For the Good Days…

Several of my recent posts have been about goals and persevering and not letting the challenges get you down… but, what about on the good days? The days where everything is really really good and that’s it? No fallout, no frustration… Those days are amazing, aren’t they? They make you feel like you can do absolutely anything. You’re on a natural high.

I’m going to be a bubble buster… be careful of these days. Especially if you are still working towards goals. Temper them with a clear head. Remember your journey. Remember your goals. Remember where you are going and what made you start out to begin with.

These days can mean a hundred things for different people – like going and stuffing your face full of pasta because you’re feeling really good about your physical progress or whatever it is you are working towards. I’m not saying don’t do it I’m just reminding you to be careful. I know those days too well. Your boyfriend is at the gym for two hours and you’re sitting at home like…

(Don’t be that person. You’re gonna regret it later, I promise.)

Remember me talking about trying to master the wheel pose this month? Oh gosh… last night at yoga was so amazing. I really need to either recruit someone to get this excited with me or I need to find some more yogi friends. I DID IT! It was for like three seconds but I did it. And, you know what? I wasn’t struggling because of my pitiful upper body strength, I was struggling because of my back. It felt like I got lit on fire but I know I can do it and know what I need to adjust.

What I thought was stopping me wasn’t stopping me at all. So, I’ve learned. I’m adjusting and tweaking and repositioning myself. To be better. To push myself.

I could have stayed at home and not gone to yoga. I could have gone out to dinner. Or a movie. Or laid at home and Netflixed. But, I didn’t. I went outside and moved my body for 3.5 miles and then took my happy self to yoga. Because, that’s what progress is about. It’s about the hard days and the plateaus but it’s really about the GOOD DAYS when it’s tempting to skip a day. Or, to stop. Or, to be complacent.

“The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.” – Michelangelo Buonarroti     

until next time… xoxo, patty lauren