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” »


January 20

Behavioral Basics – When I get too far off the beam, I need to go back to the basics.  No matter that I think I should be smarter and more committed, have more willpower than I do, that I am […]

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January 19

Behavioral Basics – I have to stop doing the actions that sabotage me instead of just hoping that they won’t.  One of the dangers of self-help books for me was being under the impression that, if I could just find […]

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January 18

Behavioral Basics – I have to keep doing the things that inspire me.  The constant environmental stimulus wears me down and I seem to forget why I thought this was so important.  I listen to and read lots of nutrition […]

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January 17

Behavioral Basics – Dr. Phil said/wrote somewhere “choose the behavior, choose the consequence”.  In the context in which he wrote/said it, he didn’t mean the obvious, like…eat too many brownies – get fat.  He meant the less obvious, like fail […]

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January 16

Behavioral Basics – I have to practice acting on the beginning of the behavior chain.  It isn’t enough to just recognize it.  If that is all I do, likely I will recognize myself doing the exact same thing with the […]

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January 15

Behavioral Basics – I have to take action to help myself.  I have to do something.  If nothing changes, nothing changes.  I found great comfort recently when a friend said that in nautical terms, just one degree of change can […]

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