One of my favorite motivational stories is about how a mama giraffe teaches her newborn baby how to get back up quickly. It needs to learn this so it will be able to run away from predators. When her calf is born (by dropping ten feet)…she waits about a minute then she kicks it and sends it sprawling. She violently repeats this over and over until the calf gets up on its wobbly legs and then…just as it is beginning to stand tall…she does the unthinkable…she kicks it again!!! What??? Yep. She kicks it again so it learns how to get back up.
Sometimes I need a good kick. Like now. I have let myself get down and it is time for me to get back up in my heart again. I’ve been focusing on negative things and allowing them to steal my joy. It’s not the first time and it probably won’t be the last but…now that I am aware of my state it is time for me to do the things I know to do to get back up.
What am I doing you might ask? Well, for starters I am doing the things that I stopped doing that got me here in the first place. Writing this blog post is one of them. Recommitting to drinking 60 oz. of water a day is another. And then there is moving my body as in doing my daily arm weight routine and walking a mile or two every day. It is not easy. I wish it was. Getting back up is work at first. It’s crazy to me how easy it is to get down and not as easy to get back up. It takes effort. It takes commitment. Ahhh… there is that word…that word I have a love/hate relationship with. The word I wrote about just last night. But here’s the deal…every time I keep a commitment to myself…I feel good. That’s it. That’s the point. The better I feel, the better I feel. And…the better I feel the better the world around me feels and then…you get the point.
I’m still in the… forcing myself to keep my commitments stage. It is a process. I am impatient and want to see the results quickly so right now I am reminding myself to not get too far ahead and take it one day at a time. I am looking forward to feeling back up in my heart. I am trusting the process so for now I am happy with the progress I’ve made in only a few days. Big Deep Breath. I can almost say I am looking forward to tomorrow. Wow. That’s cool.
Until tomorrow…
Much love,
Suzi