Babysteps are hard!!!!

I have wanted to post for awhile but had trouble finding the time since it's spring break. Talk about slipping, Lorrie, I flat out fell hard. My dad has had lots of health problems and was recently diagnosed with his second unrelated cancer. I handled that pretty well. Then last week he was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. Didn't handle that too well. But I took some time to let it consume me and my thoughts and now I am back. I've processed it and have learned to handle it. Most days. I did turn to food to comfort me and it just made me feel so much worse. I have had so many life changing events happen in the past ten years and I need to get out of this poor me frame of mind. This is life, bad stuff happens. I know that I have to take it slow and take babysteps, it is just something that is never easy for me. I am such an all or nothing person and I know that is how I got to where I am now. Not a good place, but certainly much better than I was a year ago. So my commitment for this week is to actually make a commitment to babysteps! One step at a time. I will make one commitment per week and keep building on each one. Thank you everyone for being here. You are definitely a special group of people and reading your posts inspire me more than you know!

keeping it simple

Thanks for the reminder to keep it simple.   I have been slipping this past week.  Not eating as well as I should exercising a little less and I know where this is heading.  Back to the old ways.  So today I will just keep it simple.  I am going to eat well today, no excuses. And I will get a good work out under my belt.  I know what I do today will catapult me into tomorrow.  If I keep on the downward slide today it will continue into tomorrow,  If I dig my heals in and tackle just today, tomorrow will surely follow in a positive manner! 

Commitments this week

I'm letting this "Less is More" concept of the Prize Club grow some deeper roots with me.  The main way I'm doing it is by limiting the number of commitments I make per week.  I don't want to seem as if I'm slacking off, but one or two basic, important commitments to keep me focused and on track towards my vision is working better that a list of them.  

Questions I'm asking myself to get to what is highest in priority:

- What's most important for my overall vision? (this can vary over time)

- Instead of focusing on what's most urgent for the week (I must see my doctor Wed., my driver's license must be renewed, my husband is sick and he needs medicine immediately...), 

-What is most important, but doesn't seem urgent?  (To be in touch with my spirit and my connection to what is holy, To get enough rest, good nutrition and exercise, To communicate honestly and connect with my family and those with whom I interact.)

- What is going to make me feel best about myself at the end of the week? To REALLY feel best...

If I'm good at getting the urgent things done, but poor at doing the important, but not urgent activities -- I don't feel that good about myself at the end of the week.  Therefore, I'm sticking to the high importance, basic activities at this time.  Somehow, I always seem to get urgent things done.  But they never advance the cause.  They allow me to survive -- at whatever level of survival I'm at.  But I want to thrive and make more of a difference.  I need to go back to basics and establish habits or "discipline" in fundamentals.  

So without apologizing for how simple or basic they are, these are my two commitments for this week:

Spiritual Time Daily

Go to bed and get up on a regular schedule 

There are more and different ways to come up with individualized "Less is More" commitments-- how do you make it work?  I, for one, would like to hear about it.  It is helpful to me and I bet for most us.  

Keep pressing for your prizes!