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Make Your Challenges Work For You, Not Against You!
Knowing what your challenges are, and working with them to get on anyway, that’s a way to success!
I am a person living with a disability, a chronic illness, but I feel this to be only a minor aspect of my life. I am properly medicated, and I eat a good healthy diet, most of the time, thanks largely to my own lovely husband who is also my carer, and of course thanks to the training I did when I was a volunteer Community Foodie, some years ago, which I think was probably further back than I first thought. Oh well, life is always moving on …
So I eat good food, treat myself a little bit, but never too much, and I try (but sometimes fail), to do some exercise most days. I won’t blame myself for not exercising every day, or even every week, instead, I will think on ways to do more physical things, and hopefully I may get back into my once favoured exercise program — which is doing Wii Fit exercises, with the handy machine we have hooked up to a TV, for that very purpose.
I know that I get on better, if I exercise. I feel more ‘able’ I get a dose of those endorphins, the feel good hormones, but I some days, I just don’t do it. Why is this, I wonder, simple laziness? Probably.
