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Yesterday was my first failure in 4 weeks, on this 7 week challenge I set for myself. I regard it as such because it was the first time I gave in to laziness. Regardless of my previous commitment the day before not to let myself stay in bed too late, I did it anyway. So much in fact, that when I got to moving, it was too late to go anywhere and do anything productive.<\/p>\n
So, what did I lose as a result?<\/p>\n
Thankfully, the day wasn\u2019t completely aborted. I still exercised, and I didn\u2019t muddy my diet plan. That was an upside. Also, I finished my daily to-dos in record time. So I\u2019m glad about that, but I felt I had to list down what I failed at mainly so I could give it form, and reflect on it. I feel that when your little compromises have no face, it\u2019s easy to brush them off. But these are the things that accumulate and form bad habits which compound and cause the natural catastrophes called loss, and wasted opportunity and unrecoverable time.<\/p>\n
Writing them down gives them a face, so to speak and it allows me to look at them and acknowledge their presence. And once I\u2019ve done that, I know they are there and I\u2019ll recognize them for what they are when (not if, because we know how temptation works. It\u2019s never gone for long. At least not when you are just starting out.) They show their faces again. I regret it, but I also gave up yesterday, deliberately, because I had a plan. I wanted to reset myself as well.<\/p>\n
I don\u2019t know if I\u2019ve said this before on here, but, I tend to burn out after certain periods of continued effort. I.e., I was trying to keep to the schedule I had set for myself, and I had been doing admirably, but it had started wearing on me somehow. I felt like my system was starting to lag. You know, sort of like your laptop when you don\u2019t properly and fully shut it down for a while. Especially when you have windows open the whole time. You\u2019ve noticed how they glitch and hang, right? And it has happened before, it\u2019s just yesterday I let it actually blow my plans.<\/p>\n
Anyhow, I want to feel bad about it, but it\u2019s gone. What\u2019s done is done. I made my decisions and what happened, happened. I can\u2019t take it back, I can\u2019t change it. At this point, holding on to it and continuing stress over it won\u2019t do me any good. It might even get counterproductive in the long run, and we do not want that.<\/p>\n
So I\u2019m going to acknowledge it for what it was, learn from it, and move on and do better. Hopefully, this won\u2019t happen again. At least not for the remainder of these 7 weeks. That said, I just wanted to share my thoughts on this, and hopefully got something from my experience and this article. Still, I\u2019m glad the weekend is here again. (Thank God! I have had a terrible week and honestly I\u2019m not sorry to see it go.) Hope you have a great weekend, and if I don\u2019t write this weekend, see you next week! : )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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