We know what to do, so why don’t we do it?
We’ve heard it: “Eat right, drink 8 glasses of water a day, get 7 -8 hours of sleep, exercise at least 30 minutes a day, take vitamins, drink alcohol in moderation, be nice to your mama and call her once in awhile…”
Sound familiar? Of course it does. What stops us from doing those very simple things? I find some days that I will carefully lay out the vitamins I need to take. I put them in a cute little Japanese dish that I bought just for that. And there they sit all day. Apparently they do not enter my bloodstream until they leave the dish! Sticking them in a dish doesn’t count!
What stops us? How do ‘the best laid plans of mice and men’ go astray? Are we all ADD? Is it information overload? Are there too many choices and too much on our plates that the simple task of taking care of our selves goes on the back burner? Or is it just inertia?
Apparently there’s something in our DNA that tells us ‘if we did it for a while, the effects should last forever.’ That’s how we wind up ten years later staring longingly at old snapshots of us in great shape and wondering what the hell happened.
Hey hey hey – I USED to be a vegetarian… I USED to be in really great shape… you should have seen the six pack I HAD… I meditated for hours at a time in the old days!
Well, I suppose the only thing we can do is start again: Do what we know how to do — one thing, one second, one day, one choice at a time. We can’t try to do it all at once. Our brains will probably explode.
So. Make a good choice right now. Drink more water today. Tomorrow you can add some vitamins back into the mix. The next day, maybe walk the dogs. The next, park further away from the elevator.
…and call your mom. She might not be around much longer.
Stop beating yourself up and give it a shot,
cheers,
Beth
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© 2010 Beth Terry Seminars, Inc.
Beth,
Great advice you’ve suggested, and I will add that if you include a packet of EmergenC in your water, you’ve added Vitamin C to your day, and it helps build up your immune system. It makes the water taste good, and that can’t be all bad! I am another one to miss my vitamins, even though they may be sitting in a nice little dish. Thanks for sharing your ideas.
Bonnie
Hi Bonnie! – Great to hear from you. You are right that keeping the vitamins in the dish doesn’t do a lot of good! LOL I do that some days, as if setting them out is the idea. Hah! They don’t work by osmosis! I tried the Emergen-C, but the sugar content is too high for me. That IS a good suggestion, though. A good pick-me-up that people can keep in their purse. I know if I drink too much water at a time i get water-sick. So I have to make sure I take a pinch of Celtic Sea Salt occasionally, especially in our hot Phoenix summer days. That’s an effective electrolyte replacer, too.
Beth
I have the fizzy C vits – ready (with water) by the bedside if I wake up at night, but I’m not big on drinking water ‘nude’. What ‘they’ want us to do and what is good for us may be two different things. I do what works for me.
And this works for me too- if your mum is dysfunctional you don’t have to call her.
My mom took a vow of silence – best thing she ever did.
LOL – Ah yes… some mums are just not the perky happy TV moms that we’ve grown up watching. Whatever works is whatever works. And sometimes things change. Oh Well! We all are pedaling as fast as we know how. That doesn’t mean we are pedaling as fast as we can, but I just assume most people are doing what they know. In the end, none of us makes it out of here alive!
Beth