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On my last blog post I touched a bit on motivation.  Day 1 is always the easiest for me because I set a plan, schedule a date, and voila!  I make it happen.  Tackling day 2, 3, and beyond is a new animal entirely.  I have become the queen of excuses and believe me when I say it, if I convince myself to NOT do something, there isn't a shred of guilt remaining to make me regret.  Tuesday was my second day of my fitness challenge and also the day I was scheduled to work on shipment.  Shipment was postponed a day and I was subsequently called off work.  Perfect day to work out, right?

Not so much.

I spent the majority of the day working on tasks I have put off for ventures that I am trying to earn money for.  I wrote a number of blogs (always hoping that someone, someday, may feel compelled to click on an ad I have posted and I can earn a few pennies off of it), compiled a number of pictures that may look easy, but is very time consuming, wrote a few reviews.  I also spent time updating my social media outlets as a means of free advertising for my art and writing.  I am severely behind on both of these and I also spent a bit of time writing my next book (which is waaaay behind schedule). 

This is the part where I lose track of time.  Before I knew it, the entire day was gone and I had not only forgotten to cook and eat dinner, I also successfully managed to maneuver no work-out for the day.

I am not one to skip meals entirely.  I usually eat when I remember and this sometimes leads to very strange dinner hours.  This is something that I need to change and I may have to micro-manage my life a bit more.  Micro-managing stifles creativity so I think the solution may be to prepare snacks well in advance and graze all day.  When I have solved this problem, I will let you know!

The good news is, on the day in question, I did cook a very healthy meal, spent time after for it to digest and completed a work out before bed!  All in all, two days were successful.  Yesterday, on the hand, not so much.  It was shipment day and though the shipment was small (and I had some good helpers), by the time I made it home I was not in the mood even for yoga.  I'm considering it my off-day (we all need one every once in a while).

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