My mother is going to be appalled by this title, but I always love using that phrase. Mostly to see the shocked looks people give me. hahaha.
It’s really so easy to fall into a routine. You get up, you do your usually morning bit, you go to work, you come home, you eat dinner, you go to bed. And you get up and do it all over again the next day.
FOOD INSPIRED REFLECTION
Randomly, what made me think of this was making my hubby and I’s favorite buffalo chicken dip this past holiday weekend. Yes, buffalo chicken dip inspired deep introspection. Because food = life.
But I digress. The introspection began when I realized that we always make this dip for holidays or get togethers. Mostly because it’s SUPER easy to make, plus it’s unreasonably delicious.
And that makes sense – with busy lives, you don’t want to have to worry about crafting some ridiculously hard dip. This one is hardly any work and it’s always a crowd pleaser.
But that is where being convenient sometimes gets in the way. I began to wonder – did I even really WANT this dip? Or was I making it because that’s what we always did?
And that led me to realize why I have had such a hard time getting my challenges truly started.
BREAKING OUT OF ROUTINE
Because it’s so much easier to follow my routine instead of making the harder effort to break out of it and actually DO all the things I asked people to challenge me to.
And that was why I wanted to do these challenges in the first place. Because after being made so ridiculously uncomfortable during the shitastic year I had last year, it ended up leading me to finding out who I really was.
So I thought that if after a few horrible experiences that made me uncomfortable, I was able to grow so much – then what would happen if I had a ton of uncomfortable experiences, one after the other?
PROMISE & PARTING THOUGHTS
Here’s my promise to myself – I will create a schedule for these challenges, so I can truly plan them out and get them done.
And even better, I found some inspiration in one of my favorite book: You Are A Badass by Jen Sincero.
I have read this book through so many times that I have tabbed it to death, and filled it with highlighting and notes.
Whenever I am in need of a good kick in the ass, I open the book up to one of those tabs, and it always gives me an excellent nugget of truth.
When I did that today, I got this:
“When you make a no-nonsense decision, you sign up fully and keep moving forward toward your goal, regardless of what’s flung in your path. And stuff will most definitely get flung, which is why making the decision is so crucial–this shit is not for sissies. The moment it gets hard or expensive or puts you at risk of looking like a moron, if you haven’t made the decision, you’ll quit. If it wasn’t uncomfortable, everyone would be out there all in love with their fabulous lives.”
There you go folks. How perfectly fitting.
I am signing up fully for this journey, here and now!
Catch ya’ll on the flip side.
Always,
Amanda