Friday! Chickens!

Well folks, there’s some possibly very good news in my future. Don’t want to count chickens, don’t want to jinx anything, but lets just all cross our fingers and hope for the best shall we?

Don’t you love that the secret blog is back? I know you do.

Not that I don’t like counting chickens. I do, I love counting chickens, so nothing against chickens.

It’s Friday, the good news, the crappy weather, all of it is coming together to make for a very cozy happy weekend. I have nothing to do, no where to be, no one to see. It’s all up to me this weekend, so that’s a plus.

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about self discipline and immediate gratification. I’m usually one to go straight for gratification and stay away from discipline, but I’ve been getting better about it. John and I were talking about how when you learn to control your weight, it helps you with your discipline on other things. You see you have control, you learn the real meaning of consequences, whether good or bad and it absolutely takes self discipline.

But I find, even as I get better at it, that there are so many little tricks I play with myself to get me where I need to be.

“I’ll go to the gym, but I’m taking it easy today”. Then once I get there, I jam, but I tell myself that, just to get me there.

“If you go to the gym today, you can have a brownie later”. This one is classic and needs no explanation.

“If you go on a long walk now, you don’t have to leave the house for the rest of the day”

“If you get out of bed now, you can go back to it later” This is my favorite.

So yeah, little tricks, but they work usually and the more I do what I am supposed to do, the easier it becomes to do it.

TGIF everyone.

Oh…and a private message to Chid…heard you met the mouse. Tee hee.