Day 34: If I can do this I can do that.What I learned from writing every day
No matter how I feel, how tired, or stressed, I write every day. It's a non-negotiable. Not quite a ritual, it's a process that challenges and teaches me. Finding my voice. Sitting at my computer and bleeding.
I started blogging to write about my weight loss journey. My goal was to lose 20 lbs in 8 weeks and today is the deadline. Maybe I lost 5 lbs. The amount became unimportant. The journey became everything.
Learning how to eat healthy for my life style, portion control, the importance of daily exercise on so many levels, getting plenty of rest, drinking lots of water, nurturing my mind with good books, audio tapes, and music, connecting with family and friends and making new friends/contacts, choosing to take the road less traveled and not the easy way out.
The writing has pulled this all together for me. My energy gets divided between all these important areas in my life depending on the day. What's been consistent is my writing. It's taught me discipline, which is not a word I thought I would love, and yet it's exactly what this journey is about and what I needed.
If you have discipline and patience, you have the skills to be successful in anything you want to achieve.