Day 123 - The Gray Between Was and Is
Added 2018-06-06 10:46:58 +0000 UTCIn this vlog, Edward shares where he's at in his journey, stuck between the consequences of his old choices and the determination of his new choices.
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Don't apologize for the length of your videos--your words are valuable and you will express them at the pace need to :) I'm stuck in a place right now where I tried a bunch of changes to make our lives more...self-sustaining? More on auto-pilot anyway. I thought that if I decluttered, if I set up good habits, if I established meal plans or even bought meal plans (letting someone else take care of that for me), that the work part of my life would get easier and let me find the time again for things I really enjoy. Instead I got totally derailed because researching things around my son's one betta fish pet turned into me reigniting my aquarium passion, turned into my buying several aquariums, which means I have to re-arrange our living room, which means I have been spending hours messing with that instead of maintaining the things which were supposed to make our lives easier, meaning we've eaten out a lot more this week and... *lol* Anyway, you gave me something to think about (as always), and I'm going to try to pick up the balls I was juggling from wherever they rolled off to, and try again (as always).
LadyGrndr(Lacey S)
2018-06-12 15:25:33 +0000 UTCGreat advice! This is what I've been trying to do for myself and it's been working. My routine has never gotten to perfection and I've come to the acceptance that it never will because that's not realistic for anyone and because life is about continuous growth anyway. I like this quote by Robert Collier: "Success is the sum of small efforts repeated day in and day out." I've been writing it in my planner to remind myself that I can't do it all in one day and that's ok.
Sara Ebberts
2018-06-08 12:53:30 +0000 UTCYou are most welcome! Big hugs- E
How to ADHD
2018-06-07 00:29:40 +0000 UTCInsomnia crawled into bed with me about 1:30 this morning and pushed me out of the bed about 3 something. I was cruising Twitter and trying to make myself read a book for a while when my phone notified me the Day 123 video had been posted. I clicked right over and my mind kinda blew because it felt like this was just for me, both in the moment and bigger-picture. These insights are enormously helpful, you've saved me at least an hour with my therapist and probably more. Even thinking of change as being something I am working toward -- "in a couple of years things will be better in ways x, y, z" -- was frustrating because it was less about what I do today and more about that desire for everything to be different, and that made it hard to see what I need to do today. Your thoughts have completely changed that. Thanks!
Kristina D Knight
2018-06-06 15:18:46 +0000 UTC
