SELF CARE THROUGH FOOD - WHAT YOU EAT MATTERS

So you mindlessly shove another dorito chip into your mouth,  Im mean who cares, you're busy and you don't have time for specially crafted meals - who really does now a days? I need to collect a dozen things from the shops, tick off my to-do list and then in a few hours..,, who am I kidding - quite a lot of hours, plop my bum in the couch and zone out on series and take out....

I feel myself justifying my need to do nothing - I deserve to zone out and stuff my face - life is busy. This 21st century women vibe can be a lot to pull off. And being Martha  Steward is a whole other thing to add to the game of supreme women rocking the world vibes that I need to master.... Another day maybe?

PEP TALK: Women vibes and self love and self care can be hard to priorities some times - but at the very base of self care and self love is the basic need to feed our bodies and give it rest.

Food is a means to an ends - just like sleep. But this one simple ritual that provides our body with fuel can either poison us or make us thrive. Yes you read that right -eating can be either kind or cruel.

LETS START WITH 3 THINGS WE CAN DO TO HELP US THRIVE:

One SMALL word to create change

I wrote this blog post for when you're feeling motivated BUT you ALSO want change...  Its the DIY of how to help yourself get from feeling to doing.


Ever felt really chuffed with yourself for feeling all motivated? I have! We feel like change is around the corner, we can feel it with every part of our being... then after a day or two OR a week or two it fades. Which kind of sucks.... Have you ever wandered what to do with that motivation AND how to help yourself make it work for you?

It all starts with a change in mindset - you see feeling motivated is not an action.

I know as a human being we (myself included) like to stop at the feeling... example: feeling motivated to go for a walk is very different to ACTUALLY GOING and doing the walk. But I really like that I felt motivated to want to do it (10 points for me - wink)

PICK JUST 1 THING

It occurred to me that there are only 52 weeks in the the year and therefore only 52 Mondays, 52 Tuesdays, 52 Wednesdays etc (you get my point). So that would mean that I could harness this power of pattern that the working world (calendar) has put before me to pick one day of the week and decide to work on a skill, or desire I want to make happen.

It seems silly that I have only just realized the power of this. I mean I have always had the same 52 weeks every year right? but this year it dawned on me - lets say I pick every Monday to write for 30 minutes (I mean just 30 minutes, once a week) sounds doable. That means I would get in 50 sessions of writing (I took out 2 weeks because you know - life happens).


THE MATH
So back to the 50 sessions.
Lets do the math: 50 session x 30 minutes = 25 hours. 

25 hours of doing something consistently is nothing to sneeze at.