Healthy Body, Healthy Mind

January 21, 2010 - Now that I am moving on the right path towards a healthy body, maybe not thinner, but definitly healthier, I thought it was time to take care of my mind. Often times when I talk to people they look at me with that 'Doe in the headlights look', to which I reply, "if you think it looks crazy from your side, you should see it from my side".

So here is my plan. Learn something new everyday. While I think this is great I am a little concerned that for everything I learn new, I will lose something I knew that is old. I mean how much can my mind hold. So what did I learn today? I learned that you can be on the phone, working your e-mail, respond to 4 instant messages, wave to the person who passes your office, and eat your lunch, all at the same time. Find something to be thankful for daily. So today, besides the obvious of being thankful for family and friends, by 6:30a.m. I could already count 3 things: 1) that although I stepped into a freezing shower (had the water turned to cold, oops I am already starting to lose some old information) I did not slip, fall and break a leg. Nope, I merely jumped two feet in the air and slammed my head into the faucet. 2) I only spilled coffee on my pants today and not my shirt. Since the pants are black, no one will ever know, although when I walk by people today they may get a sudden urge for Duncan Donuts. And 3) Dispite the warnings of a big ice storm we were supposed to get last night, news folks say we got very little ice, only a couple of patches near bridges and a few other isolated places. That was great news, but they forgot to mention that my driveway was one of the isolated places that had ice patches. I learned that while taking out my garbage and ice skating, without skates, to the end of my driveway. The garbage can beat me. It nearly ran me over sliding down the driveway, across the street, and into the 4 feet of snow lined on curb. Good time retrieving the can. And lastly, learn to laugh at myself, everyone else does.

I thought this change of mind would be hard to adjust to, that I would not be able to stick to this mindset. But, not so. I have learned more than I ever cared to about healthy living, I am grateful that I can still walk, dispite my brutal workouts, and I laugh at myself regularly. In fact I really crack myself up.