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To Know Thyself is the Beginning of Wisdom
I fail at my diet every day at 1pm. Or rather, sometime in between 1pm and 5pm. It’s that weird afternoon time where I’m prepping lunch, thinking about getting dinner ready, and my kiddo is home from school and wanting a snack. There’s a lot of time spent in the kitchen, much of it just sort of puttering around without much of a plan. I have excellent intentions. Make a beet salad. Eat spinach. Peel a carrot. And then I find myself re-discovering cake. And not only does all my good work all morning go out the dang window, but I’m playing an un-winnable game of catchup for the rest…
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Why is change so hard? (in which I disappeared for a month)
Why is making change so hard, and so confronting? How is it that I’ll have four really good days, make some progress, feel really good, and then have a terrible day. Then I want to go hide under a rock for three weeks to get over it. This is not the way one achieves goals. I know that intellectually, but it’s the whole “getting my body to go ahead with what my mind wants” that’s hard. It’s all well and good to look at quotes like this, and feel inspired: But what happens when you fear the new? What happens when you are afraid of the new because it’s an…
