𝑰 π‘¨π’Ž 𝒂 𝑺𝒖𝒄𝒄𝒆𝒔𝒔!

I did not finish my list today.

I did not eat on my protocol today.

I did not get out and hike today, like I had planned.

I did not write this blog at 6:00 this morning, as scheduled.

Yet, I am a success. This is not where my mind went initially. I indulged in my habitual criticism, judgement, beating on (my)self, what I now call BS. I noticed all this. I noticed how awful it felt. I noticed I wanted to eat that cookie dough ice cream.

Why? I’m confused because ice cream isn’t my go-to, not my habit anymore. What was the ice cream going to do for me?

Make me feel good. Give me a hit a dopamine that I thought I needed. Because I didn’t feel good.

Yet, I now know not feeling good is something I produce with my thoughts, my attitude, my beliefs.

Feeling better is wholly within my power. I remember, then see it is my idea that I SHOULD finish my list that feels awful. That I π‘ β„Žπ‘œπ‘’π‘™π‘‘’𝑣𝑒 eaten on protocol. That I π‘ β„Žπ‘œπ‘’π‘™π‘‘’𝑣𝑒 hiked. And written this blog earlier.

And then I just decide that my life is perfect. I decide that I don’t want to fight with the past any more.

I decide I am a success. Not in the future, when I do all my β€œshould’s”. But right now. Right here.

Lucky me.

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