Your Address. Your Body.

Ponder This.

It is where you reside. Where you live. Your body is your house. But a house is just a house. It doesn’t become a home until someone moves in.

Have you moved out some time ago? On an extended vacation? Subletting to shadow comforts? Have you boarded up the windows? Let the paint peel? Allowed the drafts in? The foundation to crumble? Does the roof leak? Are there dust bunnies and spider-webs and dead bugs in the windowsills? Are some of the rooms rarely visited?

I am waxing metaphorically, yet I am speaking from a relationship level, a sensory level. When we move back in, we open the blinds and windows, we turn the lights on, let some air, life and energy in the room. We return home.
~ Lori Merrill-Fink

It Hit Me Like A Ton Of Bricks.

#1. My body is my home. And I am choosing to sublet it to food and little exercise.

#2. My shadow comfort is food. A shadow comfort is a phrase that Jennifer Louden coined.  It’s anything that masquerades as a cherishing and caring self-care technique but that, in fact, drains your energy and well-being.

#3. My place of complacency is procrastination. It’s a default position of apparent comfort. It convinces me to stay put. That’s me convincing me. Don’t exercise. After all, the arthritis in my right knee…well it’s really bad…so I don’t have to walk today…besides I have worked so hard…and I’ll get to it tomorrow.

Procrastination is resistance fear.

Getting A Grip.

Here’s my take: Fear + Food – Exercise = Folly

If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten.
~  Anthony Robbins

Call it an eating disorder. Call it reliance on food. Call it laziness. Call it using my arthritis as an excuse. Call it disrespect for myself. Call it crazy-making. Call it whatever.

What I choose to call it is a merry-go-round that leaves me empty and still swimming in the “not enough-ness” jacuzzi of my life.

The Plan.

Today is the first day of the rest of my life! **And your life too. We are fully at choice here.**

So what’s the plan?

#1 My Intention: I am willing to practice loving my body for this moment.

#2 My Goal: Exercise daily.

#3 My Action: Take a five minute walk the first week. Increase by five minutes each week until I walk one hour.

The Challenge.

• What’s your intention?
• What’s your goal?
• What’s your action?

Getting where we want to be doesn’t just happen. I challenge you to make your plan. Journal about it. Talk to a friend, a coach, a confidante about it. It will change your life.

Live life with no excuses!

Blessings, Lee