I’m too busy to obsess over that

Just for today, I choose to live normally and not worry about food.

This has been an amazing week at work. Every night I come home exhausted, happy that I achieved so much. If you have looked at some previous posts, you’ll note that I went through a big round of possible change and discontent concerning my job. Now that I’ve taken some time to absorb and interpret what happened, I see things very differently.

Over the past 3-4 years, my job went through turmoil. Big big reorganizations, manager changes, goal changes. We worked hard to make positive improvements, but mostly it failed. The results in the past years were not very good.

Right after I made the mistake of interviewing for this job recently, my current job took an amazing turn, and now I have plenty to do, better integration into my local team, and we’ve made real improvements. This is a HUGE change compared to the mood that I was in when I interviewed.

I’m so busy, in fact, that I haven’t had time to worry about food. Or to obsess. Instead, when I begin to worry about things that used to fill my obsessions (mostly low self-esteem), I have good tools like affirmations to block the destructive actions. One of the easiest to use is to choose to not obsess for just the next few minutes. That generally clears my head enough to get on with life.

That’s why today’s affirmation is a good one. If you find yourself compulsively eating, or compulsively not eating, or compulsively putting yourself down, try choosing to just let it go for a short time. Promise to go back and obsess later if you really want to (and do it). I hope you find yourself more powerful and feeling more peaceful once you practice this for a while.