I just came home to a very quiet house that suddenly feels a bit too large. Two of the three bedrooms are uncharacteristically clean and the remnants of food I don’t really eat sit in the refrigerator and on the shelves of the pantry. Charlie (the dog) is looking around for the commotion that is no longer here and peeking out the window, looking for approaching cars that are parked in different cities now. The house is quiet. It is time to take stock of the house and the still too numerous belongings, sift through, clean up and organize. I have no excuses now, there are few distractions. I have a few months to make the belongings of this house moveable and shed unnecessary, little used items. Change comes slowly and is not often noticed until it pounces on you, demanding submission. It is so much simpler to drift along living in the moment, certainly a desirable state, but current times demand looking in the mirror, reality checks and revamping. The quiet house is patient and the belongings beg for a place in the future.
Category Archives: change
Day 3: Act
It is time to act, my power word of the day. In order to succeed I have to act and make my success. What does that mean? It means being prepared, stocking my kitchen, portioning my food and planning my exercise so I can make it happen everyday. Action requires doing and if I keep busy, keep moving, keep tracking my food and preparing what I need to eat, I will succeed.
Act implies doing something to make something happen. It is our choice to either let things happen or make things happen so why not chose the outcome your want and then create it? Action often requires steps from point A to point B and once we learn to become the creators of our own lives, great changes can happen.
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Day 1-B-Well Detox: Smile!
Smile is the word of the day and you might wonder why I am smiling as I begin to change my eating habits, diet, and embark on this adventure of a 21-Day Detox Cleanse.
Today I feel like I am floating away having drunk about 64 oz. of water, but I digress…I started the day at 5:30 waking up and getting to the gym at 5:45 for my Couch to 5K workout. I am on Week 3, jogging for 3 minutes alternating with brisk walking. I am actually beginning to enjoy running and the nice endorphin rush that comes with it, giving me that great feeling for the day. I came home, showered and made my egg with some onions, a bit of coffee with Almond Milk and took off for my last day of school before officially beginning summer vacation!
I had a snack of cottage cheese and a handful of raw almonds and a green apple. Feeling content, I continued to drink my water.
Lunch was a bit disappointing because I didn’t really prepare as well as I should have, but we did have our staff party complete with sub sandwiches. I ditched the bread and cheese (which I am sure wasn’t raw) and just ate the turkey, lettuce and tomato.
I had a snack at home (corn tortilla with raw cheddar cheese and a few strawberries) and am now preparing for dinner. I think I will have a chicken breast and some veggies, salad and more water.
I promise to be a better food photographer beginning tomorrow, now that I am officially done with school and can spend a bit more time in the kitchen. I really think I will succeed at this detox. I keep reminding myself that it is only for 3 weeks, and that is the amount of time it takes to develop a habit. Hopefully I am developing some new good habits. Who’s cheering for me? Comments, suggestions?
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21 Day B Well Detox: A Lesson in Waiting
Off to a healthy summer!
I am taking the leap of faith and spending the next 21 days in a sort of waiting or holding pattern while participating in the bwell4life 21-day cleanse. What am I waiting for? I am waiting for the feeling of lightness and health. I am waiting for the ability to stick to something that is healthy and restorative. So come along via my blog on this journey with me, or join in! My goals are:
detox
establish a fitness routine
revamp my kitchen food contents
feel “light”
commit to wellness
start my summer on a positive note
I will post pictures of my new yummy meals, and note my progress.
Waiting is a challenge in this time of instant gratification when even a slightly slow Internet connection is cause for agitated huffing, but I think the things we wait for become more meaningful to us. There are numerous saying about this:
“Good things come to those who wait.”
We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
Joseph Campbell
Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
Carl Sagan
Waiting is mysterious because at times, we don’t know what we are waiting for, we just have a “feeling” that we are waiting forsomething.
Waiting for “the other shoe to drop,” my life to begin, a positive change, what is due, what I deserve…the list is endless. What if we stop waiting and take the first step? What if we make change happen? We can wait for the change to emerge, for the change to become habit or for the change to show, but taking the first step and being the catalyst for our own change is the best way to start the wheels of change moving.
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Risk
Take a risk. Change will bloom.
How often do we take a risk? Not a dangerous risk, but the kind of risk that feels slightly uncomfortable yet might result in a positive change. It is easy to go along with the things as they are and taking a risk can produce uneasy feelings of anxiety but the results can also be a new path leading to a better future.
People stay in relationships, jobs, friendships and locals because keeping things the same takes a lot less effort than the effort it takes to leap into the unknown. Yet, often that leap is what we look back on as a changing point in our lives that made all the difference.
I am ready to take a risk-to change my mindset and begin to experience abundance. I have lived too long in the state of worry and “not enough” and am making a conscious choice to let myself feel “enough.” I am taking the risk of letting go of previously held thoughts, and to allow my mind to be free of preconceived notions and ideas, habits and traits. I am practicing meditation and visualization.
This risk, for me, is worth it. I am ready to move forward.
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Change
Change can be empowering, frightening, enlightening, depressing, difficult or exciting. Often change is all of these emotions at the same time, which is possibly why so many of us are hesitant to voluntarily take change on. Usually change happens “to” us, or we are forced to change against our will.
I have always been emotional during life-stage changes such as children growing up and entering new phases of their lives, weddings, births, deaths, and moving on, either to a new home, new job, new place in my life. Change does not come easily because it places us in an uncomfortable unknown place and we crave the familiar.
At some point though, we begin to crave change. We look in the mirror and say “enough!” Or we see an opportunity to grow intellectually, spiritually or to improve our health or our surroundings and we say “yes.” We initiate the change, and that is a huge step to insuring its success. Change embraced is change most likely to be effective.
I am embracing change. I have three areas that I will focus on: health, spirituality, and responsibility. I will change my health habits to protect my body and to assure my health by exercising daily walking, with yoga, strength training, pilates and Qigong (my new-found exercise area of interest.
I will focus on spirituality through meditation (One Moment Meditation), connecting with people I care about, and those I want to help and self-reflection.
I will focus on responsibility by taking responsibility to educate myself about the things I need to take care of myself and live the life I want to live. Those include financial responsibility, staying connected to those I care about, performing my best at my job, challenging my intellect and being there, emotionally and physically, for my friends and family.
Change is not something that comes easily to me, it is an area that I chose to work on. My life is not stagnant and my self-initiated changes are more likely to have a positive impact on my life.
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