Ah, but all is not smooth. We knew that. We talked about that. Remember? Transistions are never smooth, but it takes what it takes to get to from one place to another, and if the goal is worth it, the journey is worth it.
So why am I struggling with - guess what - my three focus goals of the week: 8 hours in bed, pack lunch, write down my food. I guess I knew what I needed! LOL
I did well on 8 hours in bed after lights out for about 5 nights. The last 2 nights - no so much. I did well packing lunches most of the last several weeks. This week - sorta kinda but not really. I did well logging my food the first couple months (mostly). This week - bleah.
So I’m giving myself accountability by posting it here. And you need to know this is not all a mountain-top to mountain-top experience.
These three focus goals are important and they are not *too big* to ask them of myself. So, what’s the problem? I need to *get with the program.*
Ah, who knows. I saw myself getting frustrated this morning, feeling like *I’ll never get there* and I saw in my mind a future Olympic athlete who had only made it through about 1/8 of the training they would need to win. That poor athlete was feeling like it was bad, nothing was ever going to work, everything was looking terrible, they would never get it.
That’s how I feel sometimes. But then I saw that if the athlete stayed at it, kept practicing, those things that look so rough and raw now are shaped and polished down the road. And, eventually, the results of all that training show up - in a champion. Is that us?
I am reminded: Get a plan; Do the plan; Trust the process.
I’ve done that. Nobody I know does tough things perfectly at first. And there is always Chesterton, paraphrased:
A thing worth doing is worth doing badly at first.
Slogging on…
