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Every Battle Won is a Victory

Today, everything that could have gone wrong, did.

I had planned on getting a good night's rest, but my daughter kept waking me up all through the night, complaining of aches and pains.

In the morning, I felt tired and had the runs, courtesy of my kids and their gastric flu. I popped some pills and left it at that.

I had half a mind not to even step out the door - what would it matter if I missed a day of exercise, a day of work?

I immediately nipped that thought in the bud - negative automatic thought is second-nature and seductive. Powering through your natural responses and reactions takes a certain level of calm and determination.

So I told myself to fight through the sick/tired feelings. Even when I had to turn back and head home to switch my pair of pants out (my helper had left incomplete stitches and a pin in the one I was wearing), I had to remind myself it was okay!

Even when I found myself sitting at the coffeeshop, trying to book a cab and not getting any luck - the thought crossed my mind that maybe source/the universe/today's energy didn't want me heading out today, maybe this was his/her/its way of telling me to stay home - I had to think to myself 'I will never adopt good habits or grow and develop, if I constantly give in to my less healthy desires: desires that serve to cheat, not benefit me and my health'.

I made active and deliberate choices today, to do better and be better.

And God damn, I'm feeling pretty proud!
#Flexing

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