What are you choosing?

Another Year Gone By.

365 days we wished we had done something to take control of our life. Every day we woke up and thought to ourselves “Today is the day” and then as quickly as that thought came, it disappeared. It disappeared behind bad food choices and long hours on the couch aimlessly flipping through channels on the television. It disappeared behind the relentless voices in our head that say ‘you can’t” or “you never will” or “what’s the point”. It disappeared behind the eyes that stared back at us from the mirror…

Another Year Begins Again.

It’s a new day for us. Today IS the day we are going to stand up and face those demons and with a little perseverance we ARE going to make better food choices. It doesn’t have to be all or nothing. Just something small that we know makes a difference. Maybe we drink a glass of water first thing in the morning instead of reaching for that diet coke. Maybe we cut our consumption meat in half and double up on vegetables. Maybe we take the stairs half way up to our 9 – 5 cubicle job and ride the elevator the rest of the way. Maybe instead of wishing the person in the mirror would tell us what to do, we’ll take the initiative and tell the person in the mirror what we’re going to do.

It’s scary being in a world where fast food is advertised every minute on some damn channel and on every corner in our neighborhoods. Within walking distance of my home there is a Kentucky Fried Chicken, Jack in the Box, Little Cesar’s Pizza and Baskin Robbins ice cream joint (in fact, they are all in the same complex). Not to mention all of the small convenient stores that wouldn’t know what a piece of fruit is if I smacked them in their face with one. It’s scary being in a world where watching five hours of television is the norm and one out of four of us are carrying around enough weight to be considered obese.

But want to know what’s even more scarier?

NOT LIVING.

What if we’re not living up to our potential? What if there is something so great out there waiting for us to discover it and yet we’ll never know because we’re afraid to stand up and take control? What if instead of spending another year wishing we “had” taken control we get out there and take back what we deserve to have: A life worth living? What if right now we look at that person staring back at us in the mirror and we proclaim “I may not love myself enough to make all the changes but I LOVE MYSELF ENOUGH TO START SOMEWHERE” and then do it. We don’t need to hide behind fatty foods and XXL shirts any longer. We don’t have to hide by sitting on the couch day in and day out and wonder when enough will be enough.

Enough is Enough Right Now!

Another Year is Going By

At this very moment, we can choose to live in fear and be emotionally dead to our surroundings or we can choose to WAKE UP and be free of our past and take one step toward our future. At this very moment, we can throw up our hands, surrender and live in a darkness that chokes the very life we deserve to live. Or we can firmly plant our feet, hands balled into fists and stare down that darkness until a light shines from us so bright that it paves the way in front of us and shows us that there is possibility.

What are You Choosing Today?