I cling to my imperfection, as the very essence of my being.
Anatole France (1844 – 1924)
Photo by joan_sadler
Hello friends. I’ve experienced a mini epiphany…which has led me to rethink the basic format of this website. I need to be more loose, flowing and (dare I say it?) CREATIVE if this experiment has any chance of success. I hope you will stick with me.
Lessons learned:
- Anything that is too rigid doesn’t work for me.
- Anything that sucks time away from exercise & creative pursuits doesn’t work for me
- Weekly challenges don’t seem to be the best approach for me
- For Me = For Me (definitely not for everyone)
“Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius, and it is better to absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.”
Marilyn Monroe (1926 – 1962)
This week is dedicated to accepting all of those myriad imperfections that are part of our true identity and, yet, still believing there is a path to our healthiest body.
What are your perfect imperfections? What is your path?
To be perfect is to develop expanding imperfection.
Ethylios
I love to start things. I have so many baby blankets half crocheted. I have more blogs than I know what to do with. I used to love to set up fish tanks. I loved planning them. I had two fifty-gallon and one seventy-five-gallon tank in my house in Alaska and three small tanks besides.
And the novels I’ve started? We don’t even need to go there.
I love to start diets, too. I always have so much energy when I start.
I saw a guy on TV the other day who talked about how almost everything we do is done out of habit. He says we need to reward ourselves when we are making a new habit, so we should reward ourselves for exercising the first few weeks, by eating a small piece of chocolate or some other splurge food, to celebrate. Then when we start enjoying the exercise on its own, we can stop the treat. I think then that if I want to reward myself for staying on the right foods during weeks 12-24, I shall have to find some suitable daily reward that I can afford. It’s easy the first twelve weeks because the weight loss is the reward. Come week twelve the weight loss ends and it’s very hard to stay motivated. So there has to be some motivation for the plateau times.
My imperfection is that I get bored, I guess, and I lose excitement and vision, and I cave.