Alive and working

Work is inevitable. Struggle is optional.

I’m still here - just swamped at work. I’m working in the mornings before I go to work, all day without a pause, then in the evenings again after I get home.

No chance to get out to swim since last Sunday. No chance to write thoughtful posts to my blog. Just work. There are at least some benefits, though. Our CEO for the very first time mentioned our team’s achievements and told all 2000 of us that we will all be working together on the goals that I have worked so hard to improve.

Now just one more big event before Christmas. I think I’ll sleep through the whole vacation.

Work is inevitable, struggle is optional. This is true for real, for-pay work. Same is true for beating an ED and losing weight. You can acknowledge that you have these goals, and you can make a plan to reach your personal goals, but how you think about them will determine how you reach them.

You can say, “I will diet until I reach goal weight.” If you say this, you are building up in your mind a time in which you won’t diet. That can be trouble, because you might not make it. Then you will feel discouraged and the effort will seem wasted.

How about changing what you say? Try, “I am permanently changing my habits to reach my goal weight. This involves a pretty interesting journey away from food and into a life I may never have known before.”

Wham, bam, presto! Suddenly the ED work is not a struggle, but a journey. Maybe even a vacation. What a dream. What a joy.