Morning Musings

I love my quiet time in the morning.

Seems I wake up, more often than not with the FID’s.  That’s:  Fear Of Impending Doom.  I don’t know why I seem to “come to” most days in this state, but, thank God (or Good Orderly Direction, or Source, or Universal Intelligence, or whatever you want to call it), I do know what to do about it. Continue reading “Morning Musings” »


May 13

Often, if I will just do a token something in the morning, like half my walk or the first segment of an exercise DVD, it is just enough to get me to do some additional little piece later.   So by […]

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May 12

I have found that working out on Mondays makes a difference for the whole rest of the week.  It is like I either got on the exercise track or the couch potato track for the week.  So a decision about […]

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May 11

It seems to me that once I accept that I am going to have to do (forever) some things that are hard for me, like exercise regularly or not eat all the donuts I want in general, then the only […]

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May 10

If I chose to, I can teach myself to argue rationally back.  If I listen to my self talk, then I can see how I promise, excuse and rationalize myself right out of the things I need to do.  Although […]

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May 9

When I have caved in to “no” lots of times, it’s like I have built a virtual mountain of the word “no” that I now have to climb over.   Every time I say no I fling one more “no” onto […]

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May 8

It helps if I am honest with myself about why something is difficult for me.  If I can acknowledge to myself that the real issue with exercise for example is mostly  that I just don’t want to do it (not […]

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