Vacation Notes
Dear Friends,
It’s been quiet around here. Mostly because I was supposed to be experiencing a month of 7 – decreasing waste in my life and really focusing on the foods that fuel me. In sum….
That was supposed to be Oct. It’s now December and you can rest assured that my silence the last two months was not from being so good and focused on my eating that I just didn’t have time to blog. No, it was really more like if I avoided checking in then maybe no one would notice that for 2 months in a row I just couldn’t quite do 7 Foods.
So…here is what I’ve learned/relearned:
- My friend Ashlee called me on it a long time ago when she said (in similar words) “You’re a self quitter. You don’t quit others even when you should but when a process you’re committing to gets hard on yourself you quit.” GUILTY AS CHARGED.
- I am a great negotiator. LOL – like sign me up FBI because I’m top notch. I was able to escape the first month of “failed” 7 to talk to myself about balance and how it’s not always about rules but learning and blah blah whatever else I came up with that day to feel better about that crap food I was eating.
- Give a mouse a cookie and a they want a glass of milk. We all have areas in our lives that are like that “thorn in our side” Paul referred to. It’s that thing that holds you back somehow and just when you think you’ve got it tame it rears it’s ugly head. Maybe for you, it’s food, or gossip, or spending, or lust or lying. For me – I never thought it was food…until I realized it was food. Hey girl hey.
- Discipline is built not bought. Disciple can’t be a short cut. It’s learned over time as you string together good choices.
- Failure used to cripple me. I feared it, I ran from it, I would sabotage things so I could control the failure. Now I know that failure isn’t fatal and it’s actually one my best ways to learn. Bring on the failure! But actually, please Jody don’t fail this one next time lol … you have to learn eventually.
So….what’s that mean for me and 7:
- I’m not doing food this month I can tell you that!
- I am going to refocus on what I need to do food wise and get back to some basics. I’m using this month to prep myself for what needs to happen next month with food. Discipline people discipline.
- I am doing 7 this month – and attacking clutter. So each day I’m going to find 7 items to get rid of. I can throw away or donate away but by the end of this month my house will be down 217 items. The 1st 3 days of purging include things like: the boots I just had to have but do not wear, the pants I bought because they were on sale that I will never wear, the blanket I do not use that my friend George can deliver to a homeless camp right away, books I read but don’t need on my shelves anymore, and more.
- I’m predicting this will be an “easier” month – which is totally cheating but I needed an easier win AND my house needs cleaned up. I fully expect it to get harder as the month goes on. General trash will not count towards the 7 items per day – because that would be too easy in this house right now. OOPS!
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