Well, here it is February and this many days past the start of the New Year and here I am still stuck where I was back in 2011, or so it seems! I have found that time truly passes by too quickly in my dottering years. But then, I hear 'young folk' say the same thing. I often think that our life patterns can lodge in a rut that leads absolutely nowhere. And, that staying in that rut will have us found at the end of our days, shaking our heads and completely befuddled as to how we got there!
I found this saying the other day and felt it appropriate along this line of thought. So often it's just a matter of FINALLY making up your mind to choose to do things differently. That's the first step. Whether it's to start that new exercise program, mount the treadmill every day (like you used to...but got lazy) or trying to beat a destructive habit. Telling yourself that "it's TIME to do things differently" is a good beginning. The second 'C' about taking chances is something that may need a little more work.
Trying to convince yourself that the risk is worth the chance you take.
If you want to quit smoking but are afraid you'll get fat (a common misnomer associated with that act), you will never know if you can quit and keep your girly - or hunky physique, if you just don't try. If you convince yourself in your mind that it's going to happen and you are too fearful to put yourself out there, you have already defeated yourself before you begin.
If you stop eating the bad stuff that makes you feel good 'temporarily' what's going to eventually happen? It may feel great the moment you eat that small indulgence, but that spur of the moment choice will eventually wear your body down and make it more susceptible to illness and disorder. Making a choice to not eat it says "I am in control, nothing out there controls me."
Enough of the right choices in our lives leads to the inevitable third 'C'... that of change. How many times I personally have said, "I wish things could change" in a certain area of my life, only to ignore the obvious...change starts with choices that I make. I have more power over some of these things than I give myself credit for.
So, wherever you are in your personal journey into the new year, I hope you'll wrap your mind around the "3 C's" line of thought and begin to implement their truth. And, I hope you'll all keep me accountable for the choices I seem to make contrary to my own best interests.
It starts with one step in the right direction...I want to take that step.
How about you?
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