In five days we will all affirm again our intentions to lose weight, get organized and save money. Some of us will write our resolutions down (exponentially increasing thereby our chances of success). Most of us will mention them during a phone call to a friend or a conversation at the office. The optimists among us will buy a book or order a prepackaged program off an infomercial to support our intentions. The pessimists think they know better, and won't even bother to do that much.
What I love about these three major resolutions is that, at their core, they are really about the same thing: In 2009 I will make intentional choices that strengthen me in body and soul, rather than letting my life wash over me and knock me around.
The fat on our bellies is clutter. The clothes we buy because we can't find our way through our closets is increased debt. The panic we feel when we read a credit card statement is calmed through a quick sugar contact high. When, therefore, we work to solve any one of these three problems, we are, in fact, solving ALL three problems.
The energy boost from losing weight helps us tackle the closet. The sight of our own clothes, sorted and hung neatly keeps us home, admiring the peace, rather than running out to the mall to escape. And as most health insurance analysts will tell you, a healthy waistline saves you thousands of dollars each year.
Where will you begin in 2009? What intentions will you set for the year, and what spillover benefits do you hope to receive? Write it down now--post it to the comments of this blog--and take that first little, but all-important step.
Tomorrow's blog is about fear of success, by the way. If you have any experience with that, post those comments too!
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I'm going to post prematurely on fear of success as I'm more familiar with it than fear of failure (surprise!)
Its easy to be an optimist when you start a new adventure...dieting, new sport, new relationship, new job...but once you begin, if your expectations aren't met (immediate weight loss, prowess, love, etc) you begin to wonder if the work the new adventure requires (because they all require work!) is worth it. Even a new haircut...you can convince yourself that you'll feel beautiful/more lovable/ more...whatever with the "perfect hair" and when you don't...the disappointment is palpable. '
What if you lose that weight, get that job, play that game...and you still don't get whatever it is you really wanted? (money, love, friends...) the doubt is killing and the result worse.
You need to make changes for yourself, not for the expectation of others response to your change. Usually no one else has the emotional investment in your new thing that you do, and they will therefore never give you the response you feel it is worth (because losing 10 pounds IS a big deal...to you. But to your friends it warrents a "hey, good for you...lets talk about Brangelina's new kids...or whatever)
Does any of this make sense? If it doesn't, I blame the pregnancy.
--liz
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