Starting Again

            Can I call myself a blogger if I don’t post for 3 ½ months? I guess if I am a blogger, I’m a very poor one. I see that my last post predicted what surely did occur…lack of time, energy, and inspiration for blogging. Well, I forgive myself and I hope you do too. As a bonus for the lapse, in addition to today’s post I will offer the October/November post that I intended to submit but never finished writing…until today. J

With the holidays past and the new year in full swing, like most people, I’ve put some thought into how I can make this year better than last year. What improvements can I make in myself? My relationships? Can I squeeze anything else out of this experience that I will only get once? Turns out I’m at least gonna try. Step 1: get up an hour earlier every day to work out, take my time showering, make my lunch,  and have my breakfast at home (rather than in the car). That alone has done wonders to my mornings, which have tended to consist of dragging my body out of bed 40 minutes before I had to be walking through my office door, inevitably being late, spilling my breakfast on my coat as I down it in the van and having to buy my lunch…again. Step 2: Utilize the technological wonder that is my new Kindle Fire to make better choices. How? Download a food diary app that uses the weight watchers point system to start making better food choices. Download a bible app and start a daily parenting devotional. It reminds me every day to take 30 seconds and read a little good Word. All of a sudden, I’m exercising, eating better, lost a few pounds, and getting a daily bible lesson. What the what?!

            So with some new tools and growing motivation in place, I will attempt to get myself into a place where breakdowns are fewer and farther in between. I’m sure my husband will appreciate it since I tend to save them all for him. Also, I will appreciate it. We always talk about all of the things that we “should” do and chastise ourselves for not doing them; and chastise ourselves again when we experience the consequences of not doing them. What an exhausting cycle of pain and distraction! Getting out of that cycle is not rocket science, it’s just making a choice to start something. And let it go from there.

            I wish everyone the absolute best as you move into your own version of making this year better than last. May you start something today.