last night before bed and I realized how self-centered mine was. That’s not how I want my mission statement to be. Then again, I think I am just exiting the self-centered stage of my life. So my mission statement needs to change, along with me.

  100. Hi Miz,

    Just catching up.

    I live by: “A little bit of summer every day.” It counters the siren of the office & calls me to my favourite activities, which can only be renewing. Especially refreshing in the cold months!

    Amy

  101. My tagline is “forever spring”, meaning not only am I always striving to be completely myself, I’m also striving to remain forever young and fresh, by continuing to learn and grow and change. I used it as the name of my blog too, to remind me during a difficult time that I just have to be myself, I don’t have to have all the answers.

    A while ago I wrote a mission statement for my blog and it had the added benefit of synthesizing my thoughts about my current life situation as well.

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