Fit to Live or Mid Life Crisis
Not sure were to start with this one, lately I have had some massive homesickness and have been trying to determine what the cause is, anyone that knows me knows that I am not that close to my family, (lots of drama, maybe I will share one day) so not sure why getting this feeling. I think I have narrowed it down a little, 1. Im approaching my 38th birthday and so am having a mid-life crisis, I have even been hankering over buying a new car, I believe this is one of the symptoms or 2. There have been lots of things going on in my life lately, lots of changes some good some not so good. I tend to think its the second, without going into details its been a stressful few months, new house, job changes, but I think everything came to a head for me a couple of weeks ago, something happened which made me take a hard look at myself, my life and my weight gain, my attitude in general. I have since decided to make some necessary changes, at first I was just going to lose a few pounds and get in some better shape, because holy cow the joints are starting to ache, I blame sitting at a desk all day. Anyway I digress after a couple of days dieting I had an epiphany, and yes I even know what that word means.
I realized that it’s not just about losing weight, you can lose weight and still not be happy and so I realized that I need to make some changes to every facet of my life, and no I am not losing the plot. There are certain things that right now I cannot change, I cannot change my job, not that I would want to, for all its bullcrap, I actually do enjoy it and let’s face it, its pretty much the same old same old wherever you go, but I can change my perspective on life. I have literally written down a couple of lists, one of things that I would like to do better in my life and one of goals and dreams that I have. I am not a bad person, but we all have tendencies to be selfish, cynical and involved in just staying ahead in life it is so easy to get caught up in the schedules of life, instead of stopping to literally smell the roses, but I realize that the past two years I have changed and I am not sure I like this new attitude and now is the time to not only lose some much needed weight, but change my whole attitude to life.
Now, on the dreams list, isn’t it strange how we push those to the side as we get (I hate to say the word older) but you know what I mean, when we were young we had fanciful dreams and goals, I myself along with my best mate Vicki were going to go to London meet Wham and impress them so much with our singing skills were going to replace their backup singers Shirley and Pepsi and then after a couple of records with Wham were going to break out on our own and be the next Banarama. (Please do not ask me who Wham or Banarama is? LOL go Google it) we practiced dance routines and sang into a hairbrush regularly in my attic bedroom. Don't laugh you know you have had crazy dreams too. What happened??
Ok so what is the point of all this or is Brit-Tan sipping at the booze as she is typing, the answer is no, I realized that I need to change my cynicism, try to treat people with a bit more compassion, I know I am notorious for having a suck it up and drive on attitude, I hate people that whine about their problems and don't do a damn thing about it, not sure that is going to change, but I am working on it, I want to get out more, join life instead of staying in this go to work, go home feed my face go to sleep rut. I want to be healthy, physically, mentally, financially and emotionally, isnt that what we all want, so why do we allow the rut to take over?
I have been working on a list of things I would like to accomplish, I highly recommend you do it too and join me, we all want to make changes and I absolutely refuse to bottom feed anymore, I cannot change the past but I can make subtle changes now to be prepared for life in all areas. I have a business idea that I have been playing around with for months but had no marketing plan so I am going to get to work on that, it’s time to stop digressing and get to it. I am not dieting i have decided that the D-word is a dirty word and we should all throw that out of our vocabulary. Instead we should make healthy choice, and I will talk about what I am doing some more later.
What about you, what do you want to do, want to change? Make your list of things you would like to change, and things you would love to do but never had the courage to tell anyone, just to show you how serious I am I am going to document it, this is my commitment to making changes, stop bottom feeding, if I don't like something I am going to change it, if I want to do something I am going to have a go. Stay tuned and I am going to share my list, follow me on twitter twitter.com/Britztwit if you want to share this journey, why don't you join in, we all have things we want to do, things we wish we could share but are afraid too. Make your list lets make some changes and maybe have a laugh along the way.
I realized that it’s not just about losing weight, you can lose weight and still not be happy and so I realized that I need to make some changes to every facet of my life, and no I am not losing the plot. There are certain things that right now I cannot change, I cannot change my job, not that I would want to, for all its bullcrap, I actually do enjoy it and let’s face it, its pretty much the same old same old wherever you go, but I can change my perspective on life. I have literally written down a couple of lists, one of things that I would like to do better in my life and one of goals and dreams that I have. I am not a bad person, but we all have tendencies to be selfish, cynical and involved in just staying ahead in life it is so easy to get caught up in the schedules of life, instead of stopping to literally smell the roses, but I realize that the past two years I have changed and I am not sure I like this new attitude and now is the time to not only lose some much needed weight, but change my whole attitude to life.
Now, on the dreams list, isn’t it strange how we push those to the side as we get (I hate to say the word older) but you know what I mean, when we were young we had fanciful dreams and goals, I myself along with my best mate Vicki were going to go to London meet Wham and impress them so much with our singing skills were going to replace their backup singers Shirley and Pepsi and then after a couple of records with Wham were going to break out on our own and be the next Banarama. (Please do not ask me who Wham or Banarama is? LOL go Google it) we practiced dance routines and sang into a hairbrush regularly in my attic bedroom. Don't laugh you know you have had crazy dreams too. What happened??
Ok so what is the point of all this or is Brit-Tan sipping at the booze as she is typing, the answer is no, I realized that I need to change my cynicism, try to treat people with a bit more compassion, I know I am notorious for having a suck it up and drive on attitude, I hate people that whine about their problems and don't do a damn thing about it, not sure that is going to change, but I am working on it, I want to get out more, join life instead of staying in this go to work, go home feed my face go to sleep rut. I want to be healthy, physically, mentally, financially and emotionally, isnt that what we all want, so why do we allow the rut to take over?
I have been working on a list of things I would like to accomplish, I highly recommend you do it too and join me, we all want to make changes and I absolutely refuse to bottom feed anymore, I cannot change the past but I can make subtle changes now to be prepared for life in all areas. I have a business idea that I have been playing around with for months but had no marketing plan so I am going to get to work on that, it’s time to stop digressing and get to it. I am not dieting i have decided that the D-word is a dirty word and we should all throw that out of our vocabulary. Instead we should make healthy choice, and I will talk about what I am doing some more later.
What about you, what do you want to do, want to change? Make your list of things you would like to change, and things you would love to do but never had the courage to tell anyone, just to show you how serious I am I am going to document it, this is my commitment to making changes, stop bottom feeding, if I don't like something I am going to change it, if I want to do something I am going to have a go. Stay tuned and I am going to share my list, follow me on twitter twitter.com/Britztwit if you want to share this journey, why don't you join in, we all have things we want to do, things we wish we could share but are afraid too. Make your list lets make some changes and maybe have a laugh along the way.
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