A Healthy Lifestyle??

So, here we go again. I am joining Weight Watchers tonight! I have been thinking about several things I "should" do to create a healthy lifestyle.... lose weight, work out, quit smoking. These things consume me until I do something about them every few months. Now while, I am happy with the fact that I always do something, I am not happy with the fact that it is short lived! I wrote down this morning my constant cycle...start a program, do it for a while, then something comes up and I quit little by little. A few months go by and I think I "should" do that again. IT SUCKS!!! And it sucks not only for me but also, the wonderful people/dogs around me. So, I am left thinking "how do I stop the insanity?" Hmmm...I think I have a book for that. Among several books I have on the subject of eating healthy, being happy with yourself, yadda, yadda, yadda!

So, today I created the possibility of being BEAUTIFUL! I think that if something is beautiful you will want to take care of it, hmmm....there's another book to buy! We'll see how that goes. AND, being BEAUTIFUL, I will keep that possibility for as long as it works :)

XOXOXOXO
Gina

Welcome Home

Let's see, it's been 2 months since I have written and in that time we have moved across the country! Yeah, we are finally in Pennsylvania. Now that we have been here for a few weeks, I thought I would write again. I have many thoughts going through my head about meeting up with old friends, my health and well-being, being a mom, etc. I have a lot of time available right now! Sometimes, I feel I have so many thoughts rolling around in my head that I am not sure what to do or where to begin. I guess the one thing that keeps coming up is developing some sort of daily habit around this...writing each day...meditating...walking...I guess maybe all there is to do is pick one and see what happens. And today I am going to do something healthy for myself. I think I'll go get some healthy groceries. First, let's look up some healthy recipes :) See you soon....
xoxoxo
Gina

The Art of Worrying

It's been a while since I have written and we have been keeping busy. We are moving to Pennsylvania in early July. It's been an exciting process with Gary, Jacob & I creating how it is going to work, what we will do once we get there, what we need to do to get there, etc. And sometimes in the midst of all this unknown, I worry. I worry about many different things...no need to list them here :)

Last night Gary & I had a conversation about moving, jobs etc. and I started to see how my worrying is not conducive to creating what we want. This morning it hit me...

What do I get out of worrying...I don't have to be responsible, I am justified, sad and distracted.

Then I looked at what worrying costs me...Peace, Joy, Fun, Love, Sharing, Creating.

So, I say I choose the costs rather than the payoff. And so it is. Today I am creating being present. Present to all the costs.

XOXOXOXOXO
Gina

Creating...

I opened "Excuse me your life is waiting" and started reading about money. How to attract this stuff into your life. I haven't quite finished the chapter however, she brought up a very interesting idea about how to attract it. Make up a story of how it will be, how you will feel once you have it and start talking or writing about it as reality now! So, I started this conversation with myself about how it feels to have enough money to pay all our bills. Here is some of that conversation:

It's so great now that we have enough money coming in to pay all our bills. It is so relaxing to pay bills knowing that we have enough. And after we pay all those bills we still have enough left over to plan something to do together. Being together as a family is the most amazing adventure! We laugh, play and just enjoy each others company. I am so excited we are going camping this weekend and then after that we are headed on a cruise. Cruising is the most relaxing vacation ever! I completely enjoy the freedom to just do whatever whenever I feel like it.

XOXOXOXO
Gina

Todays Thoughts

Yesterday I saw a position at work that I am interested in. Once again, I had it all planned out in my mind how it was going to go. Everyone would be supportive and then I would apply this weekend. Not what happened. What I realized is that underneath it all I was concerned about how my boss would react. She has been developing me for another position. And given the turn over rate of tellers, I can see why she might be upset.

So, what I created was the possibility of her & I supporting each other to create our own joy! And when I did that, I could see that it would be wonderful to create that with others in my life as well. Wow, what would a life look like that had an intention on creating joy?? It's funny I don't know but, I would like to find out! I am creating JOY!

XOXOXOXOXO
Gina

The Law of Attraction

I am reading a book, called "Excuse me your life is waiting" by Lynne Grabhorn. A wonderful friend of mine gave it to me. It is an amazing book looking at the law of attraction. Similar to the Secret with a more down to earth feel. I started the 30 days to breakthrough in the book. The first 10 days I am thinking of a Flip-Switch - something I like about me that I can think of when I am not feeling particularly positive. Todays is I am understanding. Yesterday was I am playful (I loved that one!!!).

So, here is what I am seeing out of doing this - it is making a huge difference in how my day goes. Yesterday I brought that to mind during several situations where I was not feeling positive and it made a huge difference. I asked myself How can I bring play to this situation? The other thing I realized is that I am all these things I am thinking however, not all the time. Bringing them to the present is a wonderful way to create amazing days. Knowing that on some level I am all the things I create and more!!

XOXOXOXOXOXO
Gina

This one left me smiling...check it out.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lp0IWv8QZY