I wish I could tell you have a slew of goals for the month. I'm just going to be delighted by making it through with healthy parents and a few nights of decent sleep.
I have been tracking my food.
I have been keeping better track of what I have accomplished.
I have been feeling much better because I am tracking my food and realizing that I do accomplish quite a bit each day.
I'm not Catholic, but in the past I've given up something I liked or spent too much time doing during Lent. I guess I could do it anytime of the year, but we talk about making these changes or sacrifices either at the beginning of the year when we're loathe to repeat old habits or patterns, or this time of year, when some believe we should suffer.
A friend posted something about the things we should really consider giving up - for Lent, for life, for whatever. A few things that struck home for me were the following.
- Fear of failure (trust me, everything fails, get over it)
- impatience (learning this the hard way with my parents)
- people pleasing (I'm learning this from the dog)
- distraction (what? No, listen, really listen)
- bitterness (see no. 1)
- busyness (Say YES to No)
- resistance to change (be the change, and I don't mean that in a Bernie Sanders way)
I believe these things are much harder to give up than chocolate or Facebook.
