I AM POSSIBLE
Tuesday Nov. 5, 2013
What is possible?
What is not?
Giving up over-eating for instance, in my case, is an easily made goal.
Achieving it is simple – just push back sooner from tables, keep track (self- embarrassment might help), smaller portions, different choices while shopping, avoid everything on the don’t-list, skip fast-food, skip-impulse grocery shopping (don’t go in their on an empty stomach) and, skip dessert.
All easy. All good. All … so simple.
Not so simple. Easily abandoned, so many goals, tasks, self-promises we make. Amazing we can remember them day over day, week after … weak.
Yes, weak.
I am.
Sticking with ‘new things’ I decide are important are so difficult.
Why?
Well, not difficult to do, but difficult to make habit.
Easy to say ‘this will be new’ or ‘I will change that’, but doing it isn’t so easy if doing it is part of commitment to change, to improvement, to better life, longer life, happier life. Easy? Sure … no problem.
I’ll be completely changed in a week. Wait a minute – why take that long?
I read somewhere, one of those Mayo clinic heart-healthy guides that tell you what to eat, what not eat, they tell us to make change slowly. Why is that? Perhaps, if we call changed quickly the food/drug industries would tailspin with their inability to cope.
Or is it really our own mind’s ability to cope?
I hope – nope, I WILL cope. I WILL change. I WILL lost weight. I WILL change my habits. I WILL have will …
With a large dash of WON’T. That’s my affirmation recipe ~
I went looking for inspirational quotes to help me, found this one I thought was pretty good:
Audrey Hepburn said: “Nothing is impossible, the word itself says I’m possible!”
Easy for her to say … she was so disgustingly skinny!
I’ve climbed this hill before – with so many failures, so many set-backs and so much back-sliding, slack-sliding.
I don’t know if I have a new goal as much as a re-focused one. I’ve so much to do, so much to make happen I simply have no choice – I can’t do it if I’m not more fit, more healthy, leaner, energetic, clear headed and without clogged arteries . . .
So, perhaps Audrey was right.
I’M POSSIBLE.
So are you … just in case you were wondering.
Mark Kolke
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column written/ published from Calgary
morning walk: -11C / 12F , sunny and calm – chilly cheeks, invigorating; Gusta wanted to engage an overweight bulldog in conversation while both owners scrambled to hold back the reigns on very slick parking lot … kids at bus-stops looking happier than usual …
Comments Received:
You go boy! I am referring to your note yesterday and your column today. Pease cook me up a bottle of your life juice – I’m plum out., CM, Calgary, AB
