22nd June
2018
Do something when
you’re not quite ready to do them – that’s how you grow.
Fell asleep in my
armchair last night then managed a sneaky lie in this morning till 6am, rock
and roll me, plus apart from my meetings, yesterday wasn’t an easy day in my
house but that was then and this is now and today will be a lovely day! Plus the sun’s shining = bonus.
I’m still not
properly awake I don’t think, my brains in go slow mode and to be honest I don’t
want to speed it up, Alfie’s sat looking at me wanting a walk and will not move
till I take him, he’s now jumping up me now, so apparently I either get to
write the rest of my blog with him being a ballache or I go walk him then write
when I get back. I’m going to opt for
the latter as then I might think of something inspirational when I get back and
also not sit here wanting to murder him as now he’s whining like a bitch!
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See it’s amazing what a walk can
do, giving your brain time to work. It reminded me of all the wonderful things
that happened yesterday! I have to say one of those things absolutely made my
day, my Sharon turned up to help yesterday morning with the money plant from
her porch, she knows I want one and it’s the most amazing specimen and she’d
had a chat with her husband and they’d agreed I could have it. I’m absolutely
thrilled to bits, smiling like a Cheshire Cat as I’m walking and writing this,
I can’t wait to repot it and get a nice pot for it to take pride of place in my
living room.
Not quite as valuable but equally
as nice a gesture was Elle dropping off some booklets I needed and a packet of Weight
Watchers wraps too, how thoughtful was that, she knows we’re talking No Count
and I fancy doing the odd day and the wraps are zero on a No Count day.
Wednesday one of my members
dropped me round the most glorious smelling sweet peas from her garden, just
amazing and yesterday another did a bit of shopping for me to save me going out
my way to get stuff I can’t get from my own.
How kind are people and how lucky
am I to be surrounded by such folk.
I sat in the garden with mom the
other day, we weren’t out there long but I was in a reflective mood, thinking
about what’s truly important in life, what are our simple pleasures. I’d got
like this because I’d been reading a few FB posts that had saddened my heart,
people disappointed or angered by their own behaviour over their eating habits.
I’m all about the healthy weight loss but I also want people to enjoy life, to
accept they aren’t perfect, that it’s okay to have slips and go out and enjoy
themselves, making memories with their families and friends. Otherwise if we
take the whole weight loss too seriously it consumes us and takes away our joy
and that’s not healthy either. It’s not just our physical health we need to
take care of it’s our mental health too
I asked mom “You’re coming up to
your 80th birthday, what inner knowledge have you got to share - what’s
important in life”, her response;
“Being yourself and being nice to
people, oh and don’t keep worrying about everything. When you get up in a
morning you should say it’s going to be a good day today and be confident”
My mom spend her life worrying,
she spent her youth insecure and lacking in confidence, turns out it was a
waste of energy!
I spent a great deal of my youth
ill, or feeling like I didn’t fit in or angry because I was ill or not like
other people.
Now I’m so glad I’m different,
that I don’t fit the mould, that I embraced my quirks, my oddities, my
differences. I’m grateful and blessed that my epilepsy was sorted and
controlled in my teens and that my anger is an emotion I control pretty well, I
use it as a release when necessary and needed but I don’t let it eat me up.
These days I’m all about letting things go and laughing at myself when I talk
stuff too seriously.
I’ll never be a skinny bird again
I don’t think because one of life’s pleasures for me is food, last Friday when
Lynne and I went for lunch, that starter we had, oh my days you’ve never seen
two women get so excited over 2 sausages because they were pork, and yes I am
chuckling as I type that, I’ve smiled every time I thought of the two of us
going quiet apart from the mmm food noises we made as we both sat there and
consumed our sausage like we’d never had one in our lives before! Truly
comical, how times change as we age, there was a time many years ago when we’d
have been out on the pull looking for a different type of sausage all together!
Sadly not together as we didn’t know each other back then - oh the fun we
would’ve had if we did! Not these days though these days we’re all about good
company, giggles, good food and friendship, yeah I like getting older well
accept for the pain, years ago the only pain was heartache these days every
inch of me aches as I walk Alfie my knees clicking and my backs warning me
“don’t worry I’m gearing up to hurt later, you’ve only just got out of bed give
me an hour and the pain will kick back in”
I have rambled haven’t I. I’m not
even going to go back and read it through to see if it makes sense because I
don’t care if it does, I’ve smiled as I’ve wrote it and now I’m looking forward
to my day of middle aged madness.
Enjoy your day too, wherever you
are in your life because BeYOUtiful we only get one life, don’t waste it on the
wrong emotions xx
Oh today’s challenge I almost
forgot. At the end of today ask yourself how are you feeling, how was my day,
was it
Insecure
Excited
Weird
Rejected
Meh
Happy
Stressed
Anxious
Heartbroken
Sad
Angry
Or pick another emotion
Then sit still and breathe deep
for 30 seconds and then answer the question,
Why are you feeling ...... ? (Use
the word you chose in the blank space.
Next answer the question, what
about your day wasn’t ...... ? (Again use the word you chose to fill in the
blank, acknowledge the good stuff).
Of course if you were lucky
enough to choose happy don’t do the second question instead use that energy,
write down a wish you want to come true. And a few things you’re grateful for.
I did this last night and it
really helped, I plan to do it again tonight, I used an app on my phone, not
had time to really take a look at it but I plan too. If you’re interested it’s
call Happy Not Perfect
7 steps to reset your
mindset: TV presenter Poppy Jamie wants you to be happy, not perfect.
Right we’re almost home and I
have a cuppa to make. Catch ya tomorrow.
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