O.K. who am I kidding? It doesn't matter to me if it Friday, Monday or any other day of the week. My day's are all filled in the same. Seven days a week I'm looking for work and working on my life style change. All this effort in itself feels like a job. I mean, I spend hours a day either taking sessions with a job coach and looking for work and every other waking hour of the day thinking about how to eat, exercise and stay strong. This is actually more work that a job. Too bad I can't get paid for all this effort.
Alright, after yesterday no one deserves another rant for the week so I'll keep today's post short. Yesterday was a good day, all went well and according to plan. I stayed in my program plan and there were no real problems or issues that arose. It was a really good day.
My real challenge will come this weekend. My wife and I have been invited to a friends house for dinner. This is certainly different than previous challenges. Either I'm at home or maybe a restaurant and under both conditions I'm in control of my choices and to some degree the environment. The real questions here come up because I'm really not in control. Not of anything, the meal, the drinks, etc. I know I can limit the quantities I eat and always drink water but one never wants to insult the hostess. I am sure that in the end I'll do fine, after I am already thinking abut it. Maybe I'm even putting to much though into it all.
Here is an interesting fact about the whole dinner out experience for tomorrow. Our friend, the one who invited us for dinner does follow along with my blog. You know who you are! Yesterday, she and my wife were exchanging emails confirming dinner for Saturday night. Somewhere in the exchange she asked if there was anything she could consider when putting the meal together that might be good for me and my life style change. WoW!!! This was something I never expected. It's still a challenge day to day getting the family on board and this is from outside that immediate circle. Could it be that writing all this down is effecting others as well as myself. It certainly shows me that you can get support from anywhere. I don't know why this is such a surprise to me. To begin with she's been a great supportive friend for over 20+ years. Perhaps we should all look outside our immediate circle (family) for that support. This course I have been taking to find work talks about Networking and how to do it. In the program we discuss that you look to everyone you know to help find a job because people want to help each but just don't know how. The solution is tell them how and if they can they will. Could it be that simple for the other things in our lives like a lifestyle change. Do we just tell everyone how they can help us and if they can they will. Do we expand our circle of influence to include them? After all the hardest thing to do is ask for help. Most people don't like asking for help. If we all just consider the end results and not our egos, we might all just reach our goals in everything we do.
I guess I was wrong, It's not going to be a short post after all. I promise this is the end.
Have a good one, keep strong and don't let little set backs keep you from your goals.
Have a great weekend everyone,
Looper
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