195.5. It would have been 196.5 but I went back to bed! Today I am going to eat whatever I feel like and do what I want. Starting tomorrow on getting serious about this. And I am serious. I am excited! Happy! Oh man, if you have never fought with depression, say a prayer of thankfulness. I am thankful mine is not worse than it is. I am very grateful that the sun came out and I am once again, feeling good.
It is 67 degrees, sunny, beautiful and I am glad to be alive! I am a bit sore. Rode my horse yesterday in a lesson. Wow, have not been on a horse prior to June in many years! Saddle sore is good (as long as you can still walk). I remember when I was a little girl, I LOVED being saddle sore! It meant it was spring and I was riding horses! I have always been a little bit strange I guess.
OK, going out on a major limb here. I need your help to keep me accountable.... Do I really want to do this... It is a bit scary....
I am going to exercise in the morning! I want those sore muscles. They tell you that you are alive and improving! I don't know if it was depression, too much weight or what, but until now, this would not have happened. It is time. Keep me on track.
I also need your help with my business! Selling Real Estate. I am nearly out of listings and need more. Along with your help to keep me on track with the exercise, please help me be accountable for improving my business! I will post how many calls/personal contacts I make 5 days a week. My goal is 20 per day. And if you know of anyone thinking of buying or selling, please contact me! 208-403-5800 or lani@ida.net! That will be a contact!
I will also share a major goal and a major shift in my life. Please excuse this if I shared it before. But it is life changing for me. Never have we had a family vacation. All those folks who went once a year, went to Disney land and so forth, not something even possible in my mind. And we never one time did it.
So I made a major leap and decided to take all the kids and the grand kids to Disney Land next year! My first dream was on a cruise. That ended abruptly when I figured out it would be about $5,000 per person with air fare and so forth. At this point, we are talking 13 people with the spouses and grand kids. So we settled on Disney Land. Ron asked me earlier this month if we would ever take the kids and grand kids to Lagoon. I told him if he had come up with that question a few months ago, it could have saved us thousands! After looking at the real costs involved I figured I need an extra $10,000 in the bank for this trip. (Large gulp). Anyone remember what the Real Estate business is doing?
Something that was very humbling and still makes me cry. I was not going to tell the kids. I was afraid they would roll their eyes and pretty much say "we will believe it when we see it". I was afraid. However, my excitement at such a huge deal got the best of me and I told them. Their reaction was they started planning! Not a doubt, not a laugh, nothing but doing what they need to do to make their part work! Wow!!!!
So this I share with you. We tend to under value who we are and who we are to our family. STOP IT!
The only person in this world stopping me (you) from accomplishing anything I (you) want, is me (you). That is including Disney Land, weight loss, job improvement, better family relations, you add what you want.
Yay, Mom! I am so excited for your blog. And I'm REALLY excited that we are getting healthy together. You have been such an inspiration to me. Thank you for showing me it is possible.
ReplyDeleteI wish I had someone to send to you for Real Estate, because you are amazing! I know you will accomplish great things.
You are wrong about one thing, though. We did have vacations. Maybe they weren't packaged up like other people's vacations, but we went places together and did stuff. I remember camping trips, Drivers' Picnics, and the annual California drive. We went to Salt Lake to see Great Grandma and Grandpa Rice and to Wyoming to stay for Christmas with Grampy's family. Sure, it would have been fun to go to the beach every year, but if we had spent money on that kind of stuff, how would we have had voice lessons and choir dresses, Girls' Camp and Girl Scout Camp, payment for grades and a hundred bucks to spend on Back-to-School any way we wanted? Give yourself a little credit.
Besides, because of the way I was raised, I look at some of my friends now that DO take a Disney vacation every year, and I shake my head. They spend so much money on it when they are hurting for money the rest of the time. (Like renting an 800 sq ft 3 bedroom home with four kids because they can't afford to buy a house.) And the Disney trip has come to symbolize their family togetherness, as if Disney is the reason for the fun instead of being with each other.
I am REALLY looking forward to this trip, but I'm not sad that we haven't gone on a lavish trip every year. I'm just happy that we get to have fun with each other!
Thank you Sandi. Really means a lot to me. I don't know that I would do it differently if I could do it over. You just always wish you would have done it better. I am so glad you feel the way you do. Thank you.
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