When You Find Yourself in "The Dip"

I'm sitting here early on Friday morning, November 21, and just had an interesting experience.

I was standing in the bathroom, brushing my teeth, and when I looked in the mirror what I saw upset me... which is wierd because I had just climbed off the scale which read 215.5! Down 23 pounds in 47 days! Yet somehow I felt bad.

Why? Why feel bad after such a great start? I mean, I should be celebrating!

Well, the reason is simple. I felt bad because even though I've come so far... there's still so far to go.

I bring this up because the critical point in any worthy quest is not so much in the 'getting started' phase... it's in the 'keep on keeping on phase' phase - or, as Seth Godin identified in his best selling book, it's what happens when you find yourself in "The Dip"...

• When you lose the initial excitement...
• When you get a bit tired...
• When you realize just how much further you have to go...
• When you just want to quit and go back home...

I feel like I'm in an Ashton Kucher segment of "Punked"... only I just got "Dipped!"

So, how do you get yourself out of the dip when you experience one? How am I going to get out of mine? Or am I going to quit? After 47 days will I start throwing sabots in the gears of my own machinery?

These are good questions.

Stay tuned...