Diligence, indomitable spirit and other stories

A dictionary defines diligence as:

1. Earnest and persistent application to an undertaking; steady effort; assiduity.
2. Attentive care; heedfulness.

Now one of my aims, (as sad as some of you may consider that to be) is to be slimmer of the week at my slimming class. In order to achieve this you have to a) lose the most weight in the class and b) have lost weight the week before as well as staying to class.  One of my bug bears has been my inability these past few weeks to lose two weeks on the trot despite having followed the plan diligently.( wow! Aren’t I clever! Ha ha ) I mean I have lost 1 stone and 8.5lbs so far, with 2.5lbs lost this weigh in.  yippee… I honestly felt like breaking into dance there and then, and it has been the culmination of good week but also, my attention to the detail of the plan and how I tend to react. I have also developed very good planning skills!

The point I am really making is that this plan does work but it does require you to follow it, one needs to be persistent with it too.  I am also very happy that my beloved reds beat west ham 3-0 this Saturday, hooray!  How diligent were they or was it a flash in the pan?  In my mind Mr Hogdson would be conducting some due diligence of his own round about now, trying to understand what spurs are going to put us through next weekend, watching videos etc... well he should be doing something shouldn’t he?  I mean he needs to heed what their star players are going to be doing!!!

When you are constantly not achieving your goals, you begin to feel fed up and almost may wish to abandon the plan altogether. This is where indomitable spirit comes in.  This is to show courage when you and your principles are pitted against overwhelming odds. Although these words were not used in class today, we did talk about staying with it when it all seems to be going wrong, after all let’s face it, its easy to stick at it when its working isn’t it… you need strength and will power to stop from throwing it all away, because you have had a bad moment and your circumstances are challenging you, kids playing up, having to go to micky dees, domestic issues meaning you don’t get time to cook, there are lots of things that tend to go wrong. This principle is learnt at tae kwan doh and is one of the 5 tenets!

I have to talk about x-factor here..again… one of the other tenets of tae kwan do is integrity and it has now become glaringly clear that the judges (well except maybe Danni) do not have any of this quality, I mean did you listen to that Louis Walsh this week…he went on and on about how good paije was, how he has always supported him, and that they (him and cher) both did not deserve to be in the bottom two… did he put his money where his mouth is? Hell now he could have sent it to Deadlock and let the public decide but he decided to send paije home instead. I hated that and I was screaming at the TV, It was quite clear that they must have known the public vote although they go to copious lengths to deny that…somehow somehow its obvious that Cher, and Katy are their favourites and they will go to any lengths to keep her in..Meanwhile the Wagner fan machine goes on and on, and Mary obviously has all of Ireland voting for her. I can’t wait to see if this will fetter out or if this is the year when the joker will win?  That will be poetic justice against Simon et al for their lack of integrity don’t you think?